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Birthday January 2, 1791

• The temperature on January 2, 1791 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken dampig. 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
  • May 3 » The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • July 14 » The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
  • August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
  • September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
  • October 1 » First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
  • November 4 » Northwest Indian War: The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1777 » Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor and educator († 1857)
• 1803 » Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic († 1869)
• 1822 » Rudolf Clausius, Polish-German physicist and mathematician († 1888)
• 1827 » Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician († 1914)
• 1833 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician († 1893)
• 1836 » Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author († 1917)