1791

Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s

Years: 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 - 1791 - 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796

Events

• January 25 - The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada
• March 3 - The United States Mint is created by the United States Congress.
• March 4 - Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
• May 3 - Constitution of third May the first written constitution in Europe, proclaimed by Polish Sejm (Parliament)
• July 14 - The Priestley Riots in Birmingham, England.
• December 4 - The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
• December 15 - The United States Bill of Rights is passed.

Ongoing events

• French Revolution (1789-1799)

Year in topic

• 1791 in literature:
  • Celestina - Charlotte Turner Smith
  • A Sicilian Romance - Ann Radcliffe
  • Adventures of King Richard Coeur-de-Lion - James White
• 1791 in music
• 1791 in science

Births

• January 15 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian lyricist (&(+ 1872)
• February 21 - John Mercer, chemist and industrialist (+ 1866)
• April 27 - Samuel Morse, U.S. inventor
• December 26 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines
• Michael Faraday - English scientist

Deaths

• May 9 - Francis Hopkinson, American author and signer of the Declaration of Independence
• December 5 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Austrian composer

Heads of state in 1791

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)

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