Historical Events In 1791

Jan 02   Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War in the year 1791.  

Jan 06   Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer in the year 1791.  

Jan 08   Jacob Collamer, (Sen-Vt) in the year 1791.  

Jan 14   Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2") in the year 1791.  

Jan 15   Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece) on this day in history.  

Jan 25   On this day in history british Parliament approves bill splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.  

Feb 01   Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder on this day in history.  

Feb 12   Jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam) on this day in history.  

Feb 16   Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58 on this day in history.  

Feb 17   On this day in history messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)  

Feb 20   Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen) on this day in history.  

Feb 25   1st Bank of US chartered on this day in history.  

Mar 02   Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris in the year 1791.  

Mar 03   On this day in history 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)  

Mar 03   On this day in history congress establishes US Mint  

Mar 03   In the year 1791 first Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)  

Mar 04   On this day in history 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office  

Mar 04   President Washington calls the US Senate into its first special session in the year 1791.  

Mar 04   Vermont becomes the 14th state of the Union on this day in history.  

Mar 06   On this day in history anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures  

Mar 09   George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether on this day in history.  

Mar 09   On this day in history george Hayward, Us, surgeon, first to use ether  

Mar 10   John Stone, Concord MA, patents a pile driver on this day in history.  

Mar 10   On this day in history john Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver  

Mar 10   In the year 1791 pope condemns France's Civil Constitution's treatment of the clergy  

Mar 11   In the year 1791 samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, PA became the first person to receive more than one patent from the U.S. Patent Office.  

Mar 11   Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent on this day in history.  

Mar 21   Bangalore in India is seized by the British under Lord Cornwallis in the Third Mysore War in the year 1791.  

Mar 21   In the year 1791 capt Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN  

Mar 21   Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes first commissioned officer in USN in the year 1791.  

Mar 28   On this day in history 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 31   Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer on this day in history.  

Apr 12   On this day in history francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe)  

Apr 13   In the year 1791 félix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance  

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Jan 06   In the year 1791 birth of jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer  

Jan 08   Jacob Collamer, (Sen-Vt) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 14   Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2") was born on this day in history.  

Jan 15   Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 01   Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder was born on this day in history.  

Feb 12   Jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 12   In the year 1791 birth of peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union)  

Feb 20   In the year 1791 birth of carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)  

Jan 11   On this day in history death of william Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)  

Feb 16   Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58 died in the year 1791.  

Mar 02   John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703) died on this day in history.  

Mar 14   Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725) died on this day in history.  

Apr 01   Richard Butler American soldier (b. 1743) died on this day in history.  

Apr 02   Mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749) died in the year 1791.  

Apr 19   Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies on this day in history.  

May 09   Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53 on this day in history.