* 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.

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

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

The earliest known mention of baseball in the United States was a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance banning the playing of the game within of the town meeting house.

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860 ), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British politician and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.

* 1868 – James Buchanan, American lawyer and politician, 15th President of the United States ( b. 1791 )

* 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives ; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights ; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.

* 1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.

* 1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.

The first short stories in the United Kingdom were gothic tales like Richard Cumberland's " remarkable narrative " " The Poisoner of Montremos " ( 1791 ).

* 1791 – Washington, D. C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.

During his discussions with George Hammond, first British Minister to the U. S. from 1791, Jefferson tried to achieve three important goals: secure British admission of violating the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) ; vacate their posts in the Northwest ( the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River north of the Ohio ); and compensate the United States to pay American slave owners for the slaves whom the British had freed and evacuated at the end of the war.

The Tenth Amendment ( Amendment X ) to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791.

* United States Bill of Rights, completed in 1789, approved in 1791

Ratification for 10 of these proposals is completed on December 5, 1791, creating the United States Bill of Rights.

* June 1 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States ( b. 1791 )

* January 15 – Vermont declares its independence from New York, becoming the Vermont Republic, an independent country, a status it retains until it joins the United States as the 14th state in 1791.

The Vermont Army version of the Green Mountain Boys faded away after Vermont joined the United States as the 14th U. S. state in 1791, although the Green Mountain Boys mustered for the War of 1812, The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and following World War I as the Vermont National Guard.

The Province of Upper Canada ( French: province du Haut-Canada ) was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution.

Madison was at first a Federalist until he opposed the establishment of Hamilton's First Bank of the United States in 1791.

For example, the controversial Bank Bill of 1791 chartered a 20 year corporate monopoly for the First Bank of the United States.

* The United States Bill of Rights ( 1789 – 1791 ; United States ), the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution specified rights of individuals in which government could not interfere, including the rights of free assembly, freedom of religion, trial by jury, and so forth.

Category: 1791 establishments in the United States

Category: 1791 establishments in the United States