Family tree Van Willigen » Pieter van Willigen (Van Wilgen) (1791-????)

Birthday March 6, 1791

• The temperature on March 6, 1791 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. 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
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
  • September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
  • November 4 » Northwest Indian War: The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1779 » Antoine-Henri Jomini, Swiss-French general († 1869)
• 1780 » Lucy Barnes, American writer († 1809)
• 1785 » Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor († 1857)
• 1787 » Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer († 1826)
• 1806 » Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English-Italian poet and translator († 1861)
• 1812 » Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American businessman, co-founded the Waltham Watch Company († 1895)