On October 25, 1791 Washington appealed a third time to Congress, " A uniformity of the weights and measures of the country is among the important objects submitted to you by the Constitution and if it can be derived from a standard at once invariable and universal, must be no less honorable to the public council than conducive to the public convenience.

After the first group of Senators was elected to the First Congress ( 1789 – 1791 ), the Senators were divide into three " classes " as nearly equal in size as possible, as required by this section.

* April 13 – Isaac Low, New York delegate to the Continental Congress ( d. 1791 )

In January 1791, at the request of Congress, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton issued a report on the currency.

Following his army service, Howard held several electoral political positions: elected to the Continental Congress of 1788 ; Governor of Maryland for three one-year terms, 1789 through 1791 ; State Senator from 1791 through 1795 ; and Presidential Elector in 1792.

The First Bank of the United States was a central bank, chartered for a term of twenty years, by the United States Congress on February 25, 1791.

* 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.

* Dyre Kearney ( died 1791 ), American lawyer and delegate for Delaware to the Continental Congress

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.

In 1791, he served a year in the Second United States Congress as a U. S. Representative of Georgia but lost his seat during a debate over his residency qualifications and declined to run for re-election in 1792.

* John Winston Jones, ( 1791 – 1848 ), born in Amelia county, United States Congress Speaker of the House.

This tax had been proposed by United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, passed by Congress, and signed into law by President Washington in 1791.

August, 1818-Arthur St. Clair, General in the Continental Army, member of the Continental Congress and the 9th President of the United States in Congress Assembled in 1798, the first Governor of the Northwest Territory, the first Commander of the U. S. Army, 1791 – 92 ) died in poverty on the Old State Road between Ligonier and Youngstown, when he was riding a wagon into town and probably had a stroke.

* Text of the 1791 excise act from the Library of Congress

* Anne-César, Chevalier de la Luzerne ( 1741 – 1791 ), the French ambassador to the Second Continental Congress and the Congress of the Confederation from 1779 to 1784

Muhlenberg was also the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, including for the First Congress ( 1789 – 1791 ) and Third Congress ( 1793 – 1795 ).

As early as 1791, Thomas Jefferson proposed that the marks of sailcloth makers could be protected under the Commerce Clause, but it was not until 1870 that Congress first attempted to establish a federal regime for the protection of trademarks.

The 1st United States Congress, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, met from March 4, 1789 to March 3, 1791, during the first two years of George Washington's presidency, first at Federal Hall in New York City and later at Congress Hall in Philadelphia.

Held December 6, 1790 through March 3, 1791 at Congress Hall in Philadelphia

A dwelling tax ( impôt sur les portes et fenêtres, similar to the English window-tax ) was imposed in 1791.

It also was a highly coveted sundry and when an additional excise tax was levied against it, the Whiskey Rebellion erupted in 1791.

The whiskey excise act, sometimes known as the " Whiskey Act ", became law in March 1791.

When Congress passed a bill imposing a duty on spirits distilled in the United States in 1791, Clymer was placed as head of the excise department, in the state of Pennsylvania.

Although the United States government has never used a general sales tax, an excise tax on whiskey enacted in 1791 was one of its first fund raising efforts.

The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington.

On September 11, 1791, a recently appointed tax collector named Robert Johnson was tarred and feathered by a disguised gang in Washington County.

Because of these and other violent attacks, the tax went uncollected in 1791 and early 1792.

It is located close to the location of an old toll gate on the road to Sèvres, part of the Wall of the Farmers-General, which was built around Paris between 1784 and 1791 by the Ferme générale company of tax farmers.

The station is named after the Rue de la Gaîté, which was a country road connecting Clamart with the Barrière du Montparnasse, a gate in the Wall of the Farmers-General at the intersection of the Boulevard Edgar-Quinet and the Rue du Montparnasse ( the location of Edgar Quinet station ), built between 1784 and 1791 by the Ferme générale, the corporation of tax farmers, to enforce the collection of taxes of goods, including wine, imported into Paris.

Everything produced would then be hidden from the government in order to avoid the whiskey tax of 1791.

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

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.

After a brief return to his regiment Napoleon was promoted to First Lieutenant and came home again on leave in 1791.

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.

The parish register of St. Mary's Newington, London, shows that Babbage was baptised on 6 January 1792, supporting a birth year of 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 June 1791, the King made an ill-fated attempt to flee the country ( flight to Varennes ), but was apprehended short of his goal on the Austrian Belgian border and was forced to return under guard to Paris.

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.

But Mirabeau died on 2 April 1791 and, before the end of the year, the new Legislative Assembly adopted this draconian measure.

The return of the royal family to Paris on 25 June 1791, after their failed flight to Varennes

With this capstone, the National Constituent Assembly adjourned in a final session on 30 September 1791.

The Legislative Assembly first met on 1 October 1791, and degenerated into chaos less than a year later.

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

Franz Bopp ( September 14, 1791, Mainz – October 23, 1867, Berlin ) was a German linguist known for extensive comparative work on Indo-European languages.

Giovanni Aldini ( April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834 ), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini ( 1756 – 1826 ) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.

Vancouver was " mortified " ( his word ) to learn they already had a crude chart of the Strait of Georgia based on the 1791 exploratory voyage of José María Narváez the year before, under command of Francisco de Eliza.

* Taylor, Thomas, A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, 1791.

The Legislative Assembly first met on 1 October 1791 and degenerated into chaos less than a year later.

The production of an alkali on a large scale became an important goal as well, and Nicolas Leblanc succeeded in 1791 in introducing a method for the production of sodium carbonate.

Reynolds agreed with Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and, writing in early 1791, expressed his belief that the ancien régime of France had fallen due to spending too much time tending " to the splendor of the foliage, to the neglect of the stirring the earth about the roots.