Explore 387 historical events from 1790–1799.
René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, marquis de Morangles was a French lawyer, politician, and chancellor of France, whose attempts at reform signalled the failure of enlighte…
René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, French lawyer and politician, Chancellor of France (born 1714)
Sir Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. He is credited as the driving force behind the development of the s…
Richard Arkwright, English engineer and businessman (born 1732)
General John Burgoyne was a British Army officer, playwright and politician who was a member of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1761 to 1792. He first saw action during …
John Burgoyne, English general and politician (born 1723)
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782. Aligned with the Whigs from 1754, he had developed strong Tory sympathies by the time …
Frederick North, Lord North, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1732)
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Lisle is known for writing the words and music of the Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin…
French composer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote "La Marseillaise", now the national anthem of France
The Great Sejm, also known as the Four-Year Sejm was a Sejm (parliament) of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that was held in Warsaw between 1788 and 1792. Its principal aim beca…
The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was disbanded following the Russian invasion of Poland
Captain George Vancouver was an English Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for leading the Vancouver Expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pac…
Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy claimed the land around Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britai
The Belfast Harp Festival, called by contemporary writers The Belfast Harpers Assembly, 11–14 July 1792, was a three-day musical and patriotic event organised in Belfast, Ireland,…
The Belfast Harp Festival, an early event in the Gaelic revival, began at the Assembly Rooms.
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: Insurrectionists in Paris stormed the Tuileries Palace (depicted), effectively ending the French…
The Treaty of Sistova ended the last Austro-Turkish war (1787–91). Brokered by Great Britain, Prussia and the Netherlands, it was signed in Sistova in Bulgaria on 4 August 1791. Th…
The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
John Fitch was an American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur, and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States. The first boat, 45 f…
John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
The Constitution of 3 May 1791, titled the Government Act, was a written constitution for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that was adopted by the Great Sejm that met between 178…
The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commo
James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He also served as the 17th United States secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represe…
James Buchanan, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 15th President of the United States (died 1868)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of …
Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (died 1872)
Minh Mạng, also known as Minh Mệnh, was the second emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam, reigning from 14 February 1820 until his death, on 20 January 1841. He was the fourth s…
Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (died 1841)
Félix Savart was a French physicist and mathematician who is primarily known for the Biot–Savart law of electromagnetism, which he discovered together with his colleague Jean-Bapti…
Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist (died 1841)
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In the United States and United Kingdom, he is best known as one…
The British under Charles Cornwallis defeat a Mysorean army under Tipu Sultan in the battle of Arakere
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 proposes the Self-denying Ordinance
Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became t…
King Louis XVI, disguised as a valet, and the French royal family attempt to flee Paris during the French Revolution
Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became t…
King Louis XVI and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution
Padua is a city and comune (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, 40 kilometres w…
At Padua, the Emperor Leopold II calls on the monarchs of Europe to join him in demanding the king of France Louis…
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jr., was the youngest child of six born to composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and the younge…
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1844)
Richard Price was a Welsh moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer and pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal …
Richard Price, Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (born 1723)
Francis Hopkinson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, author, and composer. He designed Continental paper money and two early versions of flags, one for the United Sta…
Francis Hopkinson, American judge and politician (born 1737)