Beginning with the slave uprising of 1791, Christophe distinguished himself as a soldier in the Haïtian Revolution and quickly rose to be an officer.

After the uprising of African slaves in the north of Saint-Domingue in 1791, Boyer joined with the French Commissioners and went there to fight against the grand blancs ( plantation owners ) and royalists.

Jean-Jacques Dessalines worked for him for about three years until the slave uprising of 1791, which spread across the Plaine du Nord.

Many gens de couleur, mixed-race residents of the colony, asserted that they could form the military backbone of Saint-Domingue if they were given rights, but Sonthonax rejected this view as outdated in the wake of the August 1791 slave uprising.

Following the French Revolution of 1789, the gens de couleur led a rebellion to gain the voting and political rights which they believed were due them as French citizens ; this was before the slave uprising of 1791.

Although the slaves were not expected to participate in a rebellion, suddenly on August 22, 1791, a great slave uprising plunged the country into civil war.

Many gens de couleur ( mixed-race residents of the colony ) asserted that they could form the military backbone of Saint-Domingue if they were given rights, but Sonthonax rejected this view as outdated in the wake of the August 1791 slave uprising.

1791 ) was an Haitian priest who conducted a religious ceremony in Haiti in which a freedom covenant was affirmed ; this ceremony is considered a catalyst to the slave uprising that marked the beginning of the Haïtian Revolution.

The Ogé revolt of 1790 foretold the massive slave uprising of August 1791 that began the Haïtian Revolution.

In 1791 he tried without success to begin an uprising in Savoy, in 1792 he organized the Légion des Allobroges, and in the following years he served at the siege of Toulon, in the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees, and in the Army of Italy.

Beginning in 1791, Montmorin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, started to organize covert resistance to the Revolutionary forces.

In 1791, he started granting leases for houses to be built in the manor.

About 1791 he started in business as a mechanical engineer on his own account in Holland Street, Blackfriars, whence he and his successors long conducted engineering operations of vast importance.

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.

Attempts of formal treatment of mathematics had started with Leibniz and Lambert ( 1728 – 1777 ), and continued with works by algebraists such as George Peacock ( 1791 – 1858 ).

Leclerc started his military career in 1791 during the French Revolution as one of the army volunteers of Seine-et-Oise and passed through the ranks of sous-lieutenant in the 12th Cavalry, then aide-de-camp to general Lapoype.

In 1791, sixty members started the Federal Library.

At the beginning of 1791, Jones started holding religious services at FAS.

Work on building the mill started in 1791 and it was first recorded as working in 1797.

It was started after the bulk of The Magic Flute, the last opera that Mozart worked on, was already written ( Mozart completed The Magic Flute after the Prague premiere of Tito on 6 September 1791 ).

Yet another war with Russia and Austria started in 1787 ; it ended by Austria with the 1791 Treaty of Sistova, and with the 1792 Treaty of Jassy with Russia.

He escaped from that plantation and became a maroon, so when the Haitian revolution started in August 1791 he had already enjoyed a direct experience of freedom.

Commercial sealing in Australasia appears to have started with Eber Bunker, master of the William and Ann who announced his intention in November 1791 to visit Dusky Sound in New Zealand, did call in that country and had skins on board when he got back to Britain.

In 1791 he started a weekly publication called The Bee, which was largely written by himself, and of which 18 volumes were published.

It started in his lifetime in 1791 and continued after his death.

He started his own firm ( Gogel, Pluvinot en Gildemeester ) in 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.

In 1791, Congress imposed an excise tax on distilled spirits, which led to protests in frontier districts, especially Pennsylvania.

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.