Explore 312 historical events from 1790–1799.
James Swan was an early American patriot and financier based in Boston in the 18th and 19th centuries. He was a member of the Sons of Liberty and participated in the Boston Tea Par…
Financier James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt that had been accrued during the American Revolution.
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)
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)
Louis XVII was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette. His older brother, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, died in June 1789, a little over a month …
Louis XVII of France (born 1785)
Johannes Jährig was a German Mongolist and translator of Tibetan and Mongolian texts.
Johannes Jährig, German linguist and translator (born 1747)
Louis-Georges-Oudard-Feudrix de Bréquigny, was a French scholar. He was born in Granville in Normandy.
Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French scholar and author (born 1714)
Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Guiral was a Spanish Navy officer. He spent much of his career in the Americas, where he carried out important scientific work that earned him a repu…
Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general, astronomer, and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Louisiana (born 1716)
Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway was a British Army officer and politician. A brother of the 1st Marquess of Hertford, and cousin of Horace Walpole, he began his military career …
Henry Seymour Conway, English general and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1721)
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: Off the coast of Brittany, a Royal Navy squadron commanded by William Cornwallis (pictured) f
The Battle of Beaumont-en-Cambrésis 26 April 1794 was an action forming part of a multi-pronged attempt to relieve the besieged fortress of Landrecies, during the Flanders Campaign…
Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition
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
The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom, also known officially as the Kingdom of Corsica, was a client state of the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed on the island of Corsica from 1794 to 1…
Foundation of Anglo-Corsican Kingdom
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens. His most i…
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer (died 1868)
William Debenham was the founder of Debenhams, once one of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom.
William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams (died 1863)
Louis Léopold Robert was a Swiss painter.
Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (died 1835)
Isaac Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer. He was based initially in London and later in Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendels…
Ignaz Moscheles, Czech pianist and composer (died 1870)
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: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state reli
The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in res…
Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Fe
The Battle of Tourcoing saw a Republican French army directed by General of Division Joseph Souham defend against an attack by a Coalition army led by Emperor Francis II and Austri…
Battle of Tourcoing during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition
The Glorious First of June, also known as the Third Battle of Ushant and the Fourth Battle of Ushant, was fought on 1 June 1794 between the British and French navies during the War…
The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the Fre
The Haitian Revolution, also known as the Haitian War of Independence, was a successful insurrection by enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the so…
Haitian Revolution: Battle of Port-Républicain: British troops capture the capital of Saint-Domingue