Explore 146 historical events from 1790–1799.
The Battle of Famars was fought on 23 May 1793 during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. An Allied Austrian, Hanoverian, and British army under Prince Josias …
Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition
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: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul
Ferdinand I was Emperor of Austria from March 1835 until his abdication in December 1848. He was also King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia, King of Lombardy–Venetia and holder of …
Ferdinand I of Austria (died 1875)
Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor was an American statesman, jurist, ordained Baptist minister, war veteran, slave owner, and a co-founder and the namesake of Baylor University. Accordi…
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Martin Gerbert, was a German theologian, historian and writer on music, belonged to the noble family of Gerbert von Hornau, and was born at Horb am Neckar, Württemberg, on 12 Augus…
Martin Gerbert, German historian and theologian (born 1720)
Pietro Nardini was an Italian composer and violinist, a transitional musician who worked in both the Baroque and Classical era traditions.
Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer (born 1722)
Charles Bonnet was a Genevan naturalist and philosophical writer. He is responsible for coining the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant. He was among …
Charles Bonnet, Swiss botanist and biologist (born 1720)
Francis II and I was the last Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835. He was also King of Germany, Hung…
France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars
Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes, was a leading member of the colonial Brazilian revolutionary movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira, whose aim was full inde…
Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered
A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers. This type of thief usually travelled and robbed by horse as compared to a footpad who travelled and robbed on foot; mounted hig…
Highwayman Nicolas J
"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. It was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by the First French Republic …
"La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
The Austrian Netherlands were the territory of the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire between 1714 and 1797. The period began with the acquisition by the Austrian Habsburg …
France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars
Captain (Capt.) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy. It ranks above commander and below commodore and has a NATO ranking code of OF-5. The rank is equivalent to a colonel in…
Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain
John Thomas Romney Robinson, usually referred to as Thomas Romney Robinson, was an Irish astronomer. He was the director of the Armagh Observatory, one of the chief astronomical ob…
Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (died 1882)
Pope Pius IX was head of the Catholic Church from 16 June 1846 until his death in February 1878.
Pope Pius IX (died 1878)
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating…
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer (died 1843)
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, also spelled Carl Friedrich Bahrdt, was an unorthodox German Protestant biblical scholar, theologian, and polemicist. Controversial during his day, he is som…
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and author (born 1741)
The New York Stock Exchange is an American stock exchange headquartered at the New York Stock Exchange Building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is…
The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement
In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular, mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano. Dome-building eruptions are common, particularl…
A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsun
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West …
Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age …
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1718)
Charles Simon Favart was a French playwright and theatre director. The Salle Favart in Paris is named after him.
Charles Simon Favart, French playwright and composer (born 1710)
Lucius Levy Solomons was a Jewish Canadian merchant and fur trader.
Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (born 1730)
Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB was a Royal Navy officer, politician and colonial administrator. He is best known for his service in the American War of Indepen…
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Newfoundland (born 1718)