March 17 » American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
May 13 » The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become the U.S. state of Tennessee, providing for democratic government and a formal system of justice.
May 19 » New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
September 11 » American Revolutionary War: Sugarloaf Massacre: A small detachment of militia from Northampton County are attacked by Native Americans and Loyalists near Little Nescopeck Creek.
October 2 » American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
November 9 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
Day of death December 22, 1791
The temperature on December 22, 1791 was about -2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
January 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
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.
September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
November 9 » Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
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