Page 2: Historical Events In 1791

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

Apr 23   In the year 1791 james Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)   

Apr 24   In the year 1791 nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)   

Apr 27   On this day in history 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   The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the year 1791.   

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 in the year 1791.   

May 15   Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance in the year 1791.   

May 16   On this day in history near Moodus, Connecticut, the largest historical earthquake in Connecticut occurred   

May 28   Joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57 in the year 1791.   

May 29   In the year 1791 pietro Romani, composer   

May 30   In the year 1791 ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56   

Jun 09   In the year 1791 john Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home)   

Jun 20   King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1791 jose Maria Narvaez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver BC)   

Jul 05   On this day in history jos‚ Mar¡a Narv ez discovers Point Grey, now in Vancouver, BC   

Jul 09   Nicolas Ledesma, composer in the year 1791.   

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   On this day in history samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine   

Aug 04   In the year 1791 austria & Turkey sign Peace of Sistova   

Aug 19   Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman   

Aug 25   In the year 1791 pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies   

Aug 26   John Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat on this day in history.   

Aug 30   In the year 1791 the HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.   

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Jan 06   In the year 1791 birth of jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer   

Jan 08   In the year 1791 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   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   On this day in history birth of jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam)   

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   William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717) died in the year 1791.   

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

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

Mar 14   Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725) died on this day in history.   

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

Apr 02   Mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749) died on this day in history.   

Apr 19   In the year 1791 richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies   

May 09   Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53 in the year 1791.