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.).
April 21 » George Washington's reception at Trenton is hosted by the Ladies of Trenton as he journeys to New York City for his first inauguration.
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 7 » The United States Department of War is established.
September 11 » Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
Day of death April 19, 1871
The temperature on April 19, 1871 was about 17.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. Source: KNMI
From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
March 22 » In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
March 27 » The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
March 28 » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
July 2 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
November 10 » Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
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