Page 2: Historical Events In 1791

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

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   The birth of Samuel Morse, Inventor of Morse Code in the year 1791.   

May 03   In the year 1791 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 in the year 1791.   

May 11   Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer on this day in history.   

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

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   On this day in history joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57   

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

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

Jun 09   John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home) in the year 1791.   

Jun 20   King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution in the year 1791.   

Jun 21   Fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne on this day in history.   

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

Jul 05   On this day in history 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   Third Fleet arrives in Australia from England, HMS Queen bringing first Irish convicts to be transported in the year 1791.   

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

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 in the year 1791.   

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

Aug 02   On this day in history samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine   

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

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

Aug 20   Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska on this day in history.   

Aug 22   Haitian Revolution begins on this day in history.   

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

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   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   On this day in history birth of calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2")   

Jan 15   In the year 1791 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   In the year 1791 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   In the year 1791 birth of carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)   

Jan 11   On this day in history death of william Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)   

Feb 16   On this day in history 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   Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725) died in the year 1791.   

Apr 01   In the year 1791 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.