FutureHistory » Mattheus Matheus Pauwels (1723-1789)

Day of death July 7, 1789

• The temperature on July 7, 1789 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • July 15 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
  • September 24 » The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.

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• 1730 » Olivier Levasseur, French pirate (b. 1690)
• 1758 » Marthanda Varma, Rani of Attingal (b. 1706)
• 1764 » William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War (b. 1683)
• 1776 » Jeremiah Markland, English scholar and academic (b. 1693)
• 1790 » François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher and author (b. 1721)
• 1816 » Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1751)