Explore 200 historical events from 1780–1789.
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)
Mordecai Manuel Noah was an American sheriff, playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. He was born in a family of mixed Ashkenazi and Portuguese Sephardic ancestry and was th…
Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist, playwright, and diplomat (died 1851)
Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe was a British army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North A…
James Oglethorpe, English general and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Georgia (born 1696)
King's Chapel is an independent Unitarian congregation in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association and describes itself as…
The proprietors of King's Chapel, Boston, voted to adopt James Freeman's Book of Common Prayer, thus establishing the fi
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)
Juan Antonio Lavalleja y de la Torre was an Uruguayan libertador, revolutionary, military general, and political figure. He was born in Minas, in a region now named after him as th…
Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan general and politician, President of Uruguay (died 1853)
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the Sun …
Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1846)
Denis Vasilyevich Davydov was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented the genre of hussar poetry, characterised by hedonism and bravado. He used events from his …
Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (died 1839)
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)
Honora "Nano" Nagle was an Irish Catholic religious sister who served as a pioneer of Catholic education in Ireland despite legal prohibitions. She founded the Sisters of the Prese…
Nano Nagle, Irish nun and educator, founded the Presentation Sisters (born 1718)
Abraham Trembley was a Genevan naturalist. He is best known for being the first to study freshwater polyps or hydra and for being among the first to develop experimental zoology. H…
Abraham Trembley, Swiss zoologist and academic (born 1710)
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. Despite his ackn…
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (born 1710)
Torbern Olof Bergman (KVO) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever publ…
Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (born 1735)
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 became the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon, covering a distance of 4 km (2
Henry Middleton was an American politician and planter from South Carolina. A member of the colonial legislature, during the American Revolution he attended the First Continental C…
Henry Middleton, American farmer and politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (born 1717)
Caesar Rodney was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and politician from St. Jones Neck in Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware. He was an officer of the Delaware militia during …
Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (born 1728)
A volcanic eruption occurs when material is expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure. Several types of volcanic eruptions have been distinguished by volcanologists. These are often…
A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France
Reginald Heber was an English Anglican bishop, a man of letters, and hymn-writer. After 16 years as a country parson, he served as Bishop of Calcutta until his death at the age of …
Reginald Heber, English priest (died 1821)
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader Amer…
American Revolutionary War: Colbert's Raid: A Spanish garrison under Captain Jacobo du Breuil defeat British irregulars
David Cox was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism.
David Cox, English landscape painter (died 1859)