Historical Events In 1791

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

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

Apr 24   Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland) in the year 1791.  

Apr 27   On this day in history samuel Finley Breece Morse, US painter/inventor (telegraph)  

Apr 27   The birth of Samuel Morse, Inventor of Morse Code on this day in history.  

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

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   On this day in history baron Floris A van Hall, Dutch minister of Justice/Finance  

May 15   Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance on this day in history.  

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   Pietro Romani, composer in the year 1791.  

May 30   Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56 in the year 1791.  

Jun 09   On this day in history john Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home)  

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   Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart) on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1791.  

Jul 09   Nicolas Ledesma, composer on this day in history.  

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   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 on this day in history.  

Jul 26   Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM on this day in history.  

Aug 02   Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine in the year 1791.  

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   Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska in the year 1791.  

Aug 22   In the year 1791 haitian Revolution begins  

Aug 22   In the year 1791 haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman  

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

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 on this day in history.  

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

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

Feb 16   In the year 1791 death of richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58  

Mar 02   On this day in history death of john Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)  

Mar 14   On this day in history 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   In the year 1791 death of mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749)  

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

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