History
1791
General
Population: 980 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include MJ de Chenier (plays), Boswell Life of Johnson, Thomas Paine Rights of Man in response to French revolution,
Philippe Pinel (philosophy), William Bartram (travels), John Sinclair (Scotland statistics)
Art includes George Morland "The Stable", Augustin Pajoy "Psyche Abandoned"
Music includes Cherubini, Haydn "Surprise" symphony, Mozart's "Magic Flute"
Waltz becomes fashionable
- Technology: Claude and Ignace Chappe invent semaphore
Spinning mill invented by Samuel Slater
- Deaths: Methodist founder John Wesley, Sculptor Etienne Maurice Falconet, Writer Hester Chapone, French revolutionist Comte de Mirabeau,
Mozart (age 35), Poet Christian Schubart, Prince Potemkin of the Empire,
Africa
Americas
- Canada: Constitutions Act divides Canada into upper and lower and English and French regions, establish representative governments
- Santo Domingo: Haitian revolutionary Toussaint-L'Ouverture (Pierre Dominique Toussaint-Bieda) leads successful slave revolt
Asia
- India: Drought, famine and cannibalism "Skull Famine" after black ants destroy all vegetation in Kach India
Europe
- France: Royal family captured
Mirabeau elected president of Franch Assembly and dies
Massacre of the Champ de Mars in Paris
French National Assembly creates constitution, dissolves
Thomas Paine must flee after "Rights of Man" considered threat
- German States: Goethe is named director of Weimar Court Theater
Karl Langhans creates Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
First general strike in Hamburg
- Great Britain: Riots over French revolution
"The Observer" founded in London
London School of Vetrinary Surgery founded
Wilberforce's motion for abolition of slave trade carries through Parliament
"English Stud Book" published for first time
- Holy Roman Empire: Death of Prince Potemkin the favorite of Empress Catherine II
Treaty of Sistova between Austria and Turkey
- Italian States: French annex papal states
- Russia: Russia wins control of northern Black Sea coast from Ottoman empire,
Odessa founded
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Treaty of Sistova between Austria and Turkey
Pacific
President:
Pres: George Washington
General
- Finance: Bank of North America founded
Whiskey rebellion begins until 1794
- Natives: Treaty with Cherokee tribe
- Politics: Bill of Rights written and ratified
Alexander Hamilton begins affair with Mrs. Reynolds, nearly leading to his political demise
East
- Vermont: Statehood as #14
- Washington DC: Andrew Elliott and Benjamin Banneker survey DC