Page 2: Historical Events In 1791

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

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) 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   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   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   Near Moodus, Connecticut, the largest historical earthquake in Connecticut occurred in the year 1791.   

May 28   On this day in history joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57   

May 29   On this day in history pietro Romani, composer   

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   King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution on this day in history.   

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

Jun 30   Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart) in the year 1791.   

Jul 05   In the year 1791 jose Maria Narvaez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver BC)   

Jul 05   Jos‚ Mar¡a Narv ez discovers Point Grey, now in Vancouver, BC in the year 1791.   

Jul 09   On this day in history nicolas Ledesma, composer   

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   On this day in history the Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.   

Jul 17   In the year 1791 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 on this day in history.   

Aug 02   Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine on this day in history.   

Aug 04   In the year 1791 austria & Turkey sign Peace of Sistova   

Aug 19   Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac in the year 1791.   

Aug 20   Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska in the year 1791.   

Aug 22   On this day in history 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   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   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   On this day in history birth of charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder   

Feb 12   Jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam) was born in the year 1791.   

Feb 12   Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union) was born in the year 1791.   

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

Mar 02   In the year 1791 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   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   In the year 1791 francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53