1791

Years: 1788 1789 1790 - 1791 - 1792 1793 1794

Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1791 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 1791 MDCCXCI Ab urbe condita 2544 Armenian calendar 1240 ԹՎ ՌՄԽ Assyrian calendar 6541 Balinese saka calendar 1712–1713 Bengali calendar 1198 Berber calendar 2741 British Regnal year 31 Geo. 3 – 32 Geo. 3 Buddhist calendar 2335 Burmese calendar 1153 Byzantine calendar 7299–7300 Chinese calendar 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4488 or 4281     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4489 or 4282 Coptic calendar 1507–1508 Discordian calendar 2957 Ethiopian calendar 1783–1784 Hebrew calendar 5551–5552 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1847–1848  - Shaka Samvat 1712–1713  - Kali Yuga 4891–4892 Holocene calendar 11791 Igbo calendar 791–792 Iranian calendar 1169–1170 Islamic calendar 1205–1206 Japanese calendar Kansei 3 (寛政３年) Javanese calendar 1717–1718 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days Korean calendar 4124 Minguo calendar 121 before ROC 民前121年 Nanakshahi calendar 323 Thai solar calendar 2333–2334 Tibetan calendar 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1917 or 1536 or 764     — to — 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1918 or 1537 or 765

1791 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

Events

• January 25 - The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada
• March 3 - The U.S. Congress passes a resolution calling for the establishment of the United States Mint (U.S. Mint not created until next year).
• March 4 - Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
• May 3 - Constitution of third May the first modern codified constitution in Europe, proclaimed by Polish Sejm (Parliament)
• July 14 - The Priestley Riots in Birmingham, England.
• June 20 - French Royal family captured when they try to flee in disguise
• August 26 - John Fitch is granted a patent for the steamboat in the United States.
• December 4 - The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
• December 15 - The United States Bill of Rights is passed, but two of the package of twelve are not approved at that time. More than 200 years later, one of those two became the Twenty-seventh Amendment.

• Slave rebellion in Haiti is crushed
• Brandenburg Gate in Berlin finished

Ongoing events

• French Revolution (1789-1799)

Births

• January 15 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian lyricist (d. 1872)
• January 28 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (d. 1833)
• February 21 - John Mercer, chemist and industrialist (d. 1866)
• April 23 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States
• April 27 - Samuel Morse, U.S. inventor
• July 26 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer
• September 22 - Michael Faraday - British scientist
• November 11 - Josef Munzinger, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1855)
• December 26 - Charles Babbage, British mathematician and inventor of computing machines
• Anne Lister - lesbian

Deaths

• March 2 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)
• April 19 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher
• May 9 - Francis Hopkinson, American author and signer of the Declaration of Independence
• July 25 - Isaac Low, New York delegate to the Continental Congress
• December 5 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)