Explore 315 historical events from 1780–1789.
Abdülhamid I or Abdul Hamid I was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1774 to 1789. A devout and pacifist sultan, he inherited a bankrupt empire and sought military reforms, incl…
Sultan Abdul Hamid I declares war against the Russian Empire in an effort to regain territories lost in previous…
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, …
The United States Constitution is signed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, bringing the Constitutional Convention…
Justina Jeffreys was a Jamaican-born British gentlewoman in Wales. She resided the majority of her life at Glandyfi Castle which was built by her husband.
Justina Jeffreys, Jamaican-born British gentlewoman (died 1869)
Teresa Casati Confalonieri was an Italian noblewoman and revolutionist. She is known as the wife of revolutionist Federico Confalonieri, sister of former Prime Minister of the King…
Teresa Casati, Italian noblewomen and revolutionary (died 1830)
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)
Lavinia Stoddard was an American poet and school founder from Connecticut. She spent her early years in New Jersey, where she received her education. After marrying physician Willi…
Lavinia Stoddard, American poet, school founder (died 1820)
Eliza Lee Cabot Follen was an American writer, editor, and abolitionist. In her early life, she contributed various pieces of prose and poetry to papers and magazines. In 1828, she…
Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, American writer, editor, abolitionist (died 1860)
Carl Friedrich Abel was a German composer of the early Classical era. He was a renowned player of the viola da gamba, and produced significant compositions for that instrument. He …
Carl Friedrich Abel, German viol player and composer (born 1723)
Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise was a French Royal Army officer and courtier who served during the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI. He was the last male of his branch of the H…
Charles de Rohan, French marshal (born 1715)
Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise was a French Royal Army officer and courtier who served during the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI. He was the last male of his branch of the H…
Charles, Prince of Soubise, Marshal of France (born 1715)
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian…
Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (born 1696)
Francis Blackburne was an English Anglican clergyman, archdeacon of Cleveland and an activist against the requirement of subscription to the Thirty Nine Articles.
Francis Blackburne, English Anglican churchman and activist (born 1705)
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
A landslide dam is the natural damming of a river by some kind of landslide, such as a debris flow, rock avalanche or volcanic eruption. If the damming landslide is caused by an ea…
A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan pr
Gavriil Loginovich Pribylov was a Russian navigator who discovered the Bering Sea islands of St. George Island and St. Paul Island in 1786 and 1787. The islands, and surrounding sm…
Gavriil Pribylov discovers St
Bishop Alexander Macdonell was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Kingston, Upper Canada.
Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontar
Mont Blanc is a mountain in the Alps, rising 4,807.3 m above sea level, located right at the Franco-Italian border. It is the highest mountain in Europe outside the Caucasus Mounta…
Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land held and governed by a Native American tribal nation officially recognized by the U.S. federal government. The reserva…
The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
Francis Light was a British sailor and explorer best known for founding the colony of Penang and its capital city of George Town in 1786. Light was the father of William Light, who…
Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
The Annapolis Convention was a national political convention held September 11–14, 1786 in the old Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
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)
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increase…
Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
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)