Page 2: 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   Samuel Finley Breece Morse, US painter/inventor (telegraph) on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1791 francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53   

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   In the year 1791 maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.   

May 16   Near Moodus, Connecticut, the largest historical earthquake in Connecticut occurred on this day in history.   

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   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   In the year 1791 king Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution   

Jun 21   Fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne in the year 1791.   

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) on this day in history.   

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   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   On this day in history austria & Turkey sign Peace of Sistova   

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   In the year 1791 haitian Revolution begins   

Aug 22   On this day in history haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman   

Aug 25   Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies in the year 1791.   

Aug 26   John Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat in the year 1791.   

Aug 30   The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day on this day in history.   

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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 on this day in history.   

Jan 15   Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece) was born in the year 1791.   

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   On this day in history birth of peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union)   

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

Jan 11   William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717) died on this day in history.   

Feb 16   On this day in history death of richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58   

Mar 02   John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703) died in the year 1791.   

Mar 14   Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725) died in the year 1791.   

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

Apr 02   In the year 1791 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   On this day in history francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53