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Birthday January 11, 1791

• The temperature on January 11, 1791 was about 7.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of 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.
  • March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
  • May 3 » The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • 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.
  • October 1 » First session of the French Legislative Assembly.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1777 » Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant and rebel leader († 1837)
• 1786 » Joseph Jackson Lister, English physicist († 1869)
• 1788 » William Thomas Brande, English chemist and academic († 1866)
• 1800 » Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer († 1895)
• 1807 » Ezra Cornell, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Western Union and Cornell University († 1874)
• 1814 » James Paget, English surgeon and pathologist († 1899)