Explore 567 historical events from 1790–1799.
Fletcher Christian was an English sailor who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, during which he seized command of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty from Lieutenant William Bligh.
Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer (born 1764)
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire,, known as the 2nd Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the 1st Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of …
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician, President of the Board of Trade (born 1718)
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot was a French Jesuit priest who worked in Qing China, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary and linguist (born 1718)
Marie Antoinette was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the French monarchy in 1792 during the French Revolution.
Marie Antoinette, Austrian-born queen consort of Louis XVI of France (born 1755)
John Hunter was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific methods in medi…
John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (born 1728)
John Hancock was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He was the longest-serving president of the Continental Congres…
John Hancock, American merchant and politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts (born 1737)
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…
Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific coast at Bella Coola, British Columbia, completing the first…
The Louvre is a national art museum in Paris, France. It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district) and home to some of the most canonica…
The Louvre (pyramid pictured) in Paris, today the world's most-visited museum, opened with an exhibition of 537…
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: Forces from the French Army of the Eastern Pyrenees defeated two divisions of the Army of…
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: After a month-long siege, the leaders of Lyon surrendered, ending their revolt against the National…
The War of the First Coalition was a set of wars between a coalition of several European powers and France fought from 1792 to 1797. The coalition was only loosely allied and fough…
War of the First Coalition: The two-day Battle of Wattignies concluded with Jean-Baptiste Jourdan leading French…
Francis II and I was the last Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835. He was also King of Germany, Hung…
France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars
Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes, was a leading member of the colonial Brazilian revolutionary movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira, whose aim was full inde…
Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered
A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers. This type of thief usually travelled and robbed by horse as compared to a footpad who travelled and robbed on foot; mounted hig…
Highwayman Nicolas J
"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. It was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by the First French Republic …
"La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
The Austrian Netherlands were the territory of the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire between 1714 and 1797. The period began with the acquisition by the Austrian Habsburg …
France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars
Captain (Capt.) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy. It ranks above commander and below commodore and has a NATO ranking code of OF-5. The rank is equivalent to a colonel in…
Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain
The Battle of Valmy, also known as the Cannonade of Valmy, was the first major victory by the army of France during the Revolutionary Wars that followed the French Revolution. The …
French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
Vendémiaire was the first month in the French Republican calendar. The month was named after the Occitan word vendemiaire 'grape harvester'.
Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
The New York Stock Exchange is an American stock exchange headquartered at the New York Stock Exchange Building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is…
The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement
In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular, mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano. Dome-building eruptions are common, particularl…
A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsun
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West …
Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States
The Brunswick Manifesto was a proclamation issued by Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, commander of the Allied army, on 25 July 1792 to the population of Paris during t…
The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
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: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards…