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   On this day in history jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer  

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

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

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

Jan 25   In the year 1791 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   In the year 1791 jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam)  

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

Feb 17   Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra) on this day in history.  

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

Feb 25   In the year 1791 1st Bank of US chartered  

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

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

Mar 03   Congress establishes US Mint in the year 1791.  

Mar 03   First Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages) in the year 1791.  

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

Mar 04   In the year 1791 president Washington calls the US Senate into its first special session  

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

Mar 06   In the year 1791 anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures  

Mar 09   In the year 1791 george Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether  

Mar 09   George Hayward, Us, surgeon, first to use ether on this day in history.  

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

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

Mar 10   On this day in history pope condemns France's Civil Constitution's treatment of the clergy  

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   In the year 1791 samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent  

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

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

Mar 21   Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes first commissioned officer in USN on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

Mar 31   In the year 1791 franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer  

Apr 12   In the year 1791 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   Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer was born in the year 1791.  

Jan 08   On this day in history birth of jacob Collamer, (Sen-Vt)  

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

Jan 15   In the year 1791 birth of franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)  

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

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

Jan 11   In the year 1791 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 on this day in history.  

Mar 02   John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703) died in the year 1791.  

Mar 14   Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725) died in the year 1791.  

Apr 01   On this day in history death of richard Butler American soldier (b. 1743)  

Apr 02   In the year 1791 death of mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749)  

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.