Timeline March 1791

Events in March 1791 4

• 1703 – 1791 John Wesley (1703-1791) Died 2 March 1791, aged 87 English cleric and theologian who, with his brother Charles, founded the Methodist movement within the Church of England. His itinerant preaching across Britain and open-air sermons shaped evangelical Protestantism worldwide. He died in London after decades of ministry and prolific writing.
• 1791 Vermont admitted as 14th U.S. state First state added to the Union after the original thirteen On 4 March 1791 Vermont became the fourteenth state of the United States, the first to join after the original thirteen colonies. It had functioned as an unrecognized independent republic since 1777. Its admission set the precedent for incorporating new states into the Union.
• 1791 Rights of Man, Part One, published Thomas Paine defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke Thomas Paine published the first part of "Rights of Man" on 13 March 1791, rebutting Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution. The pamphlet argued for popular sovereignty and natural rights and sold widely in Britain, Ireland, and America. It later led to Paine being tried in absentia for seditious libel.
• 1791 Boundaries of the U.S. federal capital proclaimed Presidential proclamation sets the limits of the future Washington, D.C. On 30 March 1791 President George Washington issued a proclamation fixing the boundaries of the new federal district on the Potomac River. Pierre Charles L'Enfant was engaged to design the capital city within it. The district combined land ceded by Maryland and Virginia.