Explore 387 historical events from 1790–1799.
Louise-Adéone Drölling, also known as Madame Joubert was a French painter and draughtswoman. Both her father, Martin Drolling, and her older brother, Michel Martin Drolling, were c…
Louise-Adéone Drölling, French painter (died 1836)
Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, also known as Karl Friedrich Naumann, was a German mineralogist and geologist. The crater Naumann on the Moon is named after him.
Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist (died 1873)
Father José Trinidad Reyes y Sevilla was a Honduran priest who founded the National Autonomous University of Honduras, formerly called "La Sociedad del Genio emprendedor y del buen…
José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran philosopher and theorist (died 1855)
Hamilton Hume was an early explorer of the present-day Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria. In 1824, along with William Hovell, Hume participated in an expedition tha…
Hamilton Hume, Australian explorer (died 1873)
Wilhelm Ludwig von Küchelbecker was a Russian Romantic poet and Decembrist revolutionary of German descent.
Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Russian poet and author (died 1846)
John Joseph Hughes was an Irish-born Catholic prelate who served as bishop of New York from 1842 until his death. In 1841, he founded St. John's College, which would later become F…
John Hughes, Irish-American archbishop (died 1864)
Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, also known as Paul Edmund de Strzelecki and Sir Paul Strzelecki, was a Polish explorer, geologist, humanitarian, environmentalist, nobleman, scientist,…
Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish geologist and explorer (died 1873)
Francisco Javier Echeverría was a Mexican businessman and finance minister who served as interim president of Mexico for about two weeks in late September 1841, during the fall of …
Francisco Javier Echeverría, Mexican businessman and politician. President of Mexico (1841) (died 1852)
Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey, styled Lord Paget 1812 and 1815 and Earl of Uxbridge from 1815 to 1854, was a British peer and Whig politician. He served as Lord Chamberlain…
Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (died 1869)
Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche was a French painter known for his depiction of scenes from English and French history. The emotions emphasised in Delaroche's paintings appeal to Romantic…
Paul Delaroche, French painter and academic (died 1856)
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel was the wife of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the tenth-born child and seventh son of George III of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Meckl…
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (died 1889)
Daniel Drew was an American businessman, steamship and railroad developer, and financier, one of the "robber barons" of the Gilded Age. Summarizing his life, Henry Clews wrote: "Of…
Daniel Drew, American businessman and financier (died 1879)
Friedrich August Kummer, born in Meiningen, the Holy Roman Empire, was a cellist, pedagogue, and composer.
Friedrich August Kummer, German cellist and composer (died 1879)
Charles Robert Malden was a nineteenth-century British naval officer, surveyor and educator. He is the discoverer of Malden Island in the central Pacific, which is named in his hon…
Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and surveyor (died 1855)
Michel-Jean Sedaine was a French dramatist and librettist, especially noted for his librettos for opéras comiques, in which he took an important and influential role in the advance…
Michel-Jean Sedaine, French playwright and composer (born 1719)
Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, also known by his regnal name of Agha Mohammad Shah, was the founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran, ruling as Shah from 1789 to 1797.
Mohammad Khan Qajar, Persian tribal chief (born 1742)
Ienăchiță Văcărescu was a Wallachian Romanian poet, historian, philologist, and boyar belonging to the Văcărescu family. A polyglot, he was able to speak Ancient and Modern Greek, …
Ienăchiță Văcărescu, Romanian historian and philologist (born 1740)
Innocent of Alaska, also known as Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow, was a Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and fina…
Saint Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the…
Field Marshal John Griffin Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, KB, was a British Army officer, politician and peer. He served as a junior officer with the Pragmatic Army in the Du…
John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (born 1719)
François-Noël Babeuf, also known as Gracchus Babeuf, was a French proto-communist, revolutionary, and journalist of the French Revolutionary period. His newspaper Le Tribun du Peup…
François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist (born 1760)
Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism. Regarded as one …
Edmund Burke, Irish-English philosopher, academic, and politician (born 1729)
Emanuel Granberg (1754–1797) was a Finnish painter.
Emanuel Granberg, Finnish church painter (born 1754)
Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces. He is credited as the architect of Britain's successful campaign t…
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1717)
Dagobert Sigmund, Count von Wurmser was an Austrian field marshal during the French Revolutionary Wars. Although he fought in the Seven Years' War, the War of the Bavarian Successi…
Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (born 1724)