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In 1788 Luigi Cherubini settled in Paris and in 1791 composed Lodoiska, an opera that raised him to fame.
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.
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.
The term " galvanometer ", in common use by 1836, was derived from the surname of Italian electricity researcher Luigi Galvani, who discovered in 1791 that electric current could make a frog's leg jerk.

1791 and published
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 ).

1791 and discovery
Section 1 of the French law of 1791 stated, " All new discoveries are the property of the author ; to assure the inventor the property and temporary enjoyment of his discovery, there shall be delivered to him a patent for five, ten or fifteen years.
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.
The Wardian case was the direct forerunner of the modern terrarium ( and the inspiration for the glass aquarium ), and was invented by Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward ( 1791 – 1868 ), of London, in about 1829 after an accidental discovery inspired him.
Klaproth found the element titanium in the ore rutile in 1791, believing it to be a new discovery, however, William Gregor is credited with the discovery of titanium, having found the metal in a different ore, ( ilmenite ), before Klaproth, although in the same year.
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.
First page of Dousset 1792 French patent for a tontineOn January 7, 1791, France passed a patent law that stated that " Any new discovery or invention, in all types of industry, is owned by its author ...".

1791 and was
`` 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 1791 David was appointed to head the organizing committee for the ceremony, a parade through the streets of Paris to the Panthéon.
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.
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.

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