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1791
 
     
Mozart's opera The Magic Flute has its premiere in Vienna in a popular theatre run by the librettist, Emanuel Shikaneder        
1791
 
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Wolfe Tone is one of the founders in Belfast of the Society of United Irishmen       
1791
 
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After centuries as a chapel of Kingston, and 22 years in which it shared a parish with Kew, St Peter’s is established as a parish in its own right. See in Google maps   
1791
 
    
Mozart dies, at the age of just 35, leaving his Requiem unfinished       
1791
 
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The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, are ratified by the states      
1791
 
   
London's Albion Mills burn      
Albion Mills near Blackfriars Bridge, by Edy, 1791
Guildhall Library
1791
 
    
Thomas Paine publishes the first part of The Rights of Man, his reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France       
Thomas Paine, after Romney, 1792
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1792
 
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The Swedish king Gustavus III is assassinated at a midnight masquerade in Stockholm – an event later dramatized by Verdi        
1792
 
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France declares war on the Austrian emperor, an event that plunges Europe into more than 20 years of conflict      
1792
 
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In a first demonstration of the gullotine, a highwayman is beheaded in a Paris square