Notable Historical Events - 1791
1791 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War. |
Feb 17 |
Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra) |
Feb 25 |
1st Bank of US chartered |
Mar 2 |
Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris. |
Mar 3 |
1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages) |
Mar 3 |
Congress establishes US Mint |
Mar 4 |
1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office |
Mar 4 |
Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session |
Mar 4 |
Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies) |
Mar 10 |
John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver |
Mar 10 |
Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy |
Mar 11 |
Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent |
Mar 21 |
Capt Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN |
May 3 |
The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. |
May 15 |
Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance. |
Jun 20 |
King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution |
Jun 21 |
Fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne |
Jul 5 |
Jose Maria Narvaez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver BC) |
Jul 14 |
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. |
Aug 2 |
Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine |
Aug 4 |
The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars. |
Aug 19 |
Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac |
Aug 19 |
Benjamin Banneker writes a letter to the Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson using language from the 'United States Declaration of Independence' to criticize Jefferson's pro-slavery stance and to request justice for African Americans |
Aug 22 |
Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman |
Aug 26 |
John Fitch granted US patent for his working steamboat |
Aug 30 |
HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day, on her return from her search for the Bounty and the mutineers who had taken her |
Aug 30 |
Thomas Jefferson responds to Benjamin Banneker's letter on the issue of slavery |
Sep 3 |
French Constitution passed by French National Assembly |
Sep 6 |
Mozart's opera "La Clemenza di Tito" premieres in Prague |
Sep 13 |
France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution |
Sep 30 |
Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna |
Sep 30 |
The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots. |
Oct 1 |
1st session of new French legislative assembly |
Nov 3 |
Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers |
Nov 15 |
1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens |
Nov 21 |
Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic. |
Nov 29 |
Chatham Islands sighted by HMS Chatham commanded by William Broughton |
Dec 4 |
Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, 1st published |
Dec 12 |
Bank of US opens |
Dec 15 |
1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania |
Dec 15 |
US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval. Becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution |
Dec 17 |
NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street |
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