Explore 451 historical events from 1790–1799.
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: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards…
Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became t…
King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre f…
Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the…
The September Massacres were a series of killings and summary executions of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792 from 2 September to 6 September during the French Revolution. B…
During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman…
Pope Pius IX was head of the Catholic Church from 16 June 1846 until his death in February 1878.
Pope Pius IX (died 1878)
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating…
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer (died 1843)
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, often called Major Mitchell, was a Scottish surveyor and explorer of Southeastern Australia. He was born in Scotland and served in the British Army…
Thomas Mitchell, Scottish-Australian colonel and explorer (died 1855)
John Linnell was an English engraver, portrait painter, and landscape painter. He was a naturalist and a rival to the artist John Constable. He had a taste for Northern European ar…
John Linnell, English painter and engraver (died 1882)
The Hope Diamond is a 45.52-carat blue diamond that has been famed for its great size and blue-violet color since the 17th century. It was extracted in the 17th century from the Ko…
The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
Ferdinand Christian Baur was a German Protestant theologian and founder and leader of the (new) Tübingen School of theology. Following Hegel's theory of dialectic, Baur argued that…
Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian and scholar (died 1860)
James Beaumont Neilson was a Scottish inventor whose hot-blast process greatly increased the efficiency of smelting iron.
James Beaumont Neilson, Scottish engineer and businessman (died 1865)
George Mifflin Dallas was an American politician and diplomat who served as the 11th vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. He also served as the mayor of Philadelp…
George M. Dallas, American lawyer and politician, 11th Vice President of the United States (died 1864)
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley …
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (died 1822)
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and …
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1878)
Manuel Ceferino Oribe y Viana was the 2nd Constitutional president of Uruguay and founder of Uruguay's National Party, the oldest Uruguayan political party and considered one of th…
Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan soldier and politician, 4th President of Uruguay (died 1857)
Charles Grandison Finney was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called the "Father of Old Revivalism". Fin…
Charles Grandison Finney, American minister and author (died 1875)
Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy was a French geologist and mineralogist.
Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (died 1857)
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, also spelled Carl Friedrich Bahrdt, was an unorthodox German Protestant biblical scholar, theologian, and polemicist. Controversial during his day, he is som…
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and author (born 1741)
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age …
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1718)
Charles Simon Favart was a French playwright and theatre director. The Salle Favart in Paris is named after him.
Charles Simon Favart, French playwright and composer (born 1710)
Lucius Levy Solomons was a Jewish Canadian merchant and fur trader.
Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (born 1730)
Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB was a Royal Navy officer, politician and colonial administrator. He is best known for his service in the American War of Indepen…
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Newfoundland (born 1718)
Benjamin Tupper was an American soldier in the French and Indian War, and an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, achieving the rank of brevet bri…
Benjamin Tupper, American general and surveyor (born 1738)
John Paul Jones was a British-American naval officer who served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War. Often referred to as the "Father of the American Navy…
John Paul Jones, Scottish-American admiral and diplomat (born 1747)