February 12 » Georgia Day: Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, by settling at Savannah.
May 29 » The right of settlers in New France to enslave natives is upheld at Quebec City.
July 30 » The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
November 23 » The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
Day of death February 16, 1789
The temperature on February 16, 1789 was about 3.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
April 20 » George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
June 20 » Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
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.
October 5 » French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.
November 20 » New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
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