1791
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1791 was a simple year.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
June 14 — Le Chapelle's law passed in France
June 23 — French King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette are discovered attempting to escape and arrested at Varennes.
July
August
August 4 — The Peace of Svisht was signed, which determined the border between Austria and the Ottoman Empire and ended the Austro-Turkish War.
August 22 — A slave revolt breaks out in the French colony of San Domingo, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
September
On September 30, Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiered in Vienna.
December
December 15 — The first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, are ratified.
Births
April
April 23 — James Buchanan, 15th President of the USA
September
September 13 — Avram Petronijević, Serbian politician. (†1852)
September 21 — Istvan Sechenyi, Hungarian politician
Death
February
December 5 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (*1756)
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