Explore 567 historical events from 1790–1799.
In the First Battle of Wissembourg an Allied army commanded by Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser attacked the French Army of the Rhine under Jean Pascal Carlenc. After an ineffectual re…
French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
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 Battle of Wattignies saw a French army commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan attack a Coalition army directed by Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After two days of combat Jo…
War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
Colonel Pavel Ivanovich Pestel was a Russian revolutionary and ideologue of the Decembrists.
Pavel Pestel, Russian officer (died 1826)
John Clare was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and his sorrows at its disruption. His work underwent ma…
John Clare, English poet and author (died 1864)
Almira Lincoln Phelps was an American scientist, educator, author, and editor. Her botany writings influenced more early American women to be botanists, including Eunice Newton Foo…
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, author, editor (died 1884)
John Neal was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist. Considered both eccentric and influential, he delivered speeches and published essays, novels, poems, and …
John Neal, American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist (died 1876)
Harriet Arbuthnot was an early 19th-century English diarist, social observer and political hostess on behalf of the Tory party. During the 1820s she was the closest woman friend of…
Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (died 1834)
Charles Pearson was a British lawyer and politician. He was solicitor to the City of London, a reforming campaigner, and – briefly – Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Lambeth.…
Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (died 1862)
Maria James was a Welsh-born American poet and domestic servant. Her poetry includes Ode on the Fourth of July 1833. As a child, she emigrated with her family from Wales to New Yo…
Maria James, Welsh-born American poet, domestic servant (died 1868)
Eliphalet Remington II was an American engineer who founded what would become known as Remington Arms. Originally the company was known as E. Remington followed by E. Remington & S…
Eliphalet Remington, American businessman, founded Remington Arms (died 1861)
Martin Gerbert, was a German theologian, historian and writer on music, belonged to the noble family of Gerbert von Hornau, and was born at Horb am Neckar, Württemberg, on 12 Augus…
Martin Gerbert, German historian and theologian (born 1720)
Pietro Nardini was an Italian composer and violinist, a transitional musician who worked in both the Baroque and Classical era traditions.
Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer (born 1722)
Charles Bonnet was a Genevan naturalist and philosophical writer. He is responsible for coining the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant. He was among …
Charles Bonnet, Swiss botanist and biologist (born 1720)
Gilbert White was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist, and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.
Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (born 1720)
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…
Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, scientist and theorist (born 1743)
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, known as Charlotte Corday, was a reactionary figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Ma…
Charlotte Corday, French murderer (born 1768)
Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, chevalier d'Entrecasteaux was a French Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator who served as the Governor of Isle de France from 1787 to …
Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French admiral, explorer, and politician (born 1739)
Roger Sherman was an early American politician, lawyer, and a Founding Father of the United States. Representing Connecticut, he was the only person to sign all four great state pa…
Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (born 1721)
Louis de Noailles, 4th Duke of Noailles was a French peer and Marshal of France.
Louis de Noailles, French general (born 1713)
Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine was a French Army officer. As a young officer in the French Royal Army, he served in the Seven Years' War. In the American Revolutionary War he join…
Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (born 1740)