April 7 » Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
June 14 » Mutiny on the Bounty: HMSBounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400km (4,600mi) journey in an open boat.
July 12 » In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
August 26 » The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
August 28 » William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
October 3 » George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.
Day of death January 5, 1791
The temperature on January 5, 1791 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen winderig. Source: KNMI
January 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
June 21 » King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
August 14 » Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
September 9 » Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
November 9 » Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
Day of burial January 8, 1791
The temperature on January 8, 1791 was about 6.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken. 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 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National 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.
December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
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