Family tree De Backer - Evers » Maria Jan Janse van Bree (-1789)

Day of death August 13, 1789

• The temperature on August 13, 1789 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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
  • February 4 » George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
  • April 28 » Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
  • April 30 » On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
  • June 17 » In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
  • July 12 » In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
  • August 28 » William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1721 » Jacques Lelong, French priest and author (b. 1665)
• 1744 » John Cruger, Danish-American businessman and politician, 39th Mayor of New York City (b. 1678)
• 1749 » Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (b. 1719)
• 1766 » Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (b. 1726)
• 1795 » Ahilyabai Holkar, Queen of Indore (b. 1725)
• 1826 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (b. 1781)