Explore 567 historical events from 1790–1799.
Captain George Vancouver was an English Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for leading the Vancouver Expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pac…
Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy claimed the land around Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britai
The Belfast Harp Festival, called by contemporary writers The Belfast Harpers Assembly, 11–14 July 1792, was a three-day musical and patriotic event organised in Belfast, Ireland,…
The Belfast Harp Festival, an early event in the Gaelic revival, began at the Assembly Rooms.
The French Army is the land service branch of the French Armed Forces. The Army is commanded by the Chief of Staff of the French Army (CEMAT), who is subordinate to the Chief of th…
The French Army achieved its first major victory of the War of the First Coalition at the Battle of Valmy.
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: Insurrectionists in Paris stormed the Tuileries Palace (depicted), effectively ending the French…
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: Due to an overwhelming fear that foreign armies would attack Paris and prisoners would revolt,…
Valdivia is a city and commune in southern Chile, administered by the Municipality of Valdivia. The city is named after its founder, Pedro de Valdivia, and is located at the conflu…
Spanish forces departed Valdivia to suppress the indigenous Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
William Robert Broughton was a British naval officer in the late 18th century. As a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, he commanded HMS Chatham as part of the Vancouver Expedition, a vo…
William Robert Broughton, a member of George Vancouver's expedition, observed a peak in the present-day U.S. state of…
The Treaty of Sistova ended the last Austro-Turkish war (1787–91). Brokered by Great Britain, Prussia and the Netherlands, it was signed in Sistova in Bulgaria on 4 August 1791. Th…
The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
John Fitch was an American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur, and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States. The first boat, 45 f…
John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women'…
Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington, is the federal capital city of the United States, and its only federal district.
Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
The Constitution of 3 May 1791, titled the Government Act, was a written constitution for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that was adopted by the Great Sejm that met between 178…
The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commo
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In the United States and United Kingdom, he is best known as one…
The British under Charles Cornwallis defeat a Mysorean army under Tipu Sultan in the battle of Arakere
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: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance
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, disguised as a valet, and the French royal family attempt to flee Paris during the French Revolution
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 and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution
The Papal States, officially the State of the Church, were a conglomeration of territories on the Italian Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the pope from 756 to 1870. Th…
The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
The history of the Jews in France deals with Jews and Jewish communities in France since at least the Early Middle Ages. France was a centre of Jewish learning in the Middle Ages, …
The National Assembly of France votes to award full citizenship to Jews.
The National Constituent Assembly was a constituent assembly in the Kingdom of France formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789 during the first stages of the French Revolut…
France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly.
Treaty of Drottningholm (1791) was a treaty signed between Sweden and Russia on the 19th of October 1791, which aimed to establish a long lasting peace and also acting as an allian…
Treaty of Drottningholm, between Sweden and Russia
Padua is a city and comune (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, 40 kilometres w…
At Padua, the Emperor Leopold II calls on the monarchs of Europe to join him in demanding the king of France Louis…
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…