January 25 » Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
March 9 » After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
March 22 » The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
March 24 » Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
August 12 » Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
November 1 » The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
Day of marriage May 1, 1791
The temperature on May 1, 1791 was about 14.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly east. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
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).
May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
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.
Day of death December 27, 1792
The temperature on December 27, 1792 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed.
January 25 » The London Corresponding Society is founded.
April 20 » France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
May 15 » War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
September 21 » French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.
October 29 » Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
Day of burial December 29, 1792
The temperature on December 29, 1792 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
June 4 » Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
August 16 » Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
September 2 » During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
September 22 » Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
October 13 » In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
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