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Birthday June 8, 1791

• The temperature on June 8, 1791 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: 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
  • 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 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
  • August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
  • September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
  • September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
  • December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1745 » Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer († 1818)
• 1757 » Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal († 1824)
• 1788 » Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky († 1869)
• 1810 » Robert Schumann, German composer and critic († 1856)
• 1829 » John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator († 1896)
• 1831 » Thomas J. Higgins, Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient († 1917)