Explore 387 historical events from 1790–1799.
Lieutenant général des armées navales Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte was a French Navy officer. Over a career spanning 50 years, he served under Louis XV and Louis XVI and…
Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (born 1720)
The Priestley Riots took place from 14 July to 17 July 1791 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; the rioters' main targets were religious dissenters, most notably the politically …
Beginning of Priestley Riots (to 17 July) in Birmingham targeting Joseph Priestley as a supporter of the French…
The National Guard is a French military, gendarmerie, and police reserve force, active in its current form since 2016 but originally founded in 1789 during the French Revolution. I…
Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins…
The Miami are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, whose Miami–Illinois language in one of the Algonquian languages. They are a Great Lakes tribe, who historically o…
American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the…
Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1659 to 1803. The name derives from the Spani…
Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking…
Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1659 to 1803. The name derives from the Spani…
Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue, led by Dutty Boukman, held a Vodou ceremony that became a pivotal act of…
Martin Dobrizhoffer was an Austrian Roman Catholic missionary and writer.
Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian missionary and author (born 1717)
Isaac Low was an American merchant in New York City who served as a member of the Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association. He later served as a delegate t…
Isaac Low, American merchant and politician (born 1735)
Charles François de Broglie, Marquis of Ruffec was a French Royal Army officer and diplomat from the House of Broglie. He was one of the foremost diplomats in the service of Louis …
Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (born 1719)
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 ratified the first codified national constitution in Europe
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 signing of the Treaty of Sistova brought an end to the Austro-Turkish War.
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country in the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas. It occup…
The Haitian slave revolution begins in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
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: Frederick William II of Prussia and Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, issue the Declaration of…
Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Haldimand, KB was a Swiss army officer and colonial administrator best known for his service in the British Army in North America during the Seven …
Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-Canadian general and politician, 22nd governor of Quebec (born 1718)
The Priestley Riots took place from 14 July to 17 July 1791 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; the rioters' main targets were religious dissenters, most notably the politically …
The Priestley Riots, targeting religious dissenters such as Joseph Priestley, began in Birmingham, England.
Rhode Island is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean…
Rhode Island becomes the last of North America's original Thirteen Colonies to ratify the Constitution and become one of
Manuel Quimper Benítez del Pino was a Spanish Peruvian explorer, cartographer, naval officer, and colonial official. He participated in charting the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the …
Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca
In the United States of America, copyright grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship". With the stated purpose to promote art and culture, copyright law assig…
The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790
The Swedish Navy is the maritime service branch of the Swedish Armed Forces. It is composed of surface and submarine naval units – the Fleet, sometimes formally referred to as the …
The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic fleet.
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that sought the complete control over the Catholic Church in France by the Frenc…
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
The Fête de la Fédération was a massive holiday festival held throughout France in 1790 in honour of the French Revolution, celebrating the Revolution itself, as well as national u…
Inaugural Fête de la Fédération is held to celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation.
The 1790 United States census was the first United States census. It recorded the population of the whole United States as of Census Day, August 2, 1790, as mandated by Article 1, …
The first United States Census is conducted.
The Treaty of Värälä was signed in Värälä, Elimäki Municipality, Finland, between Russia and Sweden. It was signed on 14 August 1790 and concluded the Russo-Swedish War. The treaty…
The Treaty of Wereloe ended the 1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War.
Manuel José Blanco y Calvo de Encalada was a vice-admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President (Provisional) (1826).
Manuel Blanco Encalada, Spanish-Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (died 1876)