May 16 Near Moodus, Connecticut, the largest historical earthquake in Connecticut occurred

Jan 25 British Parliament approves bill splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.

Apr 27 The birth of Samuel Morse, Inventor of Morse Code

Sep 22 The birth of Michael Faraday, English physicist

Sep 22 Michael Faraday (chemist, physicist) born

Sep 30 Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiers in Vienna

Jun 20 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution

Dec 05 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composer, dies in Vienna, Austria, at 35

Dec 26 In the British parlimentLondon England, British PM William Pitt passes the Constitutional Act, dividing Quebec along the Ottawa River, into Upper and Lower Canada,

Dec 15 The Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution) becomes law, following ratification by the state of Virginia.

Dec 17 NYC traffic regulation creates the 1-way street system

Aug 26 John Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat

Aug 22 Haitian Revolution begins

Oct 01 The first session of the new French legislative assembly

Jul 05 Jos‚ Mar¡a Narv ez discovers Point Grey, now in Vancouver, BC

Jul 09 Third Fleet arrives in Australia from England, HMS Queen bringing first Irish convicts to be transported.

Mar 03 First Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)

Mar 11 Samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, PA became the first person to receive more than one patent from the U.S. Patent Office.

Mar 28 Convicts Mary and William Bryant, their two children and seven other convicts escape from Port Jackson Australia in open boat to Timor but are recaptured there.

Mar 04 Vermont becomes the 14th state of the Union.

Mar 21 Bangalore in India is seized by the British under Lord Cornwallis in the Third Mysore War

Mar 21 Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes first commissioned officer in USN

Mar 09 George Hayward, Us, surgeon, first to use ether

Mar 10 John Stone, Concord MA, patents a pile driver

Mar 04 President Washington calls the US Senate into its first special session

Mar 10 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution's treatment of the clergy

Mar 03 Congress establishes US Mint