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.
July 11 » Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
September 2 » The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
September 22 » The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
September 29 » The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
October 5 » French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.
Day of death December 16, 1791
The temperature on December 16, 1791 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. 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.
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.
March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
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