Explore 186 historical events from 1790–1799.
Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso was the dean of the College of Cardinals during the last part of the record long reign of Pope Pius IX.
Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, Italian cardinal (died 1878)
Johan Carl Wilcke was a Swedish physicist.
Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (born 1732)
Johann Peter Uz was a German poet.
Johann Uz, German poet and author (born 1720)
Baron Carl Fredrik Pechlin was a Swedish politician and demagogue.
Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish general and politician (born 1720)
Samuel Whitbread was a British brewer and politician. In 1742, he established a brewery that in 1799 became Whitbread & Co Ltd.
Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded the Whitbread Company (born 1720)
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, No…
Tennessee was admitted as the 16th state of the United States
Swellendam is the third oldest town in South Africa, a town with 17,537 inhabitants situated in the Western Cape province. The town has over 50 provincial heritage sites, most of t…
The burghers of Swellendam expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic
Gérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist.
Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and chronologist (died 1875)
Johns Hopkins was an American merchant, investor, and philanthropist best known for funding the establishment of Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital, which have sin…
Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1873)
Pedro Bernardino María de Anaya y Álvarez was a Mexican soldier who served twice as interim president of Mexico during the Mexican-American War. Inbetween presidencies, he directly…
Pedro María de Anaya, Mexican soldier
James Braid was a Scottish surgeon, natural philosopher, and "gentleman scientist". He was a significant innovator in the treatment of clubfoot, spinal curvature, knock-knees, ban…
James Braid, Scottish-English surgeon (died 1860)
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: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed
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: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admir
Sir Charles Barry was an English architect best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for nu…
Charles Barry, English architect, designed the Upper Brook Street Chapel and Halifax Town Hall (died 1860)
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy was a French Catholic clergyman, archaeologist, numismatologist and scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. He deciphered the P…
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French archaeologist and author (born 1716)
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Rogers was a British Army officer and frontiersman. Born in Methuen, Province of Massachusetts Bay, he fought in King George's War, the French and Indian …
Robert Rogers, English colonel (born 1731)
Josiah Bartlett was an American Founding Father, physician, statesman, a delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, and a signatory to the Declaration of Independence …
Josiah Bartlett, American physician and politician, 4th Governor of New Hampshire (born 1729)
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, …
James Boswell, Scottish biographer (born 1740)
Ewald Friedrich Graf von Hertzberg was a Prussian statesman.
Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (born 1725)
Pierre-Joseph Desault was a French anatomist and surgeon.
Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (born 1744)
Louis XVII was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette. His older brother, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, died in June 1789, a little over a month …
Louis XVII of France (born 1785)
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: Off the coast of Brittany, a Royal Navy squadron commanded by William Cornwallis (pictured) f
Sardinians or Sards are an ethnolinguistic group of Italy indigenous to Sardinia, an island in the western Mediterranean which is administratively an autonomous region of Italy.
Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano
The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom, also known officially as the Kingdom of Corsica, was a client state of the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed on the island of Corsica from 1794 to 1…
Foundation of Anglo-Corsican Kingdom