1791 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1791?
- January 2, 1791 – Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War
- January 25, 1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
- March 2, 1791 – Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
- March 4, 1791 – A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
- May 3, 1791 – The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- May 15, 1791 – Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
- June 21, 1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
- July 17, 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.
- August 4, 1791 – The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
- August 7, 1791 – United States troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
- August 22, 1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
- August 26, 1791 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
- August 30, 1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
- September 13, 1791 – King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
- September 30, 1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
- November 4, 1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
- November 9, 1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
- November 15, 1791 – The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
- December 4, 1791 – The first edition of The Observer, the world’s first Sunday newspaper, is published.
- December 15, 1791 – The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
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