WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1791
Find out what all happened January to December 1791

Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris. (2. March 1791)

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington. (9. September 1791)

The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. (25. January 1791)

The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War. (10. January 1791)

Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue. (22. August 1791)

Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War. (2. January 1791)

The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash. (4. November 1791)

Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen. (9. November 1791)

Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state. (4. March 1791)

American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War. (7. August 1791)

The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published. (4. December 1791)

France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population. (28. September 1791)

King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution. (13. September 1791)

HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day. (30. August 1791)

John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat. (26. August 1791)

First session of the French Legislative Assembly. (1. October 1791)

The Papal States lose Avignon to the French Empire. (14. September 1791)

The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors. (15. November 1791)

The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England. (14. July 1791)

Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying ordinance. (15. May 1791)