February 20 » The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
April 2 » The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
June 4 » Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
Christening day October 8, 1792
The temperature on October 8, 1792 was about 5.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed.
March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
April 20 » France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
August 13 » King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
September 21 » French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.
October 29 » Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
Day of death September 10, 1845
The temperature on September 10, 1845 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: helder dauw dampig. Source: KNMI
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De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
March 11 » Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
March 13 » Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
May 19 » Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
July 4 » Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.
September 9 » Possible start of the Great Potato Famine.
September 23 » The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
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