David set out in 1790 to transform the contemporary event into a major historical picture which would appear at the Salon of 1791 as a large pen and ink drawing.

* February 27 – Johann David Michaelis, German biblical scholar and teacher ( d. 1791 )

These include: Potter's Tavern, said to have been built in the 1750s, but restored to its appearance in 1776 when it was home to The Plain Dealer, considered New Jersey's first newspaper ; Brearley ( Masonic ) Lodge, founded by General James Giles in 1795, and still active ; the so-called " Nail House " ( c. 1815 ; second build c. 1855 ), administrative home of the Cumberland Nail & Iron Works that established Bridgeton's industrial prowess in the early nineteenth century ; the first Cumberland National Bank building ( 1816 ), only the second bank chartered in New Jersey ( now part of the Bridgeton Library ); and the David Sheppard House ( 1791 ), recently restored with assistance from the Garden State Historic Trust and home to the Cousteau Coastal Center of Rutgers University since 2008.

from the German, with A Sketch of the Life and Character of David Hartley by his son David Hartley, 1791 ; 1st edn repr.

Johann David Michaelis ( 27 February 1717 – 22 August 1791 ), a famous and eloquent German biblical scholar and teacher, was a member of a family which had the chief part in maintaining that solid discipline in Hebrew and the cognate languages which distinguished the University of Halle in the period of Pietism.

Associated with these views was a group of deputies from elsewhere, of whom the most notable were the Marquis de Condorcet, Claude Fauchet, Marc David Lasource, Maximin Isnard, the Comte de Kersaint, Henri Larivière, and, above all, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Jean Marie Roland and Jérôme Pétion, elected mayor of Paris in succession to Jean Sylvain Bailly on 16 November 1791.

The first white settlers, around 1791 included: Josiah Patterson, Ebenezer Tracy, Edward Edwards, David Manning, Eliphalet Parsons and Whittlesey Gleason.

The Tennis Court Oath ( 1791 ), by J-L David

The painting was never finished, but an immense drawing was exhibited in 1791 along side the Oath of the Horatii As in the Oath of the Horatii, David conveys the unity of minds and bodies in the service of the patriotic ideal.

* Marian Lines ( 1933-) Actress & Writer-4th Cousin ( both descended from David Berry, 1791 – 1854, and Catherine Scott, 1793 – 1875 )

On 15 April 1791, Carroll and David Stuart, as the official commissioners of Congress, laid the cornerstone of the District of Columbia at Jones Point near Alexandria, Virginia.

Nearly a century passed before a route for the canal was surveyed by David Rittenhouse and William Smith between 1762 and 1770, the first canal ever surveyed in the U. S. Spurred by the 1791 discovery of anthracite in the upper Susquehanna Valley, the Pennsylvania General Assembly chartered two companies to undertake the project: the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Canal Company and the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company.

David Henshaw ( April 2, 1791 – November 11, 1852 ) was the 14th United States Secretary of the Navy.

In January 1791, the President proceeded to appoint, in accordance with the Residence Act, a three-member commission, consisting of Daniel Carroll, Thomas Johnson and David Stuart, to oversee the surveying of the federal district, and appointed Andrew Ellicott as surveyor.

This was followed in 1791 by a large catalogue, in two volumes quarto, with illustrations etched by David Allan, and descriptive text in English and French by Rudolf Erich Raspe, enumerating nearly 16, 000 pieces.

His elder brother George ( 1791 – 1862 ), a portrait-painter, was also a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, and his younger brother David ( d. 1874 ) practised as a landscape-painter.

Pursuant to the Residence Act, President Washington appointed three commissioners ( Thomas Johnson, Daniel Carroll, and David Stuart ) in 1791 to supervise the planning, design and acquisition of property in the federal district and capital city.

* David II ( 1784 – 1789, 1790 – 1791 )

`` 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.

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.

In his last surviving letter from 14 October 1791, Mozart tells his wife that he collected Salieri and Caterina Cavalieri in his carriage and drove them both to the opera ; about Salieri's attendance at his opera The Magic Flute, speaking enthusiastically: " He heard and saw with all his attention, and from the overture to the last choir there was not a piece that didn't elicit a ' Bravo!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Francis Hopkinson ( September 21, 1737 – May 9, 1791 ), an American author, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New Jersey.

Mignet argued that the " constitution of 1791 ... was the work of the middle class, then the strongest ; for, as is well known, the predominant force ever takes possession of institutions ...

Olympe de Gouges was the author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791.

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 ).

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.

After the Patriote Rebellion was crushed by the British army and Loyal volunteers, the 1791 Constitution was suspended on 27 March 1838 and a special council was appointed to administer the colony.

In March 1791, Babeuf was appointed commissioner to report on the national property ( biens nationaux ) in the town, and in September 1792 was elected a member of the council-general of the département of the Somme.

In 1786 he was appointed by Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg director of the new observatory on Seeberg hill at Gotha, which was finished in 1791.

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 ".

Tuckerton became a Port of Entry of the United States, but not the third port as is commonly believed, with Ebenezer Tucker appointed Collector ; his commission bearing date March 21, 1791 signed by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

April 8, 1789, he was appointed president of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Session ; was associate judge of Fayette County in 1791 ; and from 1796 to 1798 treasurer of Westmoreland County.

George Washington defined the revenue districts, appointed the revenue supervisors and inspectors, and set their pay in November 1791.

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

In 1790, Latrobe was appointed Surveyor of the Public Offices in London, and established his own private practice in 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.

He later moved to Bavaria and entered government service there, being appointed Bavarian Army Minister and re-organizing the army, and, in 1791, was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1771, Beccaria was made a member of the supreme economic council, and in 1791 he was appointed to the board for the reform of the judicial code, where he made a valuable contribution.

On 21 June 1791 he was chosen one of three commissioners appointed to bring back the king from Varennes, and he has left a fatuous account of the journey.

In 1791 he was appointed president of the Lübeck episcopal court at Eutin ; he resigned this office in 1800, retiring to Münster in Westphalia.

In 1781 he was appointed councillor in the cour des monnaies, and was advanced in 1791 to be a commissary-general in the same department.

On August 22, 1791, Bradford was appointed to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and served for three years.

In 1791 as a maréchal de camp he was appointed to a command at Metz, where he rendered important service in improving the discipline of the troops.

In 1791 he was appointed deputy, and in 1792 titular professor at the Collège de France.

In 1791, Chew was appointed by Pennsylvania ’ s first Governor and the former President of the Continental Congress, Thomas Mifflin, to preside as the President over Pennsylvania's first High Court of Errors and Appeals, a position which he retired from in 1808.

The Constitutional Act of 1791 had established three branches of government: the Legislative Assembly, an elected lower house ; the Legislative Council, an appointed upper house ; and the Executive Council, which acted as a kind of cabinet for the lieutenant governor.

A Royal Commission was appointed in 1791, but it was not until 1866 that Tynwald finally passed legislation that would see its members elected for the first time.

In 1791 he was appointed co-Paymaster of the Forces, having been made Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1790.

He was appointed Field Marshal in 1773, Privy Councillor in 1776, and Governor-General of Pomerania between 1776 and 1791.

In October 1791, Soane was appointed Clerk of Works with responsibility for St James's Palace, Whitehall and The Palace of Westminster.