Explore 404 historical events from 1780–1789.
José Mariano de la Cruz de la Riva Agüero y Sánchez Boquete was a Peruvian soldier and politician who was the first president of Peru and the second president of North Peru, a cons…
José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (died 185
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Col…
Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan commander and politician, second President of Venezuela, and liberation leader for much of…
Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu, commonly known as Agustín de Iturbide and later by his regnal name Agustín I, was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as t…
Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican royalist turned insurgent; first emperor of Mexico (died 1824)
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz was a French polymath of the early 19th century. Born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, he was self-educated in France.
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Ottoman-French polymath and naturalist (died 1840)
Christian Mayer was a Moravian-German Catholic priest, astronomer and teacher.
Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer and educator (born 1719)
James Otis Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and activist who was an early supporter of patriotic causes in the Province of Massachusetts Bay at the beginning of the American…
James Otis Jr
Carlo Antonio Bertinazzi, known as Carlin, was an Italian actor and author. He is known to have traveled with Giacomo Casanova's mother, Zanetta Farussi, to St Petersburg to perfor…
Carlo Bertinazzi, Italian actor and author (born 1710)
Benjamin Kennicott was an English churchman and Hebrew scholar.
Benjamin Kennicott, English theologian and scholar (born 1718)
Leonhard Euler was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer. He founded the studies of graph the…
Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (born 1707)
Étienne Bézout was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Avon, France.
Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and theorist (born 1730)
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie.
Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1717)
The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player or simply the Turk, was a chess-playing machine first displayed in 1770, which appeared to be able to play a strong ga…
The Mechanical Turk (pictured), a fraudulent chess-playing "machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen that was secretly controll
The Second Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company from 1780 to 1784. At the time, Mysore was a key French ally in India, a…
Second Anglo-Mysore War: British troops surrendered the fortress of Bednore in southwestern India to French and Mysorean
Laki or Lakagígar is a volcanic fissure in the western part of Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland, not far from the volcanic fissure of Eldgjá and the small village of Kirkjubæjark…
Laki, a volcanic fissure in Iceland (pictured), began an eight-month eruption, triggering a major famine and causing wid
Mount Asama is an active stratovolcano in central Honshū, the main island of Japan. The volcano is the most active on Honshū. The Japan Meteorological Agency classifies Mount Asam…
Mount Asama (pictured) in Japan began a climactic eruption, which exacerbated the Great Tenmei famine and led to…
A meteor procession occurs when an Earth-grazing meteor breaks apart, and the fragments travel across the sky in the same path. According to physicist Donald Olson, only four occur…
A meteor procession blazed across the night sky over Great Britain.
The Raid on Lunenburg occurred during the American Revolution when the US privateer, Captain Noah Stoddard of Fairhaven, Massachusetts on the 'Scammell' with four other privateer v…
Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily was Queen of the French by marriage to Louis Philippe I, King of the French. She was the last Queen of the French.
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (died 1866)
Hirose Tanso was a neo-Confucian scholar, teacher and writer in late Edo Period Japan.
Hirose Tansō, Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, teacher, writer (died 1856)
Juan Larrea was a Spanish businessman and politician in Buenos Aires during the early nineteenth century. He headed a military unit during the second British invasion of the River …
Juan Larrea, Argentinian captain and politician (died 1847)
John Adams was a Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved in…
John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government
Maria Luisa of Spain was a Spanish infanta, daughter of King Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma. In 1795, she married her first cousin Louis of Bourbon-Parma, heir apparent to the…
Maria Luisa of Spain (died 1824)
John Field was an Irish pianist, composer and teacher widely credited as the inventor of the nocturne. While many of his contemporaries wrote in a similar style, Field was the firs…
John Field, Irish pianist and composer (died 1837)
Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña was a Mexican military officer from 1810 to 1821 and a statesman who became the nation's second president in 1829. He was one of the leading generals…
Vicente Guerrero, Mexican insurgent leader and President of Mexico (died 1831)