The temperature on October 10, 1789 was about 9.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
February 4 » George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
April 7 » Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
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 27 » The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
September 11 » Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
October 5 » French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.
Day of death February 18, 1792
The temperature on February 18, 1792 was about -7 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw. Source: KNMI
April 20 » France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
April 21 » Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
April 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
October 3 » A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
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.
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