January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
April 7 » Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
April 28 » Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
August 28 » William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
October 2 » The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
November 20 » New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
Day of death January 1, 1791
The temperature on January 1, 1791 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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.
February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
May 3 » The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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
December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
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