1791

This page lists news articles and events for the year 1791.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Undated

• Event: James Boswell's influential biography The Life of Samuel Johnson published
• Event: The independent nation of Vermont elects to become the 14th State of the United States of America.
• Roughly May into Autumn: Event: Northwest Indian War: James Wilkinson leads a group of Kentucky volunteers against the Northwestern Confederacy of Native American tribes.

January

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August

September

October

• Sometime in October:
  • Event: James Wilkinson is reinstated yet again to the army of the United States, after having twice been forced to resign from the revolutionary-era Continental Army. While in this new leadership post, he continues to conduct espionage on behalf of Spain.

November

December