Explore 131 historical events from 1780–1789.
Charles John Stanley was an English composer and organist.
John Stanley, English organist and composer (born 1712)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, German-Swedish chemist and pharmacist (born 1742)
Dom Peter III, nicknamed the Builder, was King of Portugal from 24 February 1777 to his death in 1786, by marriage to his niece Queen Dona Maria I.
Peter III of Portugal (born 1717)
Major General Nathanael Greene was an American military officer and planter who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He emerged from the war with a reputati…
Nathanael Greene, American general (born 1742)
The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, is a commedia per musica in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiere…
The Marriage of Figaro (audio featured), an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vien
An earthquake occurred on 1 June 1786 in and around Kangding, in what is now China's Sichuan province. It had an estimated magnitude of about 7.75 and a maximum perceived intensity…
Ten days after being formed by an earthquake, a landslide dam on the Dadu River in China was destroyed by an aftershock,
Alexandre Pierre-François Boëly was a French composer, organist, pianist, and violist.
Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (died 1858)
John Wilson FRSE was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
John Wilson, Scottish author and critic (died 1854)
Lieutenant-General Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul, KOHS, OGF was a French Royal Army officer, diplomat and statesman. From 1758 to 1761 and again from 1766 to 1770,…
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1719)
Pietro Longhi was a Venetian painter of contemporary genre scenes of life.
Pietro Longhi, Italian painter (born 1701)
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves was a French mathematician who published in 1740 a work on analytical geometry in which he applied it, without the aid of differential calculus, to find …
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician and academic (born 1713)
King's Chapel is an independent Unitarian congregation in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association and describes itself as…
The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, without the Nicene Creed, establishing it as the fi
John James Audubon was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist. His combined interests in painting and ornithology turned into a plan to mak…
John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (died 1851)
King's Chapel is an independent Unitarian congregation in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association and describes itself as…
The proprietors of King's Chapel, Boston, voted to adopt James Freeman's Book of Common Prayer, thus establishing the fi
Élisabeth Thible, or Elizabeth Tible, was the first woman to make a flight in an untethered hot air balloon. She was born in Lyon, France, on 8 March 1757. On 4 June 1784, eight mo…
Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon
Peter Vivian Daniel was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Peter Vivian Daniel, American lawyer and jurist (died 1860)
Samuel Turell Armstrong was an American politician. Born in 1784 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, he was a printer and bookseller in Boston, specializing in religious materials. Among…
Samuel Turell Armstrong, American publisher and politician, 14th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (died 1850)
Solomon I the Great was a Georgian monarch who reigned as king (mepe) of Imereti in western Georgia from 1752 to 1765 and again from 1767 until his death in 1784.
Solomon I of Imereti (born 1735)
Honora "Nano" Nagle was an Irish Catholic religious sister who served as a pioneer of Catholic education in Ireland despite legal prohibitions. She founded the Sisters of the Prese…
Nano Nagle, Irish nun and educator, founded the Presentation Sisters (born 1718)
Abraham Trembley was a Genevan naturalist. He is best known for being the first to study freshwater polyps or hydra and for being among the first to develop experimental zoology. H…
Abraham Trembley, Swiss zoologist and academic (born 1710)
Henry Middleton was an American politician and planter from South Carolina. A member of the colonial legislature, during the American Revolution he attended the First Continental C…
Henry Middleton, American farmer and politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (born 1717)
Élisabeth Thible, or Elizabeth Tible, was the first woman to make a flight in an untethered hot air balloon. She was born in Lyon, France, on 8 March 1757. On 4 June 1784, eight mo…
Élisabeth Thible became the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon, covering a distance of 4 km (2
Reginald Heber was an English Anglican bishop, a man of letters, and hymn-writer. After 16 years as a country parson, he served as Bishop of Calcutta until his death at the age of …
Reginald Heber, English priest (died 1821)
David Cox was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism.
David Cox, English landscape painter (died 1859)