Kelson Burbank Genealogy » Elizabeth Massey Massie (1791-????)

Birthday October 14, 1791

• The temperature on October 14, 1791 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. 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 10 » The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
  • March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
  • June 21 » King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
  • July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
  • August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
  • September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1784 » Ferdinand VII of Spain († 1833)
• 1791 » Friedrich Parrot, Baltic German naturalist († 1841)
• 1801 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope († 1883)
• 1806 » Preston King, American lawyer and politician († 1865)
• 1824 » Adolphe Monticelli, French painter († 1886)
• 1840 » Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic († 1868)