March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
July 14 » The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
August 7 » American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
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.
December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
Day of death 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 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 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
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.
November 9 » Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
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