The temperature on December 29, 1789 was about 9.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
February 4 » George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
June 17 » In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
June 20 » Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
August 28 » William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
September 29 » The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
Christening day January 24, 1790
The temperature on January 24, 1790 was about 3.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
May 29 » Rhode Island becomes the last of North America's original Thirteen Colonies to ratify the Constitution and become one of the United States.
July 9 » The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic fleet.
July 31 » The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
August 2 » The first United States Census is conducted.
December 22 » The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Alexander Suvorov and his Russian armies.
December 26 » Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
Day of marriage December 13, 1821
The temperature on December 13, 1821 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken winderig. 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).
April 10 » Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
May 5 » Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
June 14 » Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, bringing the 300 year old Sudanese kingdom to an end.
June 24 » The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
August 24 » The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
November 10 » Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia.
Day of death February 25, 1876
The temperature on February 25, 1876 was about 5.7 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%. Source: KNMI
From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
February 26 » Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
June 25 » Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
November 23 » Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
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