January 10 » The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
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 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
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.
Christening day March 20, 1791
The temperature on March 20, 1791 was about 8.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 7 » American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
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 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
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