Historical Events For 1791

Jan 02   Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War on this day in history.  

Jan 06   Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer on this day in history.  

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

Jan 14   On this day in history calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2")  

Jan 15   On this day in history franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)  

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

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) in the year 1791.  

Feb 16   In the year 1791 richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58  

Feb 17   Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra) in the year 1791.  

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

Feb 25   1st Bank of US chartered in the year 1791.  

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

Mar 03   1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages) in the year 1791.  

Mar 03   Congress establishes US Mint on this day in history.  

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

Mar 04   In the year 1791 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office  

Mar 04   On this day in history president Washington calls the US Senate into its first special session  

Mar 04   Vermont becomes the 14th state of the Union in the year 1791.  

Mar 06   Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures in the year 1791.  

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

Mar 09   George Hayward, Us, surgeon, first to use ether in the year 1791.  

Mar 10   John Stone, Concord MA, patents a pile driver in the year 1791.  

Mar 10   In the year 1791 john Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver  

Mar 10   Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution's treatment of the clergy in the year 1791.  

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

Mar 11   Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent in the year 1791.  

Mar 21   Bangalore in India is seized by the British under Lord Cornwallis in the Third Mysore War on this day in history.  

Mar 21   Capt Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN on this day in history.  

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

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   On this day in history franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer  

Apr 12   Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe) in the year 1791.  

Apr 13   On this day in history félix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance  

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Jan 06   On this day in history 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 in the year 1791.  

Jan 15   Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece) was born in the year 1791.  

Feb 01   Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder was born in the year 1791.  

Feb 12   On this day in history birth of jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam)  

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

Feb 20   On this day in history birth of carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)  

Jan 11   William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717) died on this day in history.  

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

Mar 02   In the year 1791 death of john Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)  

Mar 14   On this day in history death of johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)  

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   On this day in history richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies  

May 09   Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53 in the year 1791.