Explore 567 historical events from 1790–1799.
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)
Franz Ernst Neumann was a German mineralogist and physicist. He devised the first formulas to calculate inductance. He also formulated Neumann's law for molecular heat. In electrom…
Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (died 1895)
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…
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.
Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont was a French geologist. Among his ideas was that mountains were created in a series of episodes over geological time due to the c…
Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (died 1874)
Charles Albert was the King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard state from 27 April 1831 until his abdication in 1849. His name is bound up with the first Italian constitution, t…
Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831–49) (died 1849)
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…
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: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht.
Conscription, also known as the draft in American English and Philippine English, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military servic…
Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
The Peasants' War was a peasant revolt in 1798 against the French Republican occupiers of the Southern Netherlands, a region which now includes Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Ge…
Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume was a French luthier, businessman, inventor and winner of many awards.
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (died 1875)
Dom Pedro I, known in Brazil and in Portugal as "the Liberator" or "the Soldier King" in Portugal, was the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and Kin…
Pedro I, emperor of Brazil (died 1834)
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)
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)
Ali Pasha, commonly known as Ali Pasha of Yanina or Ali Pasha of Tepelena, was an Albanian ruler who served as pasha of the Pashalik of Yanina, a large part of western Rumelia, in …
The forces of Ali Pasha of Janina defeat the French and capture the town of Preveza in the Battle of Nicopolis.
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)
Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th ce…
Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (died 1837)
Sangolli Rayanna was an Indian military leader. Born in Sangolli, Belagavi district. His father was Bharamappa Rogannavar. His mother was Kenchava. He served as a senior commander …
Sangolli Rayanna, Indian warrior (died 1831)
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)