Ancestors Gootzen » Anna Geertrudis Schloetels (1791-1836)

Birthday April 18, 1791

• The temperature on April 18, 1791 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. 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.
  • 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.
  • May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
  • 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.
  • September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
  • December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1771 » Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg († 1820)
• 1772 » David Ricardo, British economist and politician († 1823)
• 1794 » William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams († 1863)
• 1797 » Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France († 1877)
• 1813 » James McCune Smith, African-American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author († 1865)
• 1819 » Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist († 1874)