Explore 567 historical events from 1790–1799.
Captain William Hobson was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of New Zealand from 1841 to 1842. He was a co-author of the Treaty of Wa…
William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand explorer and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (died 1842)
Sir John Bowring, or Phrayā Siam Mānukūlakicca Siammitra Mahāyaśa was a British political economist, traveller, writer, literary translator, polyglot and the fourth Governor of Hon…
John Bowring, English polyglot and governor of Hong Kong (died 1826)
Lucas Alamán was a Mexican scientist, conservative statesman, historian, and writer. He came from an elite Guanajuato family and was well-traveled and highly educated. He was an ey…
Lucas Alamán, Mexican politician and historian (died 1853)
Jeanne Jugan, LSP, in religion Mary of the Cross, was a French Catholic religious sister who became known for the dedication of her life to the neediest of the elderly poor. Her se…
Jeanne Jugan, French nun (died 1879)
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, also spelled Carl Friedrich Bahrdt, was an unorthodox German Protestant biblical scholar, theologian, and polemicist. Controversial during his day, he is som…
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and author (born 1741)
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age …
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1718)
Charles Simon Favart was a French playwright and theatre director. The Salle Favart in Paris is named after him.
Charles Simon Favart, French playwright and composer (born 1710)
Lucius Levy Solomons was a Jewish Canadian merchant and fur trader.
Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (born 1730)
Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB was a Royal Navy officer, politician and colonial administrator. He is best known for his service in the American War of Indepen…
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Newfoundland (born 1718)
Benjamin Tupper was an American soldier in the French and Indian War, and an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, achieving the rank of brevet bri…
Benjamin Tupper, American general and surveyor (born 1738)
John Paul Jones was a British-American naval officer who served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War. Often referred to as the "Father of the American Navy…
John Paul Jones, Scottish-American admiral and diplomat (born 1747)
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)
Emperor Quang Trung or Nguyễn Huệ, also known as Nguyễn Quang Bình, or Hồ Thơm was the second emperor of the Tây Sơn dynasty, reigning from 1788 until 1792. He was also one of the …
Nguyễn Huệ, Vietnamese emperor (born 1753)
August Gottlieb Spangenberg was a German theologian, minister, and bishop of the Moravian Church. As successor to Nicolaus Zinzendorf as bishop of the Moravian Church, he helped de…
August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (born 1704)
Count Adam Gottlob von Moltke was a German-born Danish courtier, politician and diplomat who was a favourite of Frederick V of Denmark-Norway. Moltke was born at Riesenhof in Meckl…
Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish politician and diplomat (born 1710)
Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière was a French astronomer who discovered several nebulae and was appointed to the Royal Academy of Sciences. He wr…
Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (born 1725)
Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring was a German physician, botanist and zoologist.
Paul Möhring, German physician, botanist, and zoologist (born 1710)
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
George Mason was an American planter, politician, Founding Father, and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, one of three delegates who refused to…
George Mason, American lawyer and politician (born 1725)
John Smeaton was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent scholar…
John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (born 1724)
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