1791

Year 1791 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 11-day slower ).

January - June

 * - The passes the, splitting the old  into  and.
 * - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a  machine in.
 * - is admitted as the 14th.
 * -   proclaims the, the first modern codified  in.

July - December

 * - The in,.
 * - The is captured when they try to flee in disguise.
 * - in  finished.
 * - is granted a patent for the  in the.
 * - The, is founded by , becoming the twelfth mission in the chain.
 * - Première of 's  (Magic Flute) in the  in.
 * - The, was founded by , becoming the thirteenth mission in the chain.
 * - The first issue of , the world's first Sunday, is published.
 * - Austrian composer, dies.
 * - Ratification by the states of the first ten amendments to the is completed, creating the . Two additional amendments remain pending, and one of these is finally ratified in, becoming the.


 * “1791” Pittsfield, MA 01201 - the year in which an ordinance was written barring the game of baseball within 80 yards of the Meeting House, the first known reference to the game of baseball in North America.

Undated

 * The first ship reaches.
 * Slave rebellion in has begun.

Births

 * -, Austrian writer (d. )
 * -, French composer (d. )
 * -, American Industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (d. )
 * , Austrian composer (d. )
 * , chemist and industrialist (d. )
 * -, 15th (d. )
 * -, American inventor (d. )
 * -, Austrian composer and pianist (d. )
 * -, German composer (d. )
 * -, Hungarian politician and writer (d. )
 * -, British scientist (d. )
 * -, French painter (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, British mathematician and inventor (d. )
 * -, British mathematician and inventor (d. )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, Welsh hymnist (b. )
 * -, English founder of Methodism (b. )
 * -, German historian and Bible commentator (b. )
 * -, Welsh philosopher (b. )
 * -, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. )
 * -, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. )
 * -, French admiral (b. )
 * -, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. )
 * -, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. )
 * -, French soldier and diplomat (b. )
 * -, American soldier (b. )
 * -, American printer (b. )
 * -, Austrian composer (b. )


 * See also .