Explore 404 historical events from 1780–1789.
Franz Joseph von Schlik of Bassano and Weisskirchen was a count and general in the Austrian Empire. He was one of the most successful Austrian generals during the Hungarian Revolut…
Franz Schlik, Austrian earl and general (died 1862)
France, officially the French Republic, is a country primarily located in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre …
France: abolition of feudalism by the National Constituent Assembly.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human and civil rights document from the French Revolution; the…
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States. It is one of 15 current U.S. government depart…
The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy …
The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and…
The Battle of Rymnik or Rimnik, also Battle of Mărtinești, on September 22 [O.S. September 11] 1789, took place in Wallachia, at the Râmnicul Sărat River, known as the Rymnik, near…
Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
Katharina Buchwieser was a German operatic soprano and actress. She was known as Cathinka, and her married surname was Lacsny von Folkusfálva. She appeared at theatres of Vienna, t…
Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (died 1828)
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet, better known as Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects.
Horace Vernet, French painter and academic (died 1863)
Johann Friedrich Overbeck was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene art movement.
Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German-Italian painter and engraver (died 1869)
Maria Isabella of Spain was Queen of the Two Sicilies from 4 January 1825 until 8 November 1830 as the wife of Francis I of the Two Sicilies.
María Isabella of Spain (died 1846)
John Martin was an English Romantic painter, engraver, and illustrator. He was known for his typically vast and dramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions,…
John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (died 1854)
The Judiciary Act of 1789 is a United States federal statute enacted on September 24, 1789, during the first session of the First United States Congress. It established the federal…
The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary…
The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. It was proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratificati…
The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the…
George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces…
George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.
The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. It was proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratificati…
The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
Mahmud II was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. Often described as the "Peter the Great of Turkey", Mahmud instituted extensive administrative, mi…
Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (died 1839)
Vasil Evstatiev Aprilov was a Bulgarian educator, merchant, philanthropist, writer and a national activist. Aprilov was a leading figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. He contr…
Vasil Aprilov, Bulgarian educator, merchant and writer (died 1847)
Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist. He was one of the first to rigorously state and prove the key theorems of calculus, pioneered the f…
Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (died 1857)
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, also known as the Tzemach Tzedek, was an Orthodox rabbi, leading 19th-century posek, and the third Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement…
Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Polish rabbi (died 1866)
George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces…
George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 as Thanksgiving Day.
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the Black March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the Frenc…
French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.
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: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served from 1789 to 1795 as the first chief justice o…
John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
Josiah Henson was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada in 1830, and founded a settlement …
Josiah Henson, American minister, author, and activist (died 1883)