Explore 451 historical events from 1790–1799.
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
James Braid was a Scottish surgeon, natural philosopher, and "gentleman scientist". He was a significant innovator in the treatment of clubfoot, spinal curvature, knock-knees, ban…
James Braid, Scottish-English surgeon (died 1860)
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
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: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admir
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.
The Treaty of Greenville, also known to Americans as the Treaty with the Wyandots, etc., but formally titled A treaty of peace between the United States of America, and the tribes …
Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.
Ernst Heinrich Weber was a German physician who is considered one of the founders of experimental psychology.
Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician and psychologist (died 1878)
Giorgio Mitrovich was a Maltese patriot and politician known for his role in the struggle for freedom of the press in Malta. He was one of the founders of the Comitato Generale Mal…
Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician (died 1885)
James Gordon Bennett Sr. was a British-born American businessman who was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of American news…
James Gordon Bennett Sr., American publisher, founded the New York Herald (died 1872)
Frances Wright, widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, utopian socialist, abolitionist, social reformer, and Epicurean philosoph…
Frances Wright, Scottish-American author and activist (died 1852)
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: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it…
The invasion of the Cape Colony, also known as the Battle of Muizenberg, was a British military expedition launched in 1795 against the Dutch Cape Colony at the Cape of Good Hope. …
Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic.
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)
John William Polidori was an English writer and medical doctor. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre…
John William Polidori, English physician and author (died 1821)
James Gates Percival was an American poet, surgeon, and geologist.
James Gates Percival, American poet, surgeon and geologist (died 1856)
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)
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)
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)