Page 2: Historical Events In 1791

Apr 19   Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies   

Apr 23   James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)   

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

Apr 27   Samuel Finley Breece Morse, US painter/inventor (telegraph).   

Apr 27   Samuel Morse, Inventor of Morse Code is born   

May 03   The Constitution of May 3 (the inaugural modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth   

May 09   Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53   

May 11   Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer.   

May 15   Baron Floris A van Hall, Dutch minister of Justice/Finance.   

May 15   Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance   

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

May 28   Joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57   

May 29   Pietro Romani, composer.   

May 30   Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56   

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

Jun 20   King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution   

Jun 21   Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne.   

Jun 30   Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot and Savart)   

Jul 05   Jose Maria Narvaez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver BC)   

Jul 05   Jos‚ Mar¡a Narv ez discovers Point Grey, now in Vancouver, BC   

Jul 09   Nicolas Ledesma, composer.   

Jul 09   Third Fleet arrives in Australia from England, HMS Queen bringing inaugural Irish convicts to be transported.   

Jul 14   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   

Jul 26   Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM.   

Aug 02   Samuel Briggs and his son, patent nail-making machine.   

Aug 04   Austria and Turkey sign Peace of Sistova.   

Aug 19   Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac   

Aug 20   Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska   

Aug 22   Haitian Revolution begins   

Aug 22   Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman   

Aug 25   Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies.   

Aug 26   John Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat   

Aug 30   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   

Jan 08   Jacob collamer: (sen-vt)   

Jan 14   Calvin phillips: Became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2")   

Jan 15   Franz gillparzer: Austrian tragic dramatist (golden fleece)   

Feb 01   Charles j sax: Belgian music instrument builder   

Feb 12   Jan d zocher jr: Dutch garden architect (vondelpark, amsterdam)   

Feb 12   Peter cooper: Industrialist/philanthropist (cooper union)   

Feb 20   Carl czerny: Vienna austria, pianist/composer (schule der virtuosen)   

Jan 11   William williams pantycelyn: Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)   

Feb 16   Richard earl d'alton: Austria general of s neth, commits suicide at 58   

Mar 02   John wesley: English founder of methodism (b. 1703)   

Mar 14   Johann salomo semler: German historian and bible commentator (b. 1725)   

Apr 01   Richard butler american soldier: Richard butler american soldier (b. 1743)   

Apr 02   Mirabeau: French statesman (b. 1749)   

Apr 19   Richard price: Nonconformist minister/writer (alabi's world),    

May 09   Francis hopkinson: Us writer/music/lawyer,