January 30 » Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
April 20 » George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
June 20 » Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
July 14 » Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
September 11 » Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
September 29 » The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
Day of death February 9, 1791
The temperature on February 9, 1791 was about 5.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
November 9 » Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
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