1791
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Events
- British Parliament is reconvened after being dissolved since 1789. Trial of Warren Hastings in the House of Lords begins again and doesn't end until 1795.
- Wine-making resumes in Mexico at the Saint Thomas Mission (Mision de Santo Tomas) Baja California Norte.
- First volume of John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland is published.
- Peter Dillon moves from Martinique back to his father's ancestral Eire.
Timeline
- March 4: Vermont joins the United States as the 14th state.
- September 3: French National Assembly issued new constitution that permited Louis XVI to retain his title and direct authority over foreign policy & army while the Assembly retained all lawmaking powers. Franchise extended to bourgeois French males.
- September 27: Emacipation of the Jews of France as equal citizens of the republic. Holland, Germany, Austria, Hungary and England soon follow the example of French liberty.