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Birthday February 6, 1791

• The temperature on February 6, 1791 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly 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
  • 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 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
  • August 14 » Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
  • August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
  • 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

• 1781 » John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, Irish general and politician, Governor of Saint Lucia († 1844)
• 1796 » John Stevens Henslow, English botanist and geologist († 1861)
• 1797 » Joseph von Radowitz, Prussian general and politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia († 1853)
• 1799 » Imre Frivaldszky, Hungarian botanist and entomologist († 1870)
• 1800 » Achille Devéria, French painter and lithographer († 1857)
• 1802 » Charles Wheatstone, English-French physicist and cryptographer († 1875)