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

Olympe de Gouges was the author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 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.

By 1791, the last ten of the proposed amendments were ratified and became the Bill of Rights.

The first ten constitutional amendments ratified by three-fourths of the states in 1791 are known as the Bill of Rights.

To provide such guarantees, the First Amendment ( along with the rest of the Bill of Rights ) was submitted to the states for ratification on September 25, 1789, and adopted on December 15, 1791.

It was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights.

The Eighth Amendment was adopted, as part of the Bill of Rights, in 1791.

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

The first ten ( the Bill of Rights ) were adopted in 1791, the Eleventh Amendment in 1795 and the Twelfth Amendment in 1804.

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

Central documents include the Declaration of Independence ( 1776 ), the Constitution ( 1787 ), the Federalist Papers ( 1788 ), the Bill of Rights ( 1791 ), and Lincoln's " Gettysburg Address " ( 1863 ), among others.

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

* 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.

Presented in the United States House of Representatives by Representative James Madison of Virginia, this amendment was the second of the twelve Constitutional amendments originally submitted to the state legislatures for ratification by the 1st Congress on September 25, 1789, the last ten of which became the United States Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791.

Sympathetic to the early ideals of the French Revolution, Holcroft assisted in the publication of the first part of Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man in 1791 He joined the Society for Constitutional Information ( SCI ) in 1792 and was appointed a member of a liaison committee to work with the LCS in early 1794.

In 1790, the approximate 2, 500 Jews in America faced a number of legal restrictions in various states that prevented non-Christians from holding public office and voting, but Delaware, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Georgia soon eliminated these barriers, as did the Bill of Rights in 1791 generally.

In 1791, they issued a petition to Emperor Leopold II of Austria, named Supplex Libellus Valachorum based on the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, demanding equal political rights with the other ethnicities for the Romanians in Transylvania and thus starting the movement of national awakening.

* December 15, 1791: The United States Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, were ratified by the states.

Rights of Man ( 1791 ), a book by Thomas Paine, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard its people, their natural rights, and their national interests.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified along with the rest of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791, included the following words :" Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ..."

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man ( 1791 ) was published during his residence at 154 New Cavendish Street, in reply to Edmund Burke ( author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 ), who lived at 18 Charlotte Street.

In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen ( 1791 ), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality.

Olympe de Gouges wrote her famous Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen shortly after the French constitution of 1791 was created in the same year.

In 1791 a Royal Commission on the Isle of Man was formed to examine the governance and finances of the island.

In 1791, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen elicited an immediate response from the writer Olympe de Gouges who amended it as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, arguing that if women were accountable to the law they must also be given equal responsibility under the law.

In 1791 the English radical Thomas Paine wrote in his Rights of Man that " Had Mr. Burke possessed talents similar to the author ‘ On the Wealth of Nations ,’ he would have comprehended all the parts which enter into, and, by assemblage, form a constitution ".

The Declaration of the Rights of Man, adopted on 26 August 1789 eventually became the preamble of the constitution adopted in 3 September 1791.

Hartley edited his father's well-known Observations on Man, in London 1791 and ( with notes and additions ) in 1801.

The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen was published in 1791 and is modelled on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789.

In the wake of the French Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote The Rights of Man ( 1791 ) as a response to Burke's counterrevolutionary essay Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ), itself an attack on Richard Price's sermon that kicked off the so-called " pamphlet war " known as the Revolution Controversy.

But, her will was invalidated by Parlement in 1274 One specific bequest in Alphonse's will, giving his wife's lands in the Comtat Venaissin to the Holy See, was allowed, and it became a Papal territory, a status that it retained until 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 ).

When Quebec was divided into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791, the first Act passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada was to adopt the law of England for all purposes, replacing the civil law.

The declaration of independence by the 13 British colonies of North America, and the victory of the French Revolution of 1789, influenced early Cuban liberation movements, as did the successful revolt of black slaves in Haiti in 1791.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, there were several watermills which ground corn and made paper, with 13 mills on the Yeo at the peak, declining to seven by 1791 and just three by 1915.

In 1791, the company's stock was bought by the Dutch government, and on 1 January 1792, all territories previously held by the Dutch West India Company reverted to the rule of the States-General of the Dutch Republic.

In 1791, Luigi Galvani published his discovery of bioelectricity, demonstrating that electricity was the medium by which nerve cells passed signals to the muscles.

In the late 18th century the Italian physician and anatomist Luigi Galvani marked the birth of electrochemistry by establishing a bridge between chemical reactions and electricity on his essay " De Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari Commentarius " ( Latin for Commentary on the Effect of Electricity on Muscular Motion ) in 1791 where he proposed a " nerveo-electrical substance " on biological life forms.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

The strain told on Leopold and by the winter of 1791, he became ill.

It ended with a victory by the monarchists, who declared independence in 1791.

Contemporaneously to English Gothic, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir (" black novel ") in France, by such writers as François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, Gaston Leroux, Baculard d ' Arnaud, and Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Madame de Genlis and the Schauerroman (" shudder novel ") in Germany by such writers as Friedrich Schiller, author of The Ghost-Seer ( 1789 ) and Christian Heinrich Spiess, author of Das Petermännchen ( 1791 / 92 ).

The Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, with the 1791 Francisco de Eliza expedition preceding Vancouver by a year, had also missed the Fraser River although they knew from its muddy plume that there was a major river located nearby.

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

German music, sponsored by the upper classes, came of age under composers Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ).

Ireland's first mail coach services were contracted with the government by John Anderson with William Bourne in 1791 who also paid to improve the condition of the roads.

Breaking with Hamilton and what became the Federalist Party in 1791, Madison and Thomas Jefferson organized what they called the Republican Party ( later called by historians the Democratic-Republican Party ) He co-authored, along with Thomas Jefferson, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 to protest the Alien and Sedition Acts.

He soon joined the " Democratic-Republican " faction led by Jefferson and Madison, and by 1791 was the party leader in the Senate.