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In 1791 Thornton played a major part in the establishment of the Sierra Leone Company, which took over the failed attempt by Granville Sharp to create a colony for the settlement for freed slaves in Africa.
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Peacock was born on 9 April 1791 at Thornton Hall, Denton, near Darlington, County Durham.
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Constantly monitored by revolutionary spies within her own household, the queen played little or no part in the writing of the French Constitution of 1791, which greatly weakened the king's authority.
From 1789 to 1795 he played all sorts of parts ; he worked as a scene painter at Liverpool in 1791 ; and during this period he composed more than 1, 000 songs.
In this the two sons, Rudolf ( 1791 – 1833 ) and Gottlieb ( 1793 – 1829 ), of Johann Rudolf Meyer, played the chief parts.
In 1791, Joseph Haydn, who was in London at the same time as young Hummel, composed a sonata in A-flat for Hummel, who played its premiere in the Hanover Square Rooms in Haydn's presence.
Rosetti is also known for writing the Requiem ( 1776 ) which was played at a memorial for Mozart in December 1791.
He moved to Amsterdam in 1791 where he played flute in two orchestras and was soloist in Mozart and Beethoven piano concertos, giving them their Dutch premieres.
He played two first-class matches in the 1791 season but then was unavailable until the 1795 season while he completed his studies.
1791 and major
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.
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.
The Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, with the 1791 Francisco de Eliza expedition preceding Vancouver by a year, had also missed the Fraser River although they knew from its muddy plume that there was a major river located nearby.
* 1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
In 1791, The first Bank of the United States was brought into being as one of three major financial innovations proposed and supported by Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury.
The Western Indian Confederacy achieved major victories over U. S. forces in 1790 and 1791 under the leadership of Blue Jacket of the Shawnees and Little Turtle of the Miamis.
When Vermont was admitted into the Union in 1791, in the major towns there were totally 9, 267 people.
Chief among these was the perception that the government was not adequately protecting the western frontier: the Northwest Indian War was going badly for the United States, with major losses in 1791.
Returning to France, he joined the Revolution with enthusiasm, and distinguished himself by organizing the popular armed force which became involved in all major insurrections of the capital: the march of women on October 5-6 ( 1789 ), Champ-de-Mars massacre ( 1791 ), and the Storming of the Tuileries Palace ( 1792 ).
Other major names are Rupa Bhavani ( 1621 – 1721 ), Arnimal ( d. 1800 ), Mahmud Gami ( 1765 – 1855 ), Rasul Mir ( d. 1870 ), Paramananda ( 1791 – 1864 ), Maqbool Shah Kralawari ( 1820 – 1976 ).
* Erection of the Bank Stock Office the first of his major interiors at the bank, with its fire proof brick vault ( 1791 – 96 ).
Although Pachelbel was renowned in his lifetime for his chamber works, Mozart employed it both for a passage in Die Zauberflöte ( 1791 ), at the moment where the three boys first appear and in the last movement of his Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488 ( 1786 ).
His first major success was Lodoïska ( 1791 ), which was admired for its realistic heroism.
On 25 December 1791 he presented at the tribune of the Legislative Assembly his Petition contre les princes, which would have major influence during the First French Empire.
His other major work is When the King Took Flight ( 2004 ), a study of the rise of republicanism and radicalism in the Legislative Assembly in 1791 / 2.
He joined the 2nd battalion of the 1st Foot in January 1791, and purchased the rank of major in the 2nd Foot in June 1792.
* Queen of the Night, or Königin der Nacht, a major character in the 1791 Mozart opera The Magic Flute
He was gazetted ensign in 1787, lieutenant in 1791 and major in 1800, after being held in a French prison for six months in 1798.
William Orlando Butler ( April 19, 1791 – August 6, 1880 ) was a U. S. political figure and U. S. Army major general from Kentucky.
Mozart's Clarinet concerto in A major, K. 622 was written in 1791 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler.
The U. S. Army, consisting of mostly untrained recruits supported by equally untrained militiamen, suffered a series of major defeats, including the Harmar Campaign ( 1790 ) and St. Clair's Defeat ( 1791 ), which were resounding Indian victories.
The Symphony No. 96 in D major, Hoboken I / 96, was completed by Joseph Haydn in 1791 as part of the set of symphonies composed on his first trip to London.
In the area of Piedade, another chapel was constructed in the name of Nossa Senhora da Piedade, and ordered constructed by João Dias Caridade at the beginning of the 16th-Century, and subject to major renovations in 1791.
The lack of major towns or industries did not seem to worry the proposers, and an Act of Parliament was obtained on 13 May 1791, which allowed the Proprietors to raise £ 150, 000, with another £ 40, 000 if necessary.
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In 1791 France became the first nation to decriminalise homosexuality, probably thanks in part to the homosexual Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès who was one of the authors of the Napoleonic code.
At the time the region was part of British North America and became part of Upper Canada after the Constitutional Act of 1791.
In 1788, while part of the Province of Quebec ( 1763 – 1791 ), southern Ontario was divided into four districts: Hesse, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Nassau.
The Eighth Amendment was adopted, as part of the Bill of Rights, in 1791.
The Ninth Amendment became part of the Constitution on December 15, 1791 upon ratification by three-fourths of the states.
The Tenth Amendment ( Amendment X ) to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791.
They remained part of the Pontifical States up to the French Revolution, during which they became part of France in 1791.
Following the abdication of the last Margrave, Charles Alexander, from the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth on 2 December 1791 its territories became part of a Prussian province.
Present day Cortland County became part of Herkimer County in 1791, then became a part of Onondaga County when it split from Herkimer in 1794.
Franklin County is part of Macomb's Purchase of 1791.
Jefferson County is part of Macomb's Purchase of 1791.
It was created in 1791 north of the Mohawk River out of part of Montgomery County.
Lewis County is part of Macomb's Purchase of 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.
Pandora ran aground on part of the Great Barrier Reef on 29 August 1791, with the loss of 31 of the crew and four of the prisoners.
The British colony of the Province of Quebec was divided by the Constitutional Act of 1791 into two separate provinces, with the Ottawa River forming a part of the border.
About 10 years after Virginia gained its independence from Great Britain, Mathews County was established in 1791 from part of Gloucester County.
A small part of Richland later went to Kershaw County ( 1791 ).
Originally part of Camden District, Kershaw County was formed in 1791 from parts of Claremont, Lancaster, Fairfield, and Richland counties.
County designations kept changing, as it was part of Granville County from 1746 – 1752 ; included in Orange County until 1778 ; and part of Caswell County until 1791 / 1792.
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