Explore 451 historical events from 1790–1799.
Joseph Dart was an American businessman and entrepreneur associated with the grain industry. He was well educated and at the age of 17 began an apprenticeship in a hat factory befo…
Joseph Dart, American businessman and entrepreneur (died 1879)
Louisa Caroline Tuthill was an American author, one of the most successful in the 19th-century. In addition to the first history of architecture published in the United States, His…
Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill, American author (died 1879)
Richard Jupp was an English architect particularly associated with buildings in and around London. He served for many years as surveyor to the British East India Company.
Richard Jupp, English surveyor and architect (born 1728)
Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain from 17 October 1789 to 11 July 1794. In his …
Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo (born 1740)
Tipu Sultan, commonly referred to as Sher-e-Mysore, was the Sultan of Mysore from 1782 until his death in 1799. He was a pioneer of rocket artillery. He expanded the iron-cased Mys…
Tipu, ruler of Mysore (born 1750)
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French playwright and diplomat of the Age of Enlightenment. Best known for his three Figaro plays, at various times in his life he was a…
Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and publisher (born 1732)
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo was a Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist. He is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical lin…
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish linguist, biologist, and judge (born 1714)
Patrick Henry was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served…
Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (born 1736)
Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, Earl Howe was a Royal Navy officer and politician. After serving in the War of the Austrian Succession, he gained a reputation for his role in am…
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral and politician (born 1726)
Giuseppe Parini was an Italian satirist and Neoclassical poet.
Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet and author (born 1729)
Pope Pius VI was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 February 1775 to his death in August 1799.
Pius VI, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1717)
Nicolas-Henri Jardin was a French architect. Born in St. Germain des Noyers, Seine-et-Marne, Jardin worked seventeen years in Denmark–Norway as an architect to the Danish royal cou…
Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect and academic, designed the Bernstorff Palace and Marienlyst Castle (born 1720)
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s) was a French violinist, conductor, composer and soldier of African descent. Moreover, he demonstrated excellence as a fencer, an athlet…
Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1745)
The Montgolfier brothers – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier – were aviation pioneers, balloonists and paper manufacturers from the commune Annonay in Ardèc…
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (born 1745)
Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier was a French natural scientist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (born 1717)
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great B…
French Revolutionary Wars: Severely outnumbered French forces repulsed an Ottoman attack at the Battle of Mount Tabor in
The War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802) was the second war between revolutionary France and a coalition of European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria and Russia, and includin…
War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeated the French Army of the Danube, capturing the strategically importa
Fort Julien is a fort located on the left or west bank of the Nile about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north-west of Rashid (Rosetta) on the north coast of Egypt. It was originally built b…
French soldiers at Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid, uncovered the Rosetta Stone, which was…
The Pitt–Tierney Duel took place on 27 May 1798 when the prime minister of Great Britain William Pitt the Younger met his political opponent George Tierney in a duel with pistols o…
The Pitt–Tierney duel takes place on Putney Heath outside London
The Battle of Oulart Hill took place on 27 May 1798 when a rebel gathering of between approximately 1,000 annihilated a detachment of 110 militia sent from Wexford town to stamp ou…
The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia
The Battle of New Ross was a military engagement which took place in New Ross, County Wexford during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. It was fought between the Society of United Irishm…
Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated
Kilcummin is a beachhead and civil parish on the northern coast of County Mayo in Ireland. Traditionally a fishing community, the Kilcummin area is sparsely populated. The "Tír Sái…
French troops land at Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid the rebellion.
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great B…
French Revolutionary Wars: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is
Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hu…
Napoleon Bonaparte and his expedition force leave France to invade Egypt