Explore 102 historical events from 1780–1789.
Erastus "Deaf" Smith, who earned his nickname due to hearing loss in childhood, was an American frontiersman noted for his part in the Texas Revolution and the Army of the Republic…
Deaf Smith, American soldier (died 1837)
Johann Ludwig Uhland was a German poet, philologist, literary historian, lawyer and politician.
Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (died 1862)
Jacques Viger was an antiquarian, archaeologist, and the first mayor of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Jacques Viger, Canadian archaeologist and politician, 1st mayor of Montreal (died 1858)
Louis-Constant Prévost was a French geologist.
Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (died 1856)
Sir William Watson, FRS was a British physician and scientist who was born and died in London. His early work was in botany, and he helped to introduce the work of Carl Linnaeus in…
William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (born 1715)
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, violinist, and music theorist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin te…
Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1719)
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. While the convention was initially intended to revise the league of states and the first…
The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia with the intention of revising the Articles of Confederation of the Un
John Vianney was a French Catholic priest and member of the Third Order of Mary who is often referred to as the Curé d'Ars. Canonized a saint in 1925, he is known for his priestly …
John Vianney, French priest and saint (died 1859)
Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditio…
John Franklin, English admiral and politician, fourth Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (died 1847)
Dimitris 'Koliopoulos' Plapoutas was a Greek general who fought during the Greek War of Independence against the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
Dimitris Plapoutas, Greek general and politician (died 1864)
Charles John Stanley was an English composer and organist.
John Stanley, English organist and composer (born 1712)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, German-Swedish chemist and pharmacist (born 1742)
Dom Peter III, nicknamed the Builder, was King of Portugal from 24 February 1777 to his death in 1786, by marriage to his niece Queen Dona Maria I.
Peter III of Portugal (born 1717)
The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, is a commedia per musica in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiere…
The Marriage of Figaro (audio featured), an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vien
Alexandre Pierre-François Boëly was a French composer, organist, pianist, and violist.
Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (died 1858)
John James Audubon was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist. His combined interests in painting and ornithology turned into a plan to mak…
John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (died 1851)
John Wilson FRSE was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
John Wilson, Scottish author and critic (died 1854)
Lieutenant-General Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul, KOHS, OGF was a French Royal Army officer, diplomat and statesman. From 1758 to 1761 and again from 1766 to 1770,…
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1719)
Pietro Longhi was a Venetian painter of contemporary genre scenes of life.
Pietro Longhi, Italian painter (born 1701)
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves was a French mathematician who published in 1740 a work on analytical geometry in which he applied it, without the aid of differential calculus, to find …
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician and academic (born 1713)
Élisabeth Thible, or Elizabeth Tible, was the first woman to make a flight in an untethered hot air balloon. She was born in Lyon, France, on 8 March 1757. On 4 June 1784, eight mo…
Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon
Peter Vivian Daniel was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Peter Vivian Daniel, American lawyer and jurist (died 1860)
Samuel Turell Armstrong was an American politician. Born in 1784 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, he was a printer and bookseller in Boston, specializing in religious materials. Among…
Samuel Turell Armstrong, American publisher and politician, 14th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (died 1850)
Solomon I the Great was a Georgian monarch who reigned as king (mepe) of Imereti in western Georgia from 1752 to 1765 and again from 1767 until his death in 1784.
Solomon I of Imereti (born 1735)