Explore 387 historical events from 1790–1799.
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland. The main organising force was t…
Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland. The main organising force was t…
Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland. The main organising force was t…
Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill
František Palacký was a Czech historian and politician. He was the most influential person of the Czech National Revival, called "Father of the Nation".
František Palacký, Czech historian and politician (died 1876)
Wolfgang Menzel was a German poet, critic and literary historian, who was born in Waldenburg (Wałbrzych) in Prussian Silesia.
Wolfgang Menzel, German poet and critic (died 1873)
Willibald Alexis, the pseudonym of Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Häring, was a German historical novelist, considered part of the Young Germany movement.
Willibald Alexis, German author and poet (died 1871)
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…
George Vancouver, English navigator and explorer (born 1757)
The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the presidency of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican Fr…
As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines or simply the Marines, is the naval infantry service branch of the United States Armed Forces. …
The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
The Armée d'Orient was the French military force gathered by the French Directory to send on the expedition to Ottoman Egypt in 1798. The expedition had the intention of barring Gr…
The French Armée d'Orient under Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a Mamluk army under Murad Bey in battle of Shubra Khit.
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were four U.S. statutes that restricted naturalization, empowered the president of the United States to detain and deport foreigners, and crimin…
The Sedition Act of 1798 becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false…
The French invasion of Egypt and Syria (1798–1801) was a military expedition to Ottoman-held Egypt and Syria led by Napoleon Bonaparte during the French Revolutionary Wars. The cam…
French campaign in Egypt and Syria: Napoleon's forces defeat an Ottoman-Mamluk army near Cairo in the Battle of the…
William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and great-uncle of the poet George Gordon Byron who succeeded him in the title. As a result of a number of…
William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (born 1722)
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was an adventurer and writer who was born in the Republic of Venice and travelled extensively throughout Europe. He is chiefly remembered for his autobiog…
Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and author (born 1725)
Thomas Sandby was an English draughtsman, watercolour artist, architect and teacher. In 1743 he was appointed private secretary to the Duke of Cumberland, who later appointed him D…
Thomas Sandby, English cartographer, painter, and architect (born 1721)
James Dickey was a young barrister from a Presbyterian family in Crumlin in the north of Ireland who was active in the Society of the United Irishmen and was hanged with Henry Joy …
James Dickey, Irish revolutionary (born 1776)
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great B…
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the…
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great B…
French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of Mainland Southeast Asia. With an area of about 331,000 square kilometres and a pop…
The Vietnamese Catholics report a Marian apparition in Quảng Trị, an event which is called Our Lady of La Vang.
Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone, was a revolutionary exponent of Irish independence and is an iconic figure for Irish republicanism. Convinced that if his fel…
Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish…
Alexander Thomson of Banchory FRSE (1798–1868) was a 19th-century Scottish advocate, agriculturalist, antiquary, author, philanthropist and traveller. He owned an estate at Banchor…
Alexander Thomson of Banchory, Scottish jurist, agriculturalist and religious activist (died 1868)
John Henry Colclough was a United Irishman, who was executed in Wexford following the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
John Henry Colclough, Irish revolutionary (born c
Anna Gardie was a French Saint-Domingue-born American stage actress and dancer who was known for her roles in ballet-pantomimes such as La Foret Noire and Sophia of Brabant. She wa…
Anna Gardie, French-American dancer and actress (born c. 1760)
François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, a Walloon, joined the army of the Habsburg monarchy and soon fought in the Seven Years' War. Later in his military ca…
François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (born 1733)