1791

Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 Ongoing events

2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Heads of state in 1791

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 United States Mint is created by the United States Congress.
March 4 - Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
May 3 - Constitution of third May (first Polish constitution) proclaimed by Polish Sejm (Parliament)
July 14 - The Priestley Riots in Birmingham, England.
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.

January 15 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian lyricist (&(+ 1872)
February 21 - John Mercer, chemist and industrialist (+ 1866)
April 27 - Samuel Morse, U.S. inventor
December 26 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines
Michael Faraday - English scientist