Explore 451 historical events from 1790–1799.
Daniel Drew was an American businessman, steamship and railroad developer, and financier, one of the "robber barons" of the Gilded Age. Summarizing his life, Henry Clews wrote: "Of…
Daniel Drew, American businessman and financier (died 1879)
Friedrich August Kummer, born in Meiningen, the Holy Roman Empire, was a cellist, pedagogue, and composer.
Friedrich August Kummer, German cellist and composer (died 1879)
Charles Robert Malden was a nineteenth-century British naval officer, surveyor and educator. He is the discoverer of Malden Island in the central Pacific, which is named in his hon…
Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and surveyor (died 1855)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science ficti…
Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (died 1851)
Stephen Geary was a British architect, inventor, entrepreneur, and, from 1850, Temperance activist.
Stephen Geary, English architect, inventor and entrepreneur (died 1854)
Samuel Joseph May was an American reformer during the nineteenth century who championed education, women's rights, and the abolition of slavery. May argued on behalf of all working…
Samuel Joseph May, American activist (died 1871)
Innocent of Alaska, also known as Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow, was a Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and fina…
Saint Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the…
Ramón Castilla y Marquesado was a Peruvian caudillo who served twice as President of Peru, first in 1845–1851, and then in 1855–1862. He also led a Military junta in 1844, and was …
Ramón Castilla, Peruvian military leader and politician, President of Peru (died 1867)
Heinrich Kuhl was a German naturalist and zoologist.
Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist and zoologist (died 1821)
Michel-Jean Sedaine was a French dramatist and librettist, especially noted for his librettos for opéras comiques, in which he took an important and influential role in the advance…
Michel-Jean Sedaine, French playwright and composer (born 1719)
Field Marshal John Griffin Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, KB, was a British Army officer, politician and peer. He served as a junior officer with the Pragmatic Army in the Du…
John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (born 1719)
François-Noël Babeuf, also known as Gracchus Babeuf, was a French proto-communist, revolutionary, and journalist of the French Revolutionary period. His newspaper Le Tribun du Peup…
François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist (born 1760)
Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, also known by his regnal name of Agha Mohammad Shah, was the founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran, ruling as Shah from 1789 to 1797.
Mohammad Khan Qajar, Persian tribal chief (born 1742)
Ienăchiță Văcărescu was a Wallachian Romanian poet, historian, philologist, and boyar belonging to the Văcărescu family. A polyglot, he was able to speak Ancient and Modern Greek, …
Ienăchiță Văcărescu, Romanian historian and philologist (born 1740)
Emanuel Granberg (1754–1797) was a Finnish painter.
Emanuel Granberg, Finnish church painter (born 1754)
Dagobert Sigmund, Count von Wurmser was an Austrian field marshal during the French Revolutionary Wars. Although he fought in the Seven Years' War, the War of the Bavarian Successi…
Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (born 1724)
Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism. Regarded as one …
Edmund Burke, Irish-English philosopher, academic, and politician (born 1729)
Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces. He is credited as the architect of Britain's successful campaign t…
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1717)
Thomas Chittenden was an American politician from Vermont, who was a leader of the territory for nearly two decades. He was the state's first and third governor, serving from 1778 …
Thomas Chittenden, Governor of the Vermont Republic, and first Governor of the State of Vermont (born 1730)
Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed …
Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (born 1759)
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: British forces commanded by Lieutenant-General Ralph Abercromby invaded the Spanish colonial
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: Napoleon signed the Armistice of Bologna, agreeing a ceasefire between France and the Papal
The Treaty of Paris of 15 May 1796 was a treaty between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia during the War of the First Coalition.
The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French te
The Grenelle camp affair was an event of the French Revolution which occurred under the Directory, on the night of 9 to 10 September 1796.
Grenelle camp affair, a failed uprising by supporters of Gracchus Babeuf against the French Directory