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Others came from the French colony of Saint-Domingue where slave uprisings had broken out in 1791, inspired by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) of the French Assembly. According to legend, Marie Antoinette (continued as titular Queen of France until guillotined in October 1793) and her two surviving children were ...
August – France decrees all the slaves on Saint-Domingue to be free. August 1–November 9 – The yellow fever epidemic of 1793 hits Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 5,000 die. August 10 – French Revolution – Feast of Unity Crowds in Paris burn monarchist emblems. The Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum.
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Pennsylvania's history of human habitation extends to thousands of years before the foundation of the Province of Pennsylvania. Archaeologists generally believe that the first settlement of the Americas occurred at least 15,000 years ago during the last glacial period , though it is unclear when humans first entered present-day Pennsylvania.
1791 – The Bill of Rights, comprising the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is adopted. [1] 1791 – First Bank of the United States chartered; 1791 – Vermont becomes the 14th state [2] (formerly the independent Vermont Republic) 1792 – Kentucky becomes the 15th state [3] (formerly Kentucky County, Virginia)
Between 1681 and 1791 the labor for these plantations was provided by an estimated 790,000 or 860,000 slaves, [14] accounting in 1783–1791 for a third of the entire Atlantic slave trade. [15] In addition, some Native Americans were enslaved in Louisiana and sent to Saint-Domingue, particularly in the wake of the Natchez revolt . [ 16 ]
Vincent Ogé (c. 1757 – 6 February 1791) was a Creole [1] revolutionary, merchant, military officer and goldsmith who had a leading role in a failed uprising against French colonial rule in the colony of Saint-Domingue in 1790.