Page 2: Historical Events In 1791

Apr 19   On this day in history richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies   

Apr 23   James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61) on this day in history.   

Apr 24   Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland) on this day in history.   

Apr 27   In the year 1791 samuel Finley Breece Morse, US painter/inventor (telegraph)   

Apr 27   In the year 1791 the birth of Samuel Morse, Inventor of Morse Code   

May 03   On this day in history the Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.   

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

May 11   Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer in the year 1791.   

May 15   Baron Floris A van Hall, Dutch minister of Justice/Finance on this day in history.   

May 15   On this day in history maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.   

May 16   Near Moodus, Connecticut, the largest historical earthquake in Connecticut occurred in the year 1791.   

May 28   In the year 1791 joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57   

May 29   Pietro Romani, composer on this day in history.   

May 30   Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

Jun 09   John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home) on this day in history.   

Jun 20   In the year 1791 king Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution   

Jun 21   In the year 1791 fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne   

Jun 30   On this day in history félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart)   

Jul 05   Jose Maria Narvaez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver BC) in the year 1791.   

Jul 05   Jos‚ Mar¡a Narv ez discovers Point Grey, now in Vancouver, BC on this day in history.   

Jul 09   In the year 1791 nicolas Ledesma, composer   

Jul 09   On this day in history third Fleet arrives in Australia from England, HMS Queen bringing first Irish convicts to be transported.   

Jul 14   The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England in the year 1791.   

Jul 17   In the year 1791 members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.   

Jul 26   On this day in history franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM   

Aug 02   Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine on this day in history.   

Aug 04   Austria & Turkey sign Peace of Sistova on this day in history.   

Aug 19   On this day in history benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac   

Aug 20   On this day in history danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska   

Aug 22   Haitian Revolution begins on this day in history.   

Aug 22   Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman on this day in history.   

Aug 25   On this day in history pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies   

Aug 26   In the year 1791 john Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat   

Aug 30   The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day on this day in history.   

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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   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 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 in the year 1791.   

Feb 12   Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union) was born on this day in history.   

Feb 20   Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen) was born in the year 1791.   

Jan 11   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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 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   On this day in history francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53