Historical Events In 1791

Jan 02   On this day in history big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.   

Jan 06   Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer on this day in history.   

Jan 08   Jacob Collamer, (Sen-Vt) on this day in history.   

Jan 14   Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2") on this day in history.   

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

Jan 25   In the year 1791 british Parliament approves bill splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.   

Feb 01   Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder in the year 1791.   

Feb 12   Jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam) on this day in history.   

Feb 16   Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58 in the year 1791.   

Feb 17   On this day in history messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)   

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

Feb 25   In the year 1791 1st Bank of US chartered   

Mar 02   On this day in history long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.   

Mar 03   On this day in history 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)   

Mar 03   Congress establishes US Mint in the year 1791.   

Mar 03   First Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages) on this day in history.   

Mar 04   1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office on this day in history.   

Mar 04   President Washington calls the US Senate into its first special session in the year 1791.   

Mar 04   In the year 1791 vermont becomes the 14th state of the Union.   

Mar 06   On this day in history anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures   

Mar 09   George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether in the year 1791.   

Mar 09   In the year 1791 george Hayward, Us, surgeon, first to use ether   

Mar 10   On this day in history john Stone, Concord MA, patents a pile driver   

Mar 10   John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver on this day in history.   

Mar 10   In the year 1791 pope condemns France's Civil Constitution's treatment of the clergy   

Mar 11   On this day in history samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, PA became the first person to receive more than one patent from the U.S. Patent Office.   

Mar 11   Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent on this day in history.   

Mar 21   Bangalore in India is seized by the British under Lord Cornwallis in the Third Mysore War on this day in history.   

Mar 21   Capt Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN in the year 1791.   

Mar 21   Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes first commissioned officer in USN on this day in history.   

Mar 28   In the year 1791 convicts Mary and William Bryant, their two children and seven other convicts escape from Port Jackson Australia in open boat to Timor but are recaptured there.   

Mar 31   In the year 1791 franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer   

Apr 12   Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe) in the year 1791.   

Apr 13   On this day in history félix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance   

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Jan 06   In the year 1791 birth of jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer   

Jan 08   Jacob Collamer, (Sen-Vt) was born in the year 1791.   

Jan 14   Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2") was born on this day in history.   

Jan 15   On this day in history birth of franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)   

Feb 01   Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder was born in the year 1791.   

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

Feb 12   In the year 1791 birth of peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union)   

Feb 20   On this day in history birth of carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)   

Jan 11   In the year 1791 death of william Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)   

Feb 16   Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58 died on this day in history.   

Mar 02   In the year 1791 death of john Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)   

Mar 14   In the year 1791 death of johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)   

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

Apr 02   Mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749) died in the year 1791.   

Apr 19   Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies in the year 1791.   

May 09   In the year 1791 francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53