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1791 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1791
MDCCXCI
Ab urbe condita2544
Armenian calendar1240
ԹՎ ՌՄԽ
Assyrian calendar6541
Balinese saka calendar1712–1713
Bengali calendar1198
Berber calendar2741
British Regnal year31 Geo. 3 – 32 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2335
Burmese calendar1153
Byzantine calendar7299–7300
Chinese calendar庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
4487 or 4427
    — to —
辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4488 or 4428
Coptic calendar1507–1508
Discordian calendar2957
Ethiopian calendar1783–1784
Hebrew calendar5551–5552
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1847–1848
 - Shaka Samvat1712–1713
 - Kali Yuga4891–4892
Holocene calendar11791
Igbo calendar791–792
Iranian calendar1169–1170
Islamic calendar1205–1206
Japanese calendarKansei 3
(寛政３年)
Javanese calendar1717–1718
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4124
Minguo calendar121 before ROC
民前121年
Nanakshahi calendar323
Thai solar calendar2333–2334
Tibetan calendar阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
1917 or 1536 or 764
    — to —
阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
1918 or 1537 or 765
January 2: Big Bottom massacre

1791 (MDCCXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1791st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 791st year of the 2nd millennium, the 91st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1791, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–March[]

  • January 2 – Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
  • January 12 – Holy Roman troops reenter Liège, heralding the end of the Liège Revolution, and the restoration of its Prince-Bishops.
  • January 25 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
  • February 8 – The Bank of the United States, based in Philadelphia, is incorporated by the federal government with a 20-year charter and started with $10,000,000 capital.[1]
  • February 21 – The United States opens diplomatic relations with Portugal.
  • March 2 – French Revolution:
    • The abolition of guilds is enacted.
    • A mechanical semaphore line for rapid long-distance communication is demonstrated by Claude Chappe in Paris.
  • March 4 – Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
  • March 13 – Thomas Paine's chief work Rights of Man (first part) is published in London.[2]
  • March – French Revolution: In France, the National Constituent Assembly accepts the recommendation of its Commission of Weights and Measures, that the nation should adopt the metric system.

April–June[]

  • April 21 – The first of forty boundary stones, delineating the borders of the new District of Columbia in the United States, is laid at Jones Point Light, in Alexandria, Virginia.
  • May 3 – The Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth proclaims the Constitution of May 3, 1791, the first modern codified constitution in Europe.
  • June 20 – French Revolution – Flight to Varennes: The French Royal Family is captured when they try to flee in disguise.
  • June 21 – The Ordnance Survey is founded in Great Britain.[3]

July–September[]

  • July 8 – Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, on a visit to England, is awarded an honorary doctorate of music at the University of Oxford.
  • July 11 – The ashes of Voltaire are transferred to the Panthéon in Paris.
  • July 14–17 – Priestley Riots against Dissenters in Birmingham, England.
  • July 17 – French Revolution: The Champ de Mars massacre occurs in Paris.
  • August 4 – The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
  • August 6 – The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (Prussia) is finished.
  • August 7 – George Hammond is appointed as Great Britain's first minister to the United States.[1]
  • August 21 – Haitian Revolution: A slave rebellion breaks out in the French colony of Saint-Domingue.
  • August 26 – John Fitch is granted a patent for the steamboat in the United States.
  • August 27
    • Declaration of Pillnitz: A proclamation by Frederick William II of Prussia and the Habsburg Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, affirms their wish to "put the King of France in a state to strengthen the bases of monarchic government."
    • Third Anglo-Mysore War: Battle of Tellicherry: Off the south-west coast of India, a British Royal Navy patrol forces a French convoy bound for Mysore to surrender.
  • September 5 –
    • An ordinance is written barring the game of baseball within 80 yards of the Meeting House in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the first known reference to the game of baseball in North America.[4]
    • Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen is written by activist Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.[5]
  • September 6 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera seria, La clemenza di Tito, premières at the Estates Theatre in Prague to mark the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia.
  • September 9 – The capital of the United States, Washington, D.C., is named after the incumbent 1st President George Washington.
  • September 12 – The first serious secondary education school open to girls in Denmark, the Døtreskolen af 1791, is founded in Copenhagen.
  • September 13 – French Revolution: Louis XVI of France accepts the final version of the completed constitution.
  • September 14 – French Revolution: The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
  • September 25 – Mission Santa Cruz is founded by Basque Franciscan Father Fermín Lasuén, becoming the 12th mission in the California mission chain.
  • September 28 – French Revolution: The law on Jewish emancipation is promulgated in France, the first such legislation in modern Europe.
  • September 30 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's singspiel opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) premières at the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna.

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

  • The first American ship reaches Japan.
  • The School for the Indigent Blind, the oldest continuously operating specialist school of its kind in the world, is founded in Liverpool, England, by blind ex-merchant seaman, writer and abolitionist Edward Rushton.
  • Camembert cheese reputedly first made by Marie Harel, a farmer from Normandy.[7]
  • The Dar Hassan Pacha (palace) in the Casbah of Algiers is completed.[8]

Births[]

Samuel Morse
Michael Faraday
Charles Babbage
  • January 15 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (d. 1872)
  • January 28 – Ferdinand Hérold, French composer (d. 1833)
  • February 12 – Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (d. 1883)
  • February 21
    • Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (d. 1857)
    • John Mercer, English chemist, industrialist (d. 1866)
  • March 20 – Marie Ellenrieder, German painter (d. 1863)
  • March 31 – Franciszek Mirecki, Polish composer, conductor and teacher (d. 1862
  • April 3 – Anne Lister, landowner, diarist, mountaineer and traveller, "the first modern lesbian" (d. 1840)
  • April 23 – James Buchanan, American lawyer, politician, and 15th president of the United States. (d. 1868)
James Buchanan

Deaths[]

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • January 11 – William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)
  • January 23 – Johann Phillip Fabricius, German missionary (b. 1711)
  • March 2 – John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)
  • March 10 – William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791), England (b. 1722)
  • March 14 – Johann Salomo Semler, German historian, Bible commentator (b. 1725)
  • March 31 – Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney of Ireland (b. 1714)
  • April 2 – Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French revolutionary leader (b. 1749)
  • April 19 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
  • April 24 – Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1726)
  • May 9 – Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1737)
  • June 5 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
  • June 10 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
  • June 17 – Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Methodist leader (b. 1707)
  • June 30 – Jean-Baptiste Descamps, Flemish painter and art historian (b. 1714)
  • July 9 – Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu, French engraver (b. 1716)
  • July 17 – Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
  • July 25 – Isaac Low, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1735)
  • August 22 – Johann David Michaelis, German biblical scholar and teacher (b. 1717)
  • September 25 – William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
  • October 7 – Mary Frances of the Five Wounds, Italian Franciscan saint (b. 1715)
  • October 12
    • Anna Louisa Karsch, German poet (b. 1722)
    • Peter Oliver, Massachusetts colonial judge (b. 1713)
  • October 16 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favourite of Catherine the Great (b. 1739)
  • November 4 – Richard Butler, American soldier (b. 1743)
  • November 16 – Edward Penny, British painter (b. 1714)
  • December 5 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)
  • December 12
  • December 13 – Mathieu Tillet, French botanist (b. 1714)
  • December 19 – Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish architect and engraver (b. 1714)
  • December 27 – John Monro, British physician of Bethlem Hospital (b. 1716)
  • date unknown – Maria Petraccini, Italian anatomist, physician (b. 1759)

References[]

  1. ^ a b Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p169
  2. ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
  3. ^ "A short history of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain" (PDF).
  4. ^ Thorn, John (August 3, 2011). "The Pittsfield "Baseball" Bylaw of 1791: What It Means". Our Game. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  5. ^ Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  6. ^ Robert M. Owens, Red Dreams, White Nightmares: Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015)
  7. ^ "The Invention of Marie Harel". Camembert de Normandie. Archived from the original on January 4, 2010. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
  8. ^ "Interior of Governors Palace, Algiers, Algeria". World Digital Library. 1899. Retrieved September 25, 2013.

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