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1791 in Great Britain
Summary
Events from the year
1791
in
Great Britain
.
1791 in Great Britain:
Other years
1789
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1790
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1791
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1792
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1793
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1791 English cricket season
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
George III
Prime Minister
–
William Pitt the Younger
(
Tory
)
[1]
Foreign Secretary
–
Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds
(until May)
Lord Grenville
(starting 8 June)
Events
edit
1 January –
Austrian
composer
Joseph Haydn
arrives in
England
where his concerts are huge successes.
[2]
On 8 July he is awarded an honorary doctorate of music at the
University of Oxford
.
April –
William Wilberforce
introduces a
bill
to
Parliament
to abolish the
slave trade
but it is defeated.
[2]
10 June – Parliament passes the
Constitutional Act
, splitting the old province of
Quebec
into
Upper
and
Lower Canada
.
[2]
14–17 July – the
Priestley Riots
in
Birmingham
, against
Dissenters
.
[3]
21 June – foundation of the
Ordnance Survey
to undertake official mapping.
[4]
27 August –
Battle of Tellicherry
(
Third Anglo-Mysore War
) off the south-west coast of India: a
Royal Navy
patrol forces a French convoy bound for
Mysore
to surrender.
29 September – the King's son
Prince Frederick, Duke of York
, marries
Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia
at
Charlottenburg
.
4 December – the first issue of
The Observer
, the world's first Sunday
newspaper
, is published.
[2]
Undated
edit
Roman Catholic Relief Act
relieves
Catholics
of certain political, educational and economic disabilities.
Architect
John Soane
begins reconstruction of the
Bank of England
in London.
Theophilus Lindsey
and
John Disney
set up the "first organized denominational
Unitarian
society", The Unitarian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Practice of Virtue by the Distribution of Books ('Unitarian Book Society').
[5]
The
School for the Indigent Blind
, the oldest specialist school of its kind in Britain, is founded in
Liverpool
by blind ex-merchant seaman, writer and
abolitionist
Edward Rushton
.
[6]
Amateur geologist
William Gregor
discovers an unknown metal in
Cornwall
later identified to be
Titanium
.
[2]
Publications
edit
13 March –
Thomas Paine
's chief work
Rights of Man
(first part).
[7]
16 May –
James Boswell
's landmark biography
Life of Samuel Johnson
.
[3]
Thomas Sheraton
's
The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book
begins publication.
Sir John Sinclair
's
Statistical Account of Scotland
begins publication, introducing the term
Statistics
into
English
.
[8]
Births
edit
2 February –
William Elford Leach
, zoologist and marine biologist (d.
1836
)
10 February –
Henry Hart Milman
, historian and ecclesiastic (died
1868
)
21 February –
John Mercer
, English chemist and industrialist (died
1866
)
15 March –
Lewis Vulliamy
, architect (died
1871
)
18 March –
John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury
, peer and lay Roman Catholic leader (died
1852
)
3 April –
Anne Lister
, landowner, diarist, mountaineer and traveller, "the first modern lesbian" (died
1840
)
12 April –
Provo Wallis
, Admiral of the Fleet (died
1892
)
17 April
(bapt.)
–
William Cubitt
, building and civil engineering contractor and politician (died
1863
)
5 July –
Samuel Bailey
, philosopher and author (died
1870
)
4 September –
Robert Knox
, Scottish-born surgeon, anatomist and zoologist (died
1862
)
13 September –
William Betty
, child actor (died
1874
)
22 September –
Michael Faraday
, scientist (died
1867
)
29 October –
John Elliotson
, physician (died
1868
)
26 December –
Charles Babbage
, mathematician and inventor (died
1871
)
Deaths
edit
11 January –
William Williams Pantycelyn
, Welsh hymnist (born
1717
)
25 January –
George Augustus Selwyn
, Member of Parliament (born
1719
)
5 February –
John Beard
, operatic tenor and actor-manager (born c. 1716/17)
2 March –
John Wesley
, founder of Methodism (born
1703
)
29 March –
Elspeth Buchan
, Scottish millenarian prophet (born c. 1738)
19 April –
Richard Price
, Welsh-born philosopher (born
1723
)
5 June –
Frederick Haldimand
, colonial governor (born 1718 in Switzerland)
12 June –
Francis Grose
, antiquary and lexicographer (born c. 1730)
17 June –
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
, Methodist leader (born
1707
)
12 August –
Isabella Young
, operatic mezzo-soprano and organist
16 November –
Edward Penny
, portrait and historical painter (born
1714
)
27 December –
John Monro
, physician of Bethlem Hospital (born
1716
)
See also
edit
1791 in Wales
References
edit
^
"History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK".
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
1 July
2023
.
^
a
b
c
d
e
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 342–343.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
a
b
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 232–233.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.
^
"A short history of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain"
(PDF)
. Charles Close Society
. Retrieved
2015-11-13
.
^
Rowe, Mortimer (1959). "Chapter 3".
The History of Essex Hall
. London: Lindsey Press. Archived from the original on 2012-01-16.
^
"Special Schools – Part 1 – Royal School for the Blind in Liverpool".
You and Yours
.
BBC Radio 4
. 2012-04-04
. Retrieved
2013-07-05
.
^
The Hutchinson Factfinder
. Helicon. 1999.
ISBN
1-85986-000-1
.
^
Ball, Philip (2004).
Critical Mass
. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. p. 53.
ISBN
0-374-53041-6
.