Explore 451 historical events from 1790–1799.
James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He also served as the 17th United States secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represe…
James Buchanan, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 15th President of the United States (died 1868)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of …
Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (died 1872)
The Priestley Riots took place from 14 July to 17 July 1791 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; the rioters' main targets were religious dissenters, most notably the politically …
Beginning of Priestley Riots (to 17 July) in Birmingham targeting Joseph Priestley as a supporter of the French…
The National Guard is a French military, gendarmerie, and police reserve force, active in its current form since 2016 but originally founded in 1789 during the French Revolution. I…
Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins…
The Miami are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, whose Miami–Illinois language in one of the Algonquian languages. They are a Great Lakes tribe, who historically o…
American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the…
Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1659 to 1803. The name derives from the Spani…
Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking…
Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1659 to 1803. The name derives from the Spani…
Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue, led by Dutty Boukman, held a Vodou ceremony that became a pivotal act of…
Minh Mạng, also known as Minh Mệnh, was the second emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam, reigning from 14 February 1820 until his death, on 20 January 1841. He was the fourth s…
Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (died 1841)
Félix Savart was a French physicist and mathematician who is primarily known for the Biot–Savart law of electromagnetism, which he discovered together with his colleague Jean-Bapti…
Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist (died 1841)
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jr., was the youngest child of six born to composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and the younge…
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1844)
Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Maria Gioachino Raimondo Belli was an Italian poet, famous for his sonnets in Romanesco, the dialect of Rome.
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Italian poet and author (died 1863)
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country in the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas. It occup…
The Haitian slave revolution begins in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
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: Frederick William II of Prussia and Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, issue the Declaration of…
HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. The vessel is best known for its role in hunting down the Bounty mutineers in …
HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
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 accepts the new French constitution.
Giacomo Meyerbeer was a German opera composer, linking Mozart and Wagner. With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera "decisive charac…
Giacomo Meyerbeer, German pianist and composer (died 1864)
Franz Bopp was a German linguist known for extensive and pioneering comparative work on Indo-European languages.
Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (died 1867)
Richard Price was a Welsh moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer and pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal …
Richard Price, Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (born 1723)
Francis Hopkinson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, author, and composer. He designed Continental paper money and two early versions of flags, one for the United Sta…
Francis Hopkinson, American judge and politician (born 1737)
Lieutenant général des armées navales Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte was a French Navy officer. Over a career spanning 50 years, he served under Louis XV and Louis XVI and…
Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (born 1720)
Martin Dobrizhoffer was an Austrian Roman Catholic missionary and writer.
Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian missionary and author (born 1717)
Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Haldimand, KB was a Swiss army officer and colonial administrator best known for his service in the British Army in North America during the Seven …
Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-Canadian general and politician, 22nd governor of Quebec (born 1718)
Isaac Low was an American merchant in New York City who served as a member of the Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association. He later served as a delegate t…
Isaac Low, American merchant and politician (born 1735)
Charles François de Broglie, Marquis of Ruffec was a French Royal Army officer and diplomat from the House of Broglie. He was one of the foremost diplomats in the service of Louis …
Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (born 1719)