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| 1791 |
| | | Under the guidance of Alexander Hamilton the First Bank of the United States is established in Philadelphia | |
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| 1791 |
| | | The Canadian Constitution Act divides Quebec into Upper Canada (today's Ontario) and Lower Canada (today's Quebec) | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Scottish poet Robert Burns publishes Tam o' Shanter, in which a drunken farmer has an alarming encounter with witches | |
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| 1791 |
| | | French inventor Claude Chappe develops a hilltop signalling system, for which he coins the words telegraph and semaphore | |
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| 1791 |
| | | A stranger arrives in Vienna with a mysterious commission for Mozart to write a requiem mass, just months before the composer's death | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Louis XVI and his family attempt to flee from Paris to the border but are captured at Varennes | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Stationed at Valence, Napoleon becomes president of the local Jacobin club and makes radical speeches against the nobility and clergy | |
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| 1791 |
| | | An Indian raid on an American military camp beside the Maumee river leaves more than 600 US soldiers dead | |
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| 1791 |
| | | The Ordnance Survey is founded in Britain, to make detailed maps of the country for military purposes | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Naval officer George Vancouver sails from Britain on the voyage which will bring him to the northwest coast of America | |
|  | Whalebone club brought back by Vancouver
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
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