January 28 » Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
May 28 » French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
July 3 » French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
Day of death March 31, 1791
The temperature on March 31, 1791 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
August 7 » American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
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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