Explore 567 historical events from 1790–1799.
The Treaty of Greenville, also known to Americans as the Treaty with the Wyandots, etc., but formally titled A treaty of peace between the United States of America, and the tribes …
Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.
The War of the First Coalition was a set of wars between a coalition of several European powers and France fought between 1792 and 1797. The coalition was only loosely allied and f…
War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it…
The invasion of the Cape Colony, also known as the Battle of Muizenberg, was a British military expedition launched in 1795 against the Dutch Cape Colony at the Cape of Good Hope. …
Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic.
The Battle of Sprimont, or Battle of the Ourthe, was a battle during the War of the First Coalition between a corps of the French revolutionary Army of Sambre-and-Meuse under Gener…
More than a year after the Battle of Sprimont, the Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) are officially annexed…
Giorgio Mitrovich was a Maltese patriot and politician known for his role in the struggle for freedom of the press in Malta. He was one of the founders of the Comitato Generale Mal…
Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician (died 1885)
James Gordon Bennett Sr. was a British-born American businessman who was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of American news…
James Gordon Bennett Sr., American publisher, founded the New York Herald (died 1872)
Frances Wright, widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, utopian socialist, abolitionist, social reformer, and Epicurean philosoph…
Frances Wright, Scottish-American author and activist (died 1852)
13 Vendémiaire, Year 4 in the French Republican Calendar, was a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris. This battle was part of …
Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
The Third Partition of Poland (1795) was the last in a series of the Partitions of Poland–Lithuania and the land of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth among Prussia, the Habsburg m…
Poland is completely consumed by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
Sir Charles Barry was an English architect best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for nu…
Charles Barry, English architect, designed the Upper Brook Street Chapel and Halifax Town Hall (died 1860)
John William Polidori was an English writer and medical doctor. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre…
John William Polidori, English physician and author (died 1821)
James Gates Percival was an American poet, surgeon, and geologist.
James Gates Percival, American poet, surgeon and geologist (died 1856)
Alexander Keith was a Canadian businessman, politician, Freemason and founder of Alexander Keith's Brewery.
Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian brewer and politician, 13th Mayor of Halifax (died 1873)
William Buell Sprague was an American Congregational and Presbyterian clergyman and compiler of Annals of the American Pulpit, a comprehensive biographical dictionary of the leadin…
William Buell Sprague, American minister, historian, and author (died 1876)
John Pendleton Kennedy was an American novelist, lawyer and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852, to March 4, 1853, during the admin…
John P. Kennedy, American novelist and Whig politician (died 1870)
Nikolaos Chalikiopoulos Mantzaros was a Greek-Italian composer, born in Corfu. He was a major representative and founder of the so-called Ionian school of music.
Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer and theorist (died 1872)
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy was a French Catholic clergyman, archaeologist, numismatologist and scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. He deciphered the P…
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French archaeologist and author (born 1716)
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Rogers was a British Army officer and frontiersman. Born in Methuen, Province of Massachusetts Bay, he fought in King George's War, the French and Indian …
Robert Rogers, English colonel (born 1731)
Josiah Bartlett was an American Founding Father, physician, statesman, a delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, and a signatory to the Declaration of Independence …
Josiah Bartlett, American physician and politician, 4th Governor of New Hampshire (born 1729)
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, …
James Boswell, Scottish biographer (born 1740)
Ewald Friedrich Graf von Hertzberg was a Prussian statesman.
Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (born 1725)
Pierre-Joseph Desault was a French anatomist and surgeon.
Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (born 1744)
Louis XVII was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette. His older brother, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, died in June 1789, a little over a month …
Louis XVII of France (born 1785)
Johannes Jährig was a German Mongolist and translator of Tibetan and Mongolian texts.
Johannes Jährig, German linguist and translator (born 1747)