`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.

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

* 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.

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.

* Hargrove, Ely ( 1792 ) Anecdotes of Archery ; from the earliest ages to the year 1791.

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

Mozart's Davide penitente ( 1785 ), his Piano Concerto in E flat major ( 1785 ), the Clarinet Quintet ( 1789 ) and the great Symphony in G minor ( 1788 ) had been premiered on the suggestion of Salieri, who supposedly conducted a performance of it in 1791.

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

In 1791 he was advised that the government would send out two convoys of convicts annually, plus adequate supplies.

After a brief return to his regiment Napoleon was promoted to First Lieutenant and came home again on leave in 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.

However, in a 1791 Japanese wood-block illustration, a specifically dream-destroying baku is depicted with an elephant ’ s head, tusks, and trunk, with horns and tiger ’ s claws.

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.

In 1788 Luigi Cherubini settled in Paris and in 1791 composed Lodoiska, an opera that raised him to fame.

He concentrated more on the piano than any other instrument, and his time in London in 1791 and 1792 generated the composition and publication in 1793 of three piano sonatas, opus 2, which idiomatically used Mozart's techniques of avoiding the expected cadence, and Clementi's sometimes modally uncertain virtuoso figuration.

Another key event was the Haitian Revolution in nearby Saint-Domingue, from 1791 to 1804.

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.

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.

However after the obituary appeared, a nephew wrote to say that Charles Babbage was born one year earlier, in 1791.

* Sir William Reid ( b. April 25, 1791, Kinglassie-d. October 31, 1858, London, England ), governor of Bermuda ( 1839 – 46 ), Barbados ( 1846 – 48 ), and Malta ( 1851 – 58 ); knighted 1851

* Sir Provo Wallis ( 1791 – 1892 ) was the last Royal Navy officer.

In 1791 Lawrence was elected an associate of the Royal Academy and the following year, on the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds, King George III appointed him " painter-in-ordinary to his majesty ".

* St David's Cathedral, new west front ( 1789 – 1791 ) completely remodelled by Sir George Gilbert Scott ( 1862 ).

His father was Henry Liddell, Rector of Easington ( 1787 – 1872 ), the younger son of Sir Henry Liddell, 5th Baronet ( 1749 – 1791 ) and the former Elizabeth Steele.

In 1791, he was sent as a temporary envoy-extraordinary to Austria, while Sir Robert Keith was ill.

He was the son of Edward Acton, a physician at Besançon, and was born there in 1736, succeeding to the title and estates in 1791, on the death of his second cousin once removed, Sir Richard Acton of Aldenham Hall, Shropshire.

Sir Joseph Banks, when proposing the construction of the Horncastle Canal knew that the problem needed addressing, and William Jessop was commissioned to survey the Witham and the Fossdyke in 1791, with particular reference to the junction between the two.

" He was buried wrapped in a military cloak in the ramparts of the town ; the funeral is celebrated in a well known poem by Charles Wolfe ( 1791 – 1823 ), " The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna ", which begins:

Sir William was smitten with Emma and, to Greville's shock, married her on 6 September 1791 at Saint Mary-le-bone, Middlesex, England ; she was twenty-six and he was sixty.

* Sir James Stirling ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1791 – 1865 ), Governor of Western Australia

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, GCB ( 12 May 1791 – 13 February 1892 ) was a Royal Navy officer and naval war hero.

In 1791, Sir Francis Scott, 3rd Baronet, inherited the manor of Great Barr from his maternal uncle Thomas Hoo and was able to return to live in the house on the expiry of the lease.

* Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto ( 1791 – 1863 ), lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada, kinsman of John Robinson ( 1650 – 1723 )

Sir William Snow Harris ( 1 April 1791 – 22 January 1867 ) was an English physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships.

* January 31 — Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto, lawyer, judge and political figure ( born 1791 )

* J. K. Laughton, " Spencer, Sir Robert Cavendish ( 1791 – 1830 )", rev.

The latter's half-brother Laurence Harman Parsons was in 1792 raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Oxmantown, with remainder to his nephew Sir Lawrence Parsons, 5th Baronet, who had succeeded his father the fourth Baronet in 1791.

* Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet ( 1731 – 1791 )

Sir Thomas Wyse KCB ( 24 December 1791 – 16 April 1862 ), an Irish politician and diplomat, belonged to a family claiming descent from a Devon squire, Andrew Wyse, who is said to have crossed over to Ireland during the reign of Henry II and obtained lands near Waterford, of which city thirty-three members of the family are said to have been mayors or other municipal officers.

* Sir Gerard Vanneck, 2nd Baronet ( c. 1743 – 1791 )

* Sir Henry George Liddell, 5th Baronet ( 1749 – 1791 ) High Sheriff of Northumberland 1785

* Sir Robert Gerard, 10th Baronet ( d. 1791 )

* Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet ( 1712 – 1791 )