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

Jan 14   In the year 1791 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   British Parliament approves bill splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada in the year 1791.  

Feb 01   In the year 1791 charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mar 03   Congress establishes US Mint in the year 1791.  

Mar 03   On this day in history 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   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 in the year 1791.  

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

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

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

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

Mar 11   On this day in history 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   On this day in history bangalore in India is seized by the British under Lord Cornwallis in the Third Mysore War  

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

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

Apr 13   Félix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance in the year 1791.  

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

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

Jan 14   On this day in history 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   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 in the year 1791.  

Feb 12   On this day in history 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   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   On this day in history death of richard Butler American soldier (b. 1743)  

Apr 02   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.