Kolks Family Tree » Wessel Theissen (1789-< 1795)

Birthday January 19, 1789

• The temperature on January 19, 1789 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1789: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 21 » The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth by William Hill Brown, is printed in Boston.
  • January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
  • July 14 » Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
  • September 11 » Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
  • September 24 » The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.
  • September 29 » The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

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• 1788 » Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician († 1874)
• 1790 » Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet and academic († 1855)
• 1798 » Auguste Comte, French economist, sociologist, and philosopher († 1857)
• 1807 » Robert E. Lee, American general and academic († 1870)
• 1808 » Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and author († 1887)
• 1809 » Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic († 1849)