January 18 » Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
March 9 » Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three year occupation.
May 23 » After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
July 24 » Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
September 16 » James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
October 9 » The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.
Day of death October 3, 1791
The temperature on October 3, 1791 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
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 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
November 9 » Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
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