Explore 312 historical events from 1790–1799.
Richard Mique was a Neoclassical French architect born in Lorraine. He is most remembered for his picturesque hamlet, the hameau de la Reine — not particularly characteristic of hi…
Richard Mique, French architect (born 1728)
Élisabeth of France, also known as Madame Élisabeth, was a French princess. She was the youngest child of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Duchess Maria Josepha of Saxony, and she was…
Élisabeth of France, French princess and youngest sibling of Louis XVI (born 1764)
General James Murray was a British army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Quebec from 1760 to 1768 and governor of Minorca from 1778 to 1782. Born in…
James Murray, Scottish-English general and politician, 20th Governor of the Province of Quebec (born 1721)
Gaspard Augustin René Bernard de Marigny was a French officer and Vendéen general.
Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French general (born 1754)
John Roebuck of Kinneil FRS FRSE was an English industrialist, inventor, mechanical engineer, and physician who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution and who is kno…
John Roebuck, English chemist and businessman (born 1718)
André Marie Chénier was a French poet associated with the events of the French Revolution, during which he was sentenced to death. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of t…
André Chénier, Greek-French poet and author (born 1762)
Jean-Antoine Roucher, was a French poet.
Jean-Antoine Roucher, French poet and author (born 1745)
Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck was a Prussian officer, adventurer, and author.
Friedrich von der Trenck, Prussian adventurer and author (born 1726)
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre f…
Maximilien Robespierre, French politician, (born 1758)
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror, was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Conven…
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French soldier and politician (born 1767)
The War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic. It pitted …
War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it lost to Spain the previous year with its victory in the Seco
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: Maximilien Robespierre established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the Fre
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: A British fleet captured six French ships of the line in a naval battle off Ushant that came
The Battle of Trippstadt was a relatively minor French military action in 1794 during the War of the First Coalition. The clash between the French Republican forces and the armies …
The Battle of Trippstadt between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria began.
Jean-Paul Marat was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes…
French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Pa
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 Act Against Slavery was an anti-slavery law passed on July 9, 1793, in the second legislative session of Upper Canada, the colonial division of British North America that would…
The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery…
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
The Jardin des Plantes, also known as the Jardin des Plantes de Paris when distinguished from other jardins des plantes in other cities, is the main botanical garden in France. Jar…
The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris
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: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safet
The Kingdom of Prussia was a German state that existed from 1701 to 1918. It played a significant role in the unification of Germany in 1871 and was a major constituent of the Germ…
Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
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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Joseph Earl Sheffield was an American railroad magnate and philanthropist.
Joseph Earl Sheffield, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1882)