January 8 » The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
March 10 » An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories.
July 11 » Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
August 5 » Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
Day of burial February 12, 1789
The temperature on February 12, 1789 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
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.
April 20 » George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
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.
July 9 » In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
August 26 » The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
October 2 » The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Cees Goossens, "Family tree Goossens (Hoogeloon en omstreken)", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-familie-goossens/I8019.php : accessed May 20, 2024), "Cornelia Hendrick Corstiaens (????-1789)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.