Explore 146 historical events from 1790–1799.
Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccin…
Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation
The War of the First Coalition was a set of wars between a coalition of several European powers and France fought between 1792 and 1797. The coalition was only loosely allied and f…
War of the First Coalition: In the Battle of Borghetto, Napoleon Bonaparte manages to cross the Mincio River against the
Horace Mann was an American educational reformer, abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education; he is thus also known as The Father of Am…
Horace Mann, American educator and politician (died 1859)
William Pennington was an American politician and lawyer. He was the 13th governor of New Jersey from 1837 to 1843. He served one term in the United States House of Representatives…
William Pennington, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House
William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Despite having…
William H
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was a French military engineer and physicist. A graduate of the École polytechnique, Carnot served as an officer in the Engineering Arm of the French Ar…
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (died 1832)
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, No…
Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States
The siege of Mantua lasted from 4 June 1796 to 2 February 1797 with a short break where French forces under the overall command of Napoleon Bonaparte besieged and blockaded a large…
The siege of Mantua begins when Napoleon Bonaparte lays siege to the fortress of Mantua the last Austrian stronghold in
Johan Carl Wilcke was a Swedish physicist.
Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (born 1732)
Johann Peter Uz was a German poet.
Johann Uz, German poet and author (born 1720)
Baron Carl Fredrik Pechlin was a Swedish politician and demagogue.
Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish general and politician (born 1720)
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, No…
Tennessee was admitted as the 16th state of the United States
Gérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist.
Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and chronologist (died 1875)
Johns Hopkins was an American merchant, investor, and philanthropist best known for funding the establishment of Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital, which have sin…
Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1873)
Pedro Bernardino María de Anaya y Álvarez was a Mexican soldier who served twice as interim president of Mexico during the Mexican-American War. Inbetween presidencies, he directly…
Pedro María de Anaya, Mexican soldier
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy was a French Catholic clergyman, archaeologist, numismatologist and scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. He deciphered the P…
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French archaeologist and author (born 1716)
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: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed
Sir Charles Barry was an English architect best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for nu…
Charles Barry, English architect, designed the Upper Brook Street Chapel and Halifax Town Hall (died 1860)
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Rogers was a British Army officer and frontiersman. Born in Methuen, Province of Massachusetts Bay, he fought in King George's War, the French and Indian …
Robert Rogers, English colonel (born 1731)
Josiah Bartlett was an American Founding Father, physician, statesman, a delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, and a signatory to the Declaration of Independence …
Josiah Bartlett, American physician and politician, 4th Governor of New Hampshire (born 1729)
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, …
James Boswell, Scottish biographer (born 1740)
Ewald Friedrich Graf von Hertzberg was a Prussian statesman.
Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (born 1725)
Pierre-Joseph Desault was a French anatomist and surgeon.
Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (born 1744)
Sardinians or Sards are an ethnolinguistic group of Italy indigenous to Sardinia, an island in the western Mediterranean which is administratively an autonomous region of Italy.
Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano