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 9 » Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
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.
December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
Day of burial June 3, 1791
The temperature on June 3, 1791 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: helder. 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.
May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
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.
September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
October 1 » First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
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