- 1791 in Great Britain
Events from the year
1791 in theKingdom of Great Britain .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -William Pitt the Younger ,Tory Events
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1 January -Austria n composerJoseph Haydn arrives inEngland where his concerts are huge successes.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=342–343]
* April -William Wilberforce introduces a bill to Parliament to abolish theslave trade but it is defeated.
*10 June - Parliament passes theConstitutional Act of 1791 , splitting the old province ofQuebec into Upper andLower Canada .
*14 June to17 June - ThePriestley Riots inBirmingham , against dissenters.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 232-233|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*4 December - The first issue of "The Observer ", the world's first Sundaynewspaper , is published.Undated
* Amateur geologist
William Gregor discovers an unknown metal inCornwall later identified to beTitanium .Publications
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James Boswell 's landmark biography "Life of Johnson ".
*13 March -Thomas Paine 's chief work "Rights of Man ". [cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 ]Births
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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)Deaths
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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)References
ee also
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