1791 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1791 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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[edit] Events
- 25 January - Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
- 13 March - Thomas Paine's chief work Rights of Man published.[1]
- 14 July - The Priestley Riots in Birmingham.
- 4 December - The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
[edit] Unknown dates
- Amateur geologist William Gregor discovers an unknown metal in Cornwall later identified to be Titanium.
[edit] Births
- 22 September - Michael Faraday, scientist (d. 1867)
- 26 December - Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor (d. 1871)
[edit] Deaths
- 11 January - William Williams Pantycelyn, hymnist (b. 1717)
- 2 March - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)
- 19 April - Richard Price, philosopher (b. 1723)
- 5 June - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718, Switzerland)
- 17 June - Selina Hastings, Methodist leader (b. 1707)
[edit] References
- ^ (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
