Explore 451 historical events from 1790–1799.
Charles Bonnet was a Genevan naturalist and philosophical writer. He is responsible for coining the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant. He was among …
Charles Bonnet, Swiss botanist and biologist (born 1720)
Gilbert White was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist, and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.
Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (born 1720)
Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, chevalier d'Entrecasteaux was a French Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator who served as the Governor of Isle de France from 1787 to …
Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French admiral, explorer, and politician (born 1739)
Roger Sherman was an early American politician, lawyer, and a Founding Father of the United States. Representing Connecticut, he was the only person to sign all four great state pa…
Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (born 1721)
Louis de Noailles, 4th Duke of Noailles was a French peer and Marshal of France.
Louis de Noailles, French general (born 1713)
Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine was a French Army officer. As a young officer in the French Royal Army, he served in the Seven Years' War. In the American Revolutionary War he join…
Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (born 1740)
Jean-Paul Marat was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes…
Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, scientist and theorist (born 1743)
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, known as Charlotte Corday, was a reactionary figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Ma…
Charlotte Corday, French murderer (born 1768)
Fletcher Christian was an English sailor who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, during which he seized command of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty from Lieutenant William Bligh.
Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer (born 1764)
Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America north of Mexico by a European in 1793. The Mackenzie Rive…
Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific coast at Bella Coola, British Columbia, completing the first…
The Louvre is a national art museum in Paris, France. It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district) and home to some of the most canonica…
The Louvre (pyramid pictured) in Paris, today the world's most-visited museum, opened with an exhibition of 537…
The War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic. It pitted …
War of the Pyrenees: Forces from the French Army of the Eastern Pyrenees defeated two divisions of the Army of…
Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes, was a leading member of the colonial Brazilian revolutionary movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira, whose aim was full inde…
Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered
A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers. This type of thief usually travelled and robbed by horse as compared to a footpad who travelled and robbed on foot; mounted hig…
Highwayman Nicolas J
Francis II and I was the last Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835. He was also King of Germany, Hung…
France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars
"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. It was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by the First French Republic …
"La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
The Austrian Netherlands were the territory of the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire between 1714 and 1797. The period began with the acquisition by the Austrian Habsburg …
France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars
The New York Stock Exchange is an American stock exchange headquartered at the New York Stock Exchange Building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is…
The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement
In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular, mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano. Dome-building eruptions are common, particularl…
A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsun
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West …
Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States
Captain (Capt.) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy. It ranks above commander and below commodore and has a NATO ranking code of OF-5. The rank is equivalent to a colonel in…
Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain
The Battle of Valmy, also known as the Cannonade of Valmy, was the first major victory by the army of France during the Revolutionary Wars that followed the French Revolution. The …
French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
John Thomas Romney Robinson, usually referred to as Thomas Romney Robinson, was an Irish astronomer. He was the director of the Armagh Observatory, one of the chief astronomical ob…
Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (died 1882)
The Brunswick Manifesto was a proclamation issued by Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, commander of the Allied army, on 25 July 1792 to the population of Paris during t…
The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.