Family tree du Pont » Joannes Matthias Aerts (1791-????)

Birthday January 9, 1791

• The temperature on January 9, 1791 was about 4.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. 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.
  • August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
  • 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.
  • September 9 » Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
  • September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1773 » Cassandra Austen, English painter and illustrator († 1845)
• 1778 » Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi, Turkish Ney player and composer († 1846)
• 1811 » Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English journalist and author († 1856)
• 1818 » Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer († 1881)
• 1819 » James Francis, English-Australian businessman and politician, 9th Premier of Victoria († 1884)
• 1822 » Carol Benesch, Czech-Romanian architect, designed the Peleș Castle († 1896)