In 1791 James Boswell dedicated his Life of Samuel Johnson to Reynolds.

* 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.

James Wilson, U. S. Supreme Court Justice and professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1790 and 1791, undertook a survey of the philosophical grounds of American property law.

* James Rhea ( 1791 – 1812 ), American soldier

The service was established in 1791 and chain ferry operations were introduced by James Meadows Rendel in 1832.

The Democratic-Republican Party, is the name used by political scientists to describe the political Party organized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791.

President Washington visited Charleston, South Carolina in May 1791 on his " Southern Tour ", and saw the under-construction Charleston County Courthouse designed by Irish architect James Hoban.

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

This may have been partly a result of the advice of James Watt, Junior, that the discovery was not patentable, and partly a result of the commercial failure of his earlier patent of 1791 for an early form of aniline dye.

* James Sherman ( cricketer ) ( 1791 – 1831 ), English cricketer

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.

The 1792 and 1793 almanacs contained lengthy commendations that James McHenry, a signer of the United States Constitution and self-described friend of Banneker, had written in 1791.

* 1791 Caricature of William Pitt by James Gillray

Watkinsville first appeared in Clarke County records in 1791 ; only fifty-eight years after James Edward Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia.

Settled about 1791, on land granted to George Muse, purchased by James Taylor Sr. and settled by his son James Taylor, Jr .. Newport was incorporated as a town in 1795 and in 1850 Newport received a city charter.

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.

* James G. King ( 1791 – 1853 ), businessman and politician who represented from 1849 to 1851.

A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th July: Fox is caricatured by James Gillray | Gillray as toasting the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille with Joseph Priestley and other Dissenters ( 23 July 1791 )

In The Hopes of the Party ( 1791 ), James Gillray | Gillray caricatured Fox with an axe about to strike off the head of George III, in imitation of the French Revolution.

He also worked for the famous publisher John Nichols in several projects, among which was a descriptive catalogue he compiled of James Tassie's collection of pastes and casts of gems, in two quarto volumes ( 1791 ) of laborious industry and bibliographical rarity.

* James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury ( 1791 – 1868 )

* Mackintosh, James ( 1791 ).

He also appears in James Barry's The Thames ( also known as Triumph of Navigation ) that was painted in 1791 for the Society of the Arts and Manufactures.

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

The novel, published in 1791, is among Radcliffe ’ s earlier works.

Burke's " Letter to a Member of the National Assembly ", published in February 1791, was a diatribe against Rousseau, whom he considered the paramount influence on the French Revolution ( his ad hominem attack did not really engage with Rousseau's political writings ).

Cowper is best known, not just for his contribution to the Olney Hymns, but as a poet, letter-writer, and translator: his works include The Diverting History of John Gilpin ( 1782 ), The Task ( 1785 ) and his translation of Homer, published in 1791.

By the time of their association, Stewart had published an ambitious work of original materialist philosophy entitled The Apocalypse of Nature ( London, 1791 ), to which many of Wordsworth's philosophical sentiments are likely indebted.

Both Forsters also published descriptions of their South Pacific travels in the Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen (" Magazine of strange new travel accounts ") in Berlin, and Georg published a translation of " A Voyage to the South Sea, by Lieutenant William Bligh, London 1792 " in 1791 – 1793.

The impressions from the journey were described in a three volume publication Ansichten vom Niederrhein, von Brabant, Flandern, Holland, England und Frankreich im April, Mai und Juni 1790 ( Views of the Lower Rhine, from Brabant, Flanders, Holland, England, and France in April, May and June 1790 ), published 1791 – 1794.

Description of actual travel logs by W. Bligh, published 1791 and 1793 by Georg Forster and his father in Berlin as " Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen ".

The dispersal by the National Guard, under his orders, of the riotous assembly in the Champ de Mars ( 17 July 1791 ) made him extremely unpopular, and he retired to Nantes, where he composed his Mémoires d ' un témoin ( published in 3 vols.

During this period he started his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into blank verse, and his versions ( published in 1791 ) were the most significant English renderings of these epic poems since those of Alexander Pope earlier in the century, although later critics have faulted Cowper's Homer for being too much in the mold of John Milton.

* Johann Wolfgang Goethe wrote a comedy based on Cagliostro's life, also in reference to the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, The Great Cophta ( Der Groß-Coptha ) which was published in 1791.

His journals, which were written for his family and intimate friends were published after his death by his son, William Theobald Wolfe Tone ( 1791 – 1828 ), who was educated by the French government and served with some distinction in the armies of Napoleon, emigrating after Waterloo to America, where he died, in New York City, on 10 October 1828 at the age of 37.

In 1791, he published the material he had written as a book, although he continued to refine his proposals for many years to come.

In 1791, after William Wilberforce's attempt to outlaw the slave trade failed, Barbauld published her Epistle to William Wilberforce Esq.

In France, Joseph D ' Aquin in Chambéry permitted patients to move about freely and published a book in 1791 urging humanitarian reforms, dedicating the second edition in 1804 to Pinel.

First published in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.

The first issue, published on 4 December 1791 by W. S.

Le Jeu de Paume is a moral ode published in 1791 by André Chénier

As an agent of this society he paid a visit to the United States in 1788, and subsequently published in 1791 his Nouveau Voyage dans les États-Unis de l ' Amérique septentrionale ( 3 vols .).

The first American novel is William Hill Brown ’ s The Power of Sympathy published in 1791.

Susanna Rowson is best known for her novel, Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, published in London in 1791.

Meanwhile, Mackintosh was soon absorbed in the question of the time ; and in April 1791, after long meditation, he published his Vindiciae Gallicae, a reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution.

With Taylor ’ s encouragement, Borrow embarked upon his first translation: Von Klinger's version of the Faust legend, entitled Faustus, his Life, Death and Descent into Hell, first published in St. Petersburg in 1791.

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring originally published a clear, accurate and precise system in German ( 1791 – 1796 ), then in Latin ( 1794 – 1800 ).