Explore 567 historical events from 1790–1799.
Eliza Acton was an English food writer and poet who produced one of Britain's first cookery books aimed at the domestic reader, Modern Cookery for Private Families. The book introd…
Eliza Acton, English food writer and poet (died 1859)
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)
James Prinsep was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering t…
James Prinsep, English orientalist and scholar (died 1840)
Count Ferenc Gyulay de Marosnémethi et Nádaska, also known as Ferencz Gyulai, Ferencz Gyulaj, or Franz Gyulai, was a Hungarian nobleman who served as Austrian Governor of Lombardy-…
Ferenc Gyulay, Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (died 1868)
Mills Darden was an American who became famous as one of the largest men ever in human history. His enormous size both in terms of his body weight and height made him one of the bi…
Mills Darden, one of the largest men ever in human history (died 1857)
Margaret Agnes Bunn was a British actress.
Margaret Agnes Bunn, Scottish actress (died 1883)
Ignace Bourget was a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Montreal from 1840 to 1876.
Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (died 1885)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Veerapandiya Kattabomman was an 18th-century Palayakarrar and king of Panchalankurichi in present-day Tamil Nadu, India. He fought the British East India Company and was captured b…
Veerapandiya Kattabomman Indian activist (born 1760)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer and violinist. He was a friend of both Haydn and Mozart. His best-known works include the German singspiel Doktor und Apotheke…
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer (born 1739)
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