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1791 |
Charlotte Smith, Celestina. |
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1791 |
Anna Letitia Barbauld, "Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade." |
*Abolition |
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1791 |
Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (Vienna), Requiem composed. |
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1791 |
Luigi Cherubini, Lodoïska. |
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1791 |
John Bell, printer, abandons the "long s" (the "s" that looks like an "f"). |
*Printing |
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1791 |
Thomas Paine, Rights Of Man (Part I). |
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1791 |
Marriage of Matthew Baillie (brother of Joanna Baillie) and Sophia Denham. |
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Jan 1791 |
William Wordsworth leaves Cambridge, to London. |
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Apr 1791 |
William Wilberforce's bill for Abolition is defeated 163 to 88. |
*Abolition |
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May 7, 1791 |
James Mackintosh, Vindicae Gallicae. |
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May 19, 1791 |
Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly." (Dated January 1791.) |
*French Revolution |
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June 1791 |
French Revolution: Louis XVI tries to flee France, but is arrested, returned to Paris, and forced to accept the new constitution. |
*French Revolution |
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July 14, 1791 |
The "Church and King Terror" or Birmingham riots:
protesting Bastille Day, an anti-Dissenter, anti-"jacobin" (that is, anti-radical reform) mob burns Joseph Priestley's house and laboratory. |
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July 17, 1791 |
French Revolution: Troops led by Lafayette (now in the moderate Girondin faction) open fire on a Republican demonstration in the Champ de Mars (site of the Fête of Federation in Paris a year earlier). |
*French Revolution |
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Aug 1791 |
100,000 slaves and ex-slaves revolt against planters and the local government in French-controlled San Domingo, the wealthiest colony of the West Indies and main source of sugar and coffee in Europe. |
*Abolition |
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Aug 2, 1791 |
Edmund Burke, An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs and a split within the Whig party on the question of reform. |
*Whig Party |
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Aug 20, 1791 |
Paine's answer to Burke's Appeal, "Address and
Declaration of the Friends of Universal Peace and Liberty"; contains some seminal ideas which made
Rights of Man such a landmark in political theory. |
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Sept 1, 1791 |
An edition of Wollstonecraft's Original Stories illustrated by William Blake. |
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Oct 1, 1791 |
French Revolution: Newly elected Legislative Assembly opens. |
*French Revolution |
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Oct 14, 1791 |
Ireland: Foundation of United Irishmen in Belfast. |
*Ireland |
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Nov 9, 1791 |
Ireland: First meeting of Dublin United Irishmen. |
*Ireland |
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Dec 1791 |
French Revolution: Legislative Assembly deprives émigrés of their property.
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*French Revolution |
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Dec 1791 - Dec 1792 |
William Wordsworth's second visit to France (he stays until Dec. 1792). |
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Dec 5, 1791 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies, Vienna. |
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