1791 in Great Britain

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1791 English cricket season

Events from the year 1791 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

[edit] Events

• 1 January - Austrian composer Joseph Haydn arrives in England where his concerts are huge successes.^[1]
• April - William Wilberforce introduces a bill to Parliament to abolish the slave trade but it is defeated.^[1]
• 10 June - Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.^[1]
• 14 June to 17 June - The Priestley Riots in Birmingham, against dissenters.^[2]
• 4 December - The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.^[1]

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• Amateur geologist William Gregor discovers an unknown metal in Cornwall later identified to be Titanium.^[1]

[edit] Publications

• James Boswell's landmark biography Life of Johnson.^[2]
• 13 March - Thomas Paine's chief work Rights of Man.^[3]

[edit] Births

• 10 February - Henry Hart Milman, historian and ecclesiastic (died 1868)
• 22 September - Michael Faraday, scientist (died 1867)
• 26 December - Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor (died 1871)

[edit] Deaths

• 11 January - William Williams Pantycelyn, hymnist (born 1717)
• 25 January - George Augustus Selwyn, Member of Parliament (born 1719)
• 2 March - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (born 1703)
• 19 April - Richard Price, philosopher (born 1723)
• 5 June - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (born 1718, Switzerland)
• 17 June - Selina Hastings, Methodist leader (born 1707)

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