Whitworth Tree » Mary Bartholomew 6 (1731-1793)

Day of death February 23, 1793

• The temperature on February 23, 1793 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: winderig 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 1793: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 10 » The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
  • August 16 » French Revolution: A levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
  • August 27 » French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
  • October 12 » The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • October 16 » War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
  • November 3 » French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1766 » Stanisław Leszczyński, Polish king (b. 1677)
• 1781 » George Taylor, Irish-American blacksmith and politician (b. 1716)
• 1792 » Joshua Reynolds, English painter and academic (b. 1723)
• 1821 » John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
• 1848 » John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
• 1855 » Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)