Explore 263 historical events from 1780–1789.
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)
William Jackson Hooker was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as…
William Hooker, English botanist and academic (died 1865)
Thomas Penson De Quincey was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publis…
Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (died 1859)
Oliver Hazard Perry was a United States Navy officer from South Kingstown, Rhode Island. A prominent member of the Perry family naval dynasty, he was the son of Sarah Wallace Alexa…
Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (died 1819)
Agustín Gamarra Messia was a Peruvian soldier and politician, who served twice as President of Peru, first from 1829-1833, and then again from 1838 until his death in 1841.
Agustín Gamarra, Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru (died 1841)
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)
Mordecai Manuel Noah was an American sheriff, playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. He was born in a family of mixed Ashkenazi and Portuguese Sephardic ancestry and was th…
Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist, playwright, and diplomat (died 1851)
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)
Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe was a British army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North A…
James Oglethorpe, English general and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Georgia (born 1696)
Jonathan Trumbull Sr. was an American politician who served as the governor of Connecticut during the American Revolution. Trumbull and Nicholas Cooke of Rhode Island were the only…
Jonathan Trumbull, English-American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (born 1710)
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was a French sculptor whose work was influenced by both baroque and neo-classical trends.
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (born 1714)
Major-General George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, PC was a British Army officer and politician who served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1775 to 1782. Serving in t…
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, English soldier and politician, 3rd Secretary of State for the Colonies (born…
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)
A mail coach is a public coach contracted to carry the mail. In Great Britain, Ireland, and Australia, they were built to a General Post Office-approved design operated by an indep…
The first British mail coach service runs from Bristol to London.
Juan Antonio Lavalleja y de la Torre was an Uruguayan libertador, revolutionary, military general, and political figure. He was born in Minas, in a region now named after him as th…
Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan general and politician, President of Uruguay (died 1853)
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the Sun …
Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1846)
Denis Vasilyevich Davydov was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented the genre of hussar poetry, characterised by hedonism and bravado. He used events from his …
Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (died 1839)
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)
Russian Colonization of North America describes colonies and territories claimed by the Russian Empire in the Pacific Coast region of North America from 1732 to 1867. Russian colon…
Russian colonization of North America: Awa'uq Massacre: The Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov storms a Kodiak…