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1791 was a
common year starting on Saturday
(see link for calendar).
Events
January 25
- The British
Parliament
passes the
Constitutional Act of 1791
, splitting the old province of
Quebec
into
Upper
and
Lower Canada
March 3
- The
U.S. Congress
passes a resolution calling for the establishment of the
United States Mint
(U.S. Mint not created until next year).
March 4
-
Vermont
is admitted as the 14th
U.S. state
.
May 3
-
Constitution of third May
the first written constitution in Europe, proclaimed by Polish
Sejm
(Parliament)
July 14
- The
Priestley Riots
in
Birmingham
,
England
.
June 20
- French Royal family captured when they try to flee in disguise
August 26
-
John Fitch
is granted a patent for the steamboat in the
United States
.
December 4
- The first issue of
The Observer
, the world's first Sunday
newspaper
, is published.
December 15
- The
United States Bill of Rights
is passed, but two of the package of twelve are not approved at that time. More than 200 years later, one of those two became the
Twenty-seventh Amendment
.
Slave rebellion in
Haiti
is crushed
Brandenburg Gate
in
Berlin
finished
Ongoing events
French Revolution
(
1789
-
1799
)
Births
January 15
-
Franz Grillparzer
,
Austrian
lyricist
(d.
1872
)
January 28
-
Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold
, French composer (d.
1833
)
February 21
-
John Mercer
,
chemist
and industrialist (d.
1866
)
April 23
-
James Buchanan
, 15th
President of the United States
April 27
-
Samuel Morse
, U.S. inventor
July 26
-
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
, composer
September 22
-
Michael Faraday
-
British
scientist
November 11
-
Josef Munzinger
,
member of the Swiss Federal Council
(d. 1855)
December 26
-
Charles Babbage
, British
mathematician
and inventor of computing machines
Deaths
March 2
-
John Wesley
, English founder of Methodism (b.
1703
)
April 19
-
Richard Price
, Welsh philosopher
May 9
-
Francis Hopkinson
,
American
author and signer of the
Declaration of Independence
July 25
-
Isaac Low
,
New York
delegate to the
Continental Congress
December 5
-
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
, Austrian composer (b.
1765
)
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