Families Paternotte, Horst van Nieuw-Loosdrecht, Post van Zwolle en Persoon » Hugues François Joseph PATERNOSTRE (± 1710-1791)

Day of death July 7, 1791

• The temperature on July 7, 1791 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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 1791: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
  • February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
  • March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
  • March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
  • August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
  • September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)