1791: Difference between revisions

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* [[January 25]] {{ndash}}– The [[British Parliament]] passes the Constitutional Act of 1791, splitting the province of Quebec (a colony in [[North America]] spreading from the [[Gulf of Mexico]] coast to [[Hudson Bay]])

* [[March 2]] {{ndash}}– A [[semaphore]] machine is revealed to the public in [[Paris]].

* [[March 4]] {{ndash}}– [[Vermont]] becomes a [[state]] in the [[United States]].

* [[May 3]] {{ndash}}– The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Sejm (Parliament) proclaims the [[Constitution of third May]], the first modern codified, or legal code-like, [[constitution]] in [[Europe]].

* [[July 14]] {{ndash}}– The [[Priestley Riots]] happen in [[Birmingham]], [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]], [[England]].

* [[June 20]] {{ndash}}– The French Royal Family is captured when they try to flee in disguise.

* [[July 17]] {{ndash}}– The [[Champ de Mars Massacre]] occurs during the [[French Revolution]].

* [[August 4]] {{ndash}}– The [[Treaty of Sistova]] is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.

* [[August 6]] {{ndash}}– [[Brandenburg Gate]] in [[Berlin]] is finished.

* [[August 26]] {{ndash}}– [[John Fitch]] is given a [[patent]] for the [[steamboat]] in the [[United States]].

* [[September 25]] {{ndash}}– The [[Mission Santa Cruz]] is founded by Father [[Fermín Francisco de Lasuén]], becoming the twelfth [[mission]] in the [[California]] mission chain.

* [[September 30]] {{ndash}}– First showing of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]'s [[singspiel]], a type of [[opera]], [[Die Zauberflöte]] (Magic Flute) in the [[Freihaustheater]] in [[Vienna]].

* [[October 9]] {{ndash}}– The [[Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad]], was founded by Father [[Fermín Francisco de Lasuén]], becoming the thirteenth [[mission]] in the [[California]] mission chain.

* [[December 4]] {{ndash}}– The first issue of [[The Observer]], the world's first [[Sunday]] newspaper, is published.

* [[December 15]] {{ndash}}– The states approve ten [[amendment]]s to the [[United States Constitution]], which become the [[Bill of Rights]]. Two additional amendments are still being thought about, and one of these is finally approved in [[1992]], becoming the [[Twenty-seventh Amendment]].

* [[January 15]] {{ndash}}– [[Franz Grillparzer]], Austrian writer (d. [[1872]])

* [[January 28]] {{ndash}}– [[Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold]], French composer (d. [[1833]])

* [[February 12]] {{ndash}}– [[Peter Cooper]], American Industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (d. [[1883]])

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* [[April 23]] {{ndash}}– [[James Buchanan]], 15th [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1868]])

* [[April 27]] {{ndash}}– [[Samuel Morse]], American inventor (d. [[1872]])

* [[July 26]] {{ndash}}– [[Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart]], Austrian composer and pianist (d. [[1844]])

* [[September 5]] {{ndash}}– [[Giacomo Meyerbeer]], German composer (d. [[1864]])

* [[September 21]] {{ndash}}– [[István Széchenyi]], Hungarian politician and writer (d. [[1860]])

* [[September 22]] {{ndash}}– [[Michael Faraday]], British scientist (d. [[1867]])

* [[September 26]] {{ndash}}– [[Théodore Géricault]], French painter (d. [[1824]])

* [[November 11]] {{ndash}}– [[Josef Munzinger]], [[member of the Swiss Federal Council]] (d. [[1855]])

* [[December 26]] {{ndash}}– [[Charles Babbage]], British mathematician and inventor (d. [[1871]])

* [[January 11]] {{ndash}}– [[William Williams Pantycelyn]], Welsh hymnist (b. [[1717]])

* [[March 2]] {{ndash}}– [[John Wesley]], English founder of Methodism (b. [[1703]])

* [[March 14]] {{ndash}}– [[Johann Salomo Semler]], German historian and Bible commentator (b. [[1725]])

* [[April 19]] {{ndash}}– [[Richard Price]], Welsh philosopher (b. [[1723]])

* [[May 9]] {{ndash}}– [[Francis Hopkinson]], American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. [[1737]])

* [[June 5]] {{ndash}}– [[Frederick Haldimand]], Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. [[1718]])

* [[June 10]] {{ndash}}– [[Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte]], French admiral (b. [[1720]])

* [[July 17]] {{ndash}}– [[Martin Dobrizhoffer]], Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. [[1717]])

* [[July 25]] {{ndash}}– [[Isaac Low]], American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. [[1735]])

* [[August 16]] {{ndash}}– [[Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec]], French soldier and diplomat (b. [[1719]])

* [[November 4]] {{ndash}}– [[Richard Butler (general)]], American soldier (b. [[1743]])

* [[September 25]] {{ndash}}– [[William Bradford (1719-1791)|William Bradford]], American printer (b. [[1719]])

* [[December 5]] {{ndash}}– [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], Austrian composer (b. [[1756]])