Explore 387 historical events from 1790–1799.
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre f…
Maximilien Robespierre, French politician, (born 1758)
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror, was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Conven…
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French soldier and politician (born 1767)
Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, known as The Lord Apsley from 1771 to 1775, was a British lawyer and politician. He was Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1771 to 1778.
Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1714)
Florimond Claude, comte de Mercy-Argenteau was an Austrian diplomat and statesman of French noble ancestry in the service of the Holy Roman Empire.
Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian diplomat (born 1727)
The War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic. It pitted …
War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it lost to Spain the previous year with its victory in the Seco
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.…
French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the Fre
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great B…
French Revolutionary Wars: A British fleet captured six French ships of the line in a naval battle off Ushant that came
The Battle of Trippstadt was a relatively minor French military action in 1794 during the War of the First Coalition. The clash between the French Republican forces and the armies …
The Battle of Trippstadt between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria began.
Jean-Paul Marat was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes…
French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Pa
The Battle of Famars was fought on 23 May 1793 during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. An Allied Austrian, Hanoverian, and British army under Prince Josias …
Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition
The Act Against Slavery was an anti-slavery law passed on July 9, 1793, in the second legislative session of Upper Canada, the colonial division of British North America that would…
The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery…
The Kingdom of Prussia was a German state that existed from 1701 to 1918. It played a significant role in the unification of Germany in 1871 and was a major constituent of the Germ…
Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
Rhône is a French department located in the east-central administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Rhône, its prefecture is Lyon. Its sole subprefecture …
The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.…
French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul
The Jardin des Plantes, also known as the Jardin des Plantes de Paris when distinguished from other jardins des plantes in other cities, is the main botanical garden in France. Jar…
The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.…
French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safet
The Haitian Revolution, also known as the Haitian War of Independence, was a successful insurrection by enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the so…
Haitian Revolution: The Battle of Cap-Français ends with French Republican troops and black slave insurgents capturing t
The Constitution of 1793, also known as the Constitution of the Year I or the Montagnard Constitution, was the second constitution ratified for use during the French Revolution und…
The first Republican constitution in France is adopted
Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America north of Mexico by a European in 1793. The Mackenzie Rive…
Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental…
Ferdinand I was Emperor of Austria from March 1835 until his abdication in December 1848. He was also King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia, King of Lombardy–Venetia and holder of …
Ferdinand I of Austria (died 1875)
Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor was an American statesman, jurist, ordained Baptist minister, war veteran, slave owner, and a co-founder and the namesake of Baylor University. Accordi…
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Joseph Earl Sheffield was an American railroad magnate and philanthropist.
Joseph Earl Sheffield, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1882)
Josef Ludwig Franz Ressel was an Austrian forester and inventor who designed one of the first working ship's propellers.
Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (died 1857)
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.…
French Revolution: A levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.