April 28 » Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
June 8 » James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
June 20 » Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
July 27 » The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
September 22 » The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
October 3 » George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.
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
March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
October 1 » First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
November 4 » Northwest Indian War: The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
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