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1791
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by
Gorgonzola
Thu Nov 16 2000 at 3:31:46
Born in 1791:
English physicist
Michael Faraday
.
English mathematician and inventor
Charles Babbage
.
Italian composer
Giacomo Meyerbeer
.
Irish
poet
and
clergyman
Charles Wolfe
.
English mathematician
George Peacock
.
French architect
Louis Visconti
.
Russian guitarist and composer
Mikhail Vyssotski
.
Italian painter
Francesco Hayez
.
Died in 1791:
Austrian composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
.
Methodist founder
John Wesley
.
English writer and historian
Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay
.
Events of 1791:
The
Constitutional Act
amends the
Quebec Act
to divide that territory into
Upper Canada
and
Lower Canada
.
Having started exporting English
convicts
to
Australia
in
1787
, Great Britain begins exporting
Irish
convicts
there.
The infant
United States
toddles along.
Vermont
is the first state outside the original thirteen to be admitted to the
United States
after New York finally gives up its claim to the area.
United States
President
George Washington
learns from his minister to France,
Thomas Jefferson
, that
France is unhappy
with
1789
and
1790
acts levying duties levied on foreign ships, because these acts to not exempt France. So "
most favoured nation
" doesn't mean being favored above all other nations. Surprise, surprise.
Benjamin Banneker
writes a letter to
Thomas Jefferson
chiding him for still owning slaves. Jefferson returns a polite if somewhat defensive reply.
A
financial
panic
also sees the first Federal monetary intervention.
George Washington announces the location of the new Federal capital, a ten-mile-square area straddling the
Potomac River
.
Andrew Ellicott
and Benjamin Banneker survey the area and lay out its boundaries.
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
draws up a plan for the new city,
Washington, DC
.
Major General
Arthur St. Clair
is sent with a force of 3,000 men to establish forts in the
Ohio
country. The ventual goal is a strategic point on the
Maumee River
, the present day site of
Fort Wayne
, Indiana].. The money to supply the troops is embezzled by
William Duer
. The
Miami
and
Shawnee
Indians, led by
Little Turtle
, surprise St Clair and his army (now reduced to 1400) at
Fort Recovery
. 700 Americans are killed to 65 Indians. British governor
Henry "Hair Buyer" Hamilton
, still at
Fort Detroit
despite the
1783 Treatry of Paris
,
Thomas Paine
publishes
The Rights of Man
, a response to
Edmund Burke
's denuncuiation of the
French Revolution
of the previous year.
The
Polish
Sejm
, after four years of work, agrees on a
Constitution
to strengthen the Polish government and keep Poland from being
partitioned
.
France
's period of relative calm following the 1789 revolution begins to break down.
Olympe de Gouge
writes her
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen
which points out the inequity in the
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
passed by the
National Assembly
in 1789, and offers a remedy to it. She tries to push this declaration in the National Assembly but gets nowhere, and she will pay for it during
the Terror
.
A
slave uprising
in the colony of
Saint-Domingue
cannot be put down.
(June 28)
Louis XVI
attempts to escape
to
Austria
, but is spotted by a peasant at
Varennes
who recognizes his face from a coin. Louis and Marie Antoinette are captured and returned to Paris. Many now consider them traitors.
(July 4) The
National Assembly
codifies the
equality of freed blacks
in Saint-Domingue.
(July 17) (
Massacre of the Champ de Mars
)
National Guard
troops fire on stone-throwers at a political rally.
(July 18)
Jacobin
s opposed to the removal of Louis, mostly
bougeiosie
, leave the club to form the
Feuillant
s.
Maxamillien Robespierre
is not one of them.
(September 1) France annexes the Papal enclave of
Avignon
.
(September 14) King
Louis XVI
accepts the
constitution
drawn up by the National Assembly.
The ancient
guild system
is abolished.
1790
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1791
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1792
1792
1790
Michael Faraday
French Revolution
Joao Carlos Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, Duke of Saldanha
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Texada Island
On Giants' Shoulders
Bowen Island
Confrontation Clause
Lasqueti Island
George Washington's 1792 State of the Union Address
George Washington's 1791 State of the Union Address
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America
Avignon
Louis XVI
The Terror
UFA
1789
Marquis de Lafayette
Feuillants
Amendment
John Wesley
guild
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