Wiggins-Mergenthaler Family Tree » Elisabetha Brecht (1793-????)

Birthday April 22, 1793

• The temperature on April 22, 1793 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. 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 1793: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 6 » During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
  • May 23 » Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
  • July 9 » The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery after the passage of the Act at 25 years of age.
  • October 12 » The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • December 9 » New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
  • December 26 » Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeats Austria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1757 » Alessandro Rolla, Italian violinist and composer († 1841)
• 1766 » Germaine de Staël, French author and political philosopher († 1817)
• 1812 » Solomon Caesar Malan, Swiss-English orientalist († 1894)
• 1816 » Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general († 1897)
• 1830 » Emily Davies, British suffragist and educator, co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University
• 1832 » Julius Sterling Morton, American journalist and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Agriculture († 1902)