March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
May 3 » The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
June 21 » King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
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 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
Christening day July 2, 1791
The temperature on July 2, 1791 was about 15.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
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 3 » The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
July 14 » The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
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