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1791 Historical Event(s)
- January 2, 1791 – Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War
- March 4, 1791 – Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state.
- August 4, 1791 – The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
- August 22, 1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
- 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 28, 1791 – France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
- October 1, 1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
- November 4, 1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
- December 15, 1791 – The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
Who Were Born On 1791?
- February 12, 1791 – Peter Cooper, American Industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (d. 1883)
- April 27, 1791 – Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
- June 21, 1791 – Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
- July 26, 1791 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1844)
- September 14, 1791 – Franz Bopp, German linguist (d. 1867)
- September 22, 1791 – Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
- September 23, 1791 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
- November 11, 1791 – Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
- November 30, 1791 – Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg, Austrian soldier and statesman (d. 1848)
- December 26, 1791 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (d. 1871)