* 1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.

* Haliotis australis Gmelin, 1791 – the Austral abalone

* Haliotis gigantea Gmelin, 1791 – the giant abalone, Awabi

* Haliotis glabra Gmelin, 1791 – the glistening abalone

* Haliotis iris Gmelin, 1791 – the blackfoot abalone, rainbow abalone, or Pāua

* Haliotis ovina Gmelin, 1791 – the sheep's ear abalone

* Haliotis pulcherrima Gmelin, 1791 – the most beautiful abalone

* 1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.

* 1719 – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat ( d. 1791 )

* 1791 – sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.

* 1718 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-English military officer ( d. 1791 )

They were considered a Catholic innovation, not widely practiced until the 18th century, and were opposed vigorously in worship by a number of Protestant Reformers, including Martin Luther ( 1483 – 1546 ), John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ) and John Wesley ( 1703 – 1791 ).

* 1791 – The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman – Habsburg wars.

* Christian Charles Josias Bunsen ( 1791 – 1860 ), Prussian diplomat and scholar

* Frances Bunsen ( 1791 – 1876 ), or Baroness Bunsen, Welsh painter and author, wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen

For example, Panama and El Salvador have declared U. S. currency to be legal tender, and from 1791 – 1857, Spanish silver coins were legal tender in the United States.

Charles Babbage, FRS ( 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871 ) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.

The current resistance to Russian rule has its roots in the late 18th century ( 1785 – 1791 ), a period when Russia expanded into territories formerly under the dominion of Turkey and Persia ( see also the Russo-Turkish Wars and Russo-Persian War ( 1804 – 1813 )), under Mansur Ushurma — a Chechen Naqshbandi ( Sufi ) Sheikh — with wavering support from other North Caucasian tribes.

* 1791 – The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

* 1847 – Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon ( b. 1791 )

* 1716 – Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor ( d. 1791 )

He lost his father in 1791 and his mother in 1795 and was brought up by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

In about 1791 Utamaro gave up designing prints for books and concentrated on making single portraits of women displayed in half-length, rather than the prints of women in groups favoured by other ukiyo-e artists.

King Louis XV, dissatisfied with Clement XIII's action in regard to the Duke of Parma, occupied the Papal States from 1768 to 1774 and substituted French institutions for those in force with the approval of the people of Avignon ; a French party grew up which, after the sanguinary massacres of La Glacière between the adherents of the Papacy and the Republicans ( 16 – 17 October 1791 ), carried all before it, and induced the Constituent Assembly to decree the union of Avignon and the Comtat ( comital district ) Venaissin with France on 14 September 1791.

They remained part of the Pontifical States up to the French Revolution, during which they became part of France in 1791.

The first white settlement in the county was made in 1791 by Amos Todd, Joseph Beebe and Rhoda Todd Beebe, emigrants from Connecticut who paddled up the Tioughnioga River from Windsor, to live near the head of navigation in the Town of Homer.

* That the Bank would have a twenty year charter running from 1791 to 1811, after which time it would be up to the Congress to renew or deny renewal of the bank and its charter ; however, during that time no other federal bank would be authorized ; states, for their part, would be free to charter however many intrastate banks they wished.

In 1791, he moved to London and set up his own engineering business, having by then begun to expand into civil engineering, particularly the construction of canals.

Until 1791, he was one of the main members of the club known later as the Jacobins, of which he drew up the manifesto and first rulebook.

In 1791, she took up residence in Mainz, joining the famous French revolutionary society of the Clubbists ( Klubbisten ), and suffering a short period of imprisonment on account of her political opinions.

In January 1790 he returned to Montpellier, was elected a member of the municipality, co-founded the Jacobin Club in that city, and on the flight to Varennes of King Louis XVI in 1791, he drew up a petition to invite the National Constituent Assembly to proclaim a Republic — the first in date of such petitions.

The club ostensibly supported the monarchy up until the very eve of the republic ; it took no part in the petition of 17 July 1791 for the king's dethronement, nor had it any official share even in the insurrections of 10 June and 10 August 1792.

His Vindiciae Gallicae was the verdict of a philosophic Liberal on the development of the French Revolution up to the spring of 1791.

In 1791, Jeremy Bentham drew up architectural plans ( it was his brother, Samuel Bentham who was the true architect ; Jeremy Bentham was the legal and philosophical brains behind the project ) that took the logic of plague control and transformed it into a plan for controlling people in prisons, workshops, schools and other institutions.

As late as 1791, Rufus Putnam wrote to President Washington that " we shall be so reduced and discouraged as to give up the settlement.

He was repudiated by Pope Pius VI, and in 1791 had to give up the biretta.

Whilst in England King married Anna Josepha Coombe ( His First Cousin ) on 11 March 1791 and returned shortly after on HMS Gorgon to take up his post as Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island, at an annual salary of £ 250.

Ségur took up a sympathetic attitude towards the Revolution at its outset and in 1791 was sent on a mission to Berlin, where he was badly received.

" In 1791 Mary Berry wrote of the Duchess of Devonshire's loss of £ 50, 000 in stocks, " the conversation of the town " that her name was to be " posted up as a lame duck ".

Supportive of the Revolution, he gave up his desk to enter a printer's office, and by 1791 was overseer of the printing department of the Comte de Provence.

Montmorin gave up the portfolio of foreign affairs on 31 October 1791 and was succeeded by De Lessart, the previous minister of finance.

Although Frith never took up residence, on his death in 1791, the property was bought by the Cripps Family of Berkshire.

While the replacement, juror priests often faced a hostile and violent reception in their old parishes On 7 May 1791, the Assembly reversed itself, deciding that the non-juring priests, referred to as prêtres habitués (" habitual priests ") could say Mass and conduct services in other churches on condition that they would respect the laws and not stir up revolt against the Civil Constitution.

Merlin's code abolished confiscation, branding, and life imprisonment, and was based chiefly on the penal code drawn up in September 1791.