Explore 315 historical events from 1780–1789.
Leonhard Euler was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer. He founded the studies of graph the…
Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (born 1707)
The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player or simply the Turk, was a chess-playing machine first displayed in 1770, which appeared to be able to play a strong ga…
The Mechanical Turk (pictured), a fraudulent chess-playing "machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen that was secretly controll
The Second Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company from 1780 to 1784. At the time, Mysore was a key French ally in India, a…
Second Anglo-Mysore War: British troops surrendered the fortress of Bednore in southwestern India to French and Mysorean
Laki or Lakagígar is a volcanic fissure in the western part of Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland, not far from the volcanic fissure of Eldgjá and the small village of Kirkjubæjark…
Laki, a volcanic fissure in Iceland (pictured), began an eight-month eruption, triggering a major famine and causing wid
Mount Asama is an active stratovolcano in central Honshū, the main island of Japan. The volcano is the most active on Honshū. The Japan Meteorological Agency classifies Mount Asam…
Mount Asama (pictured) in Japan began a climactic eruption, which exacerbated the Great Tenmei famine and led to…
A meteor procession occurs when an Earth-grazing meteor breaks apart, and the fragments travel across the sky in the same path. According to physicist Donald Olson, only four occur…
A meteor procession blazed across the night sky over Great Britain.
The Raid on Lunenburg occurred during the American Revolution when the US privateer, Captain Noah Stoddard of Fairhaven, Massachusetts on the 'Scammell' with four other privateer v…
Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily was Queen of the French by marriage to Louis Philippe I, King of the French. She was the last Queen of the French.
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (died 1866)
Hirose Tanso was a neo-Confucian scholar, teacher and writer in late Edo Period Japan.
Hirose Tansō, Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, teacher, writer (died 1856)
Juan Larrea was a Spanish businessman and politician in Buenos Aires during the early nineteenth century. He headed a military unit during the second British invasion of the River …
Juan Larrea, Argentinian captain and politician (died 1847)
Maria Luisa of Spain was a Spanish infanta, daughter of King Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma. In 1795, she married her first cousin Louis of Bourbon-Parma, heir apparent to the…
Maria Luisa of Spain (died 1824)
John Field was an Irish pianist, composer and teacher widely credited as the inventor of the nocturne. While many of his contemporaries wrote in a similar style, Field was the firs…
John Field, Irish pianist and composer (died 1837)
Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña was a Mexican military officer from 1810 to 1821 and a statesman who became the nation's second president in 1829. He was one of the leading generals…
Vicente Guerrero, Mexican insurgent leader and President of Mexico (died 1831)
William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, PC, styled as Lord Talbot from 1737 to 1761, was an English peer and Whig politician. Talbot was a notable figure among opposition Whig politicians…
William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household (born 1710)
John Adams was a Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved in…
John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilo…
The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River
The Grand Palace is a complex of buildings at the heart of Bangkok, Thailand. The palace has been the official residence of the Kings of Siam since 1782. The king, his court, and h…
Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Budd
Phutthayotfa Chulalok, posthumously honoured as King Phutthayotfa Chulalok the Great, also known by his regnal name Rama I, was the founder of the Rattanakosin Kingdom and the firs…
King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) is crowned
Christine Kirch, was a German astronomer.
Christine Kirch, German astronomer and academic (born 1696)
Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander was the first university-educated scientist to set foot on Au…
Daniel Solander, Swedish-English botanist and phycologist (born 1736)
William Emerson was an English mathematician. He was born in Hurworth, near Darlington, where his father, Dudley Emerson, also a mathematician, taught a school.
William Emerson, English mathematician and academic (born 1701)
John Laurens was an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his efforts to help recruit slaves to fight for their f…
John Laurens, American Revolutionary and abolitionist (born 1754)
The States General of the Netherlands is the supreme bicameral legislature of the Netherlands consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Both chambers meet at the B…
The States General of the Dutch Republic received John Adams, and the house he had purchased in The Hague became the fir
The Congress of the Confederation, or the Confederation Congress, formally referred to as the United States in Congress Assembled, was the governing body of the United States from …
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