Today in History for Year 1791

Months in Year 1791: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 41 of 41

Jan 2nd - Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
Feb 17th - Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
Feb 25th - 1st Bank of US chartered
Mar 2nd - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
Mar 3rd - 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
Mar 3rd - Congress establishes US Mint
Mar 4th - 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
Mar 4th - Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session
Mar 4th - Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
Mar 10th - John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver
Mar 10th - Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy
Mar 11th - Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
Mar 21st - Capt Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN
May 3rd - The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
May 15th - Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
Jun 20th - King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
Jun 21st - Fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne
Jul 5th - Jose Maria Narvaez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver BC)
Jul 14th - The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
Jul 17th - 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.
Aug 2nd - Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine
Aug 4th - The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
Aug 19th - Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac
Aug 20th - Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska
Aug 22nd - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
Aug 26th - John Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat
Aug 30th - The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
Sep 3rd - French Constitution passed by French National Assembly
Classical music prodigy Mozart Sep 6th - Mozarts opera "La Clemenza di Tito," premieres in Prague
Sep 13th - France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution
Sep 30th - Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna
Sep 30th - The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.
Oct 1st - 1st session of new French legislative assembly
Nov 3rd - Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers
Nov 15th - 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
Nov 21st - Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.
Dec 4th - Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, 1st published
Dec 12th - Bank of US opens
Dec 15th - 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
Dec 15th - Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
Dec 17th - NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 42 of 42

Jan 6th - Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer
Jan 8th - Jacob Collamer, (Sen-Vt)
Jan 14th - Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2")
Jan 15th - Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)
Feb 1st - Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder
Feb 12th - Jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam)
Feb 12th - Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union)
Feb 20th - Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)
Mar 6th - Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures
Mar 9th - George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
Mar 15th - Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873)
Mar 31st - Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer
Apr 12th - Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe)
Apr 13th - Félix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance
Apr 23rd - James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)
Apr 23rd - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist
Apr 24th - Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)
Apr 27th - Samuel Morse, Charlestown, Massachusetts, American inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter
May 11th - Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer
Inventor Samuel Morse (Apr 27th) May 15th - Baron Floris A van Hall, Dutch minister of Justice/Finance
May 29th - Pietro Romani, composer
Jun 9th - John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home)
Jun 21st - Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
Jun 30th - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart)
Jul 9th - Nicolas Ledesma, composer
Jul 26th - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM
Sep 1st - Lydia Sigourney, US, religious author (How to Be Happy)
Sep 5th - Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vogelsdorf Germany, composer (Golt Und Die Natur)
Sep 20th - Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Semejnaja chronika)
Sep 22nd - Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor
Sep 23rd - Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Encke Comet)
Sep 23rd - Karl T Korner, German poet (Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt)
Sep 26th - Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
Oct 1st - Sergey Aksakov, Russia, novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family)
Oct 26th - Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity)
Oct 31st - Ferdinand Huber, composer
Nov 11th - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
Dec 4th - Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer
Dec 9th - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer
Dec 12th - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (d. 1847)
Dec 14th - Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823)
Dec 24th - A Eugene Scribe, French dramatist (Bertrand et Raton)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Oct 1st - Prince Willem Frederick (later King of Netherlands) marries his cousin princess Frederica Louise Wilhelmine of Prussia

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 22 of 22

Jan 11th - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)
Feb 16th - Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58
Mar 2nd - John Wesley, English co-founder of Methodism dies at 87 (b. 1703)
Mar 14th - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)
Apr 1st - Richard Butler American soldier (b. 1743)
Apr 2nd - Mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749)
Apr 19th - Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies
May 9th - Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53
May 28th - Joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57
May 30th - Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56
Jun 5th - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
Jun 10th - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
Jul 17th - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
Jul 25th - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
Aug 16th - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
Aug 25th - Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies
Sep 25th - William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
Oct 5th - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
Oct 10th - C F D Schubart, writer, dies
Co-founder of the Methodist Movement John Wesley (Mar 2nd) Oct 12th - A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68
Oct 16th - Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies
Dec 5th - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna Austria at 35