Historical Events In 1791

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

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

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

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) on this day in history.   

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

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

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

Mar 02   Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris on this day in history.   

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

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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history john Stone, Concord MA, patents a pile driver   

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

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

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   On this day in history 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 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   On this day in history captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes first commissioned officer in USN   

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

Jan 14   In the year 1791 birth of calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2")   

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

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

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

Feb 12   Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union) was born in the year 1791.   

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

Jan 11   In the year 1791 death of william Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)   

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

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

Mar 14   In the year 1791 death of johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)   

Apr 01   Richard Butler American soldier (b. 1743) died in the year 1791.   

Apr 02   On this day in history death of mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749)   

Apr 19   Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies in the year 1791.   

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