Historical Events In 1791

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

Jan 06   Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer   

Jan 08   Jacob Collamer, (Sen-Vt)   

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

Jan 15   Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)   

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

Feb 01   Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder   

Feb 12   Jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam)   

Feb 16   Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58   

Feb 17   Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)   

Feb 20   Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen).   

Feb 25   1st Bank of US chartered   

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

Mar 03   1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits and carriages)   

Mar 03   Congress establishes US Mint   

Mar 03   inaugural Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled spirits and carriages)   

Mar 04   1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office.   

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

Mar 04   Vermont is recorded as becoming the 14th state of the Union   

Mar 06   Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures.   

Mar 09   George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether.   

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

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

Mar 10   John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver.   

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

Mar 11   Samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, PA became the inaugural 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   

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

Mar 21   Capt Hopley Yeaton of NH is recorded as becoming 1st commissioned officer in USN   

Mar 21   Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire is recorded as becoming inaugural 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.   

Mar 31   Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer   

Apr 12   Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe)   

Apr 13   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 in the year 1791.   

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   In the year 1791 birth of charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder   

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

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

Feb 20   In the year 1791 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   In the year 1791 death of richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58   

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 on this day in history.   

Apr 01   In the year 1791 death of richard Butler American soldier (b. 1743)   

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

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

May 09   On this day in history francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53