Events in History
- Jan 11 U.S. Marshal Robert Forsyth is killed in Augusta, Georgia, trying to serve court papers, first US marshal to die carrying out his duties
- Jan 13 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes
- Jan 14 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom, Virginia, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation in the US on his wife
Event of Interest
Feb 4 French National Convention proclaims abolition of slavery

Georges Danton
- Feb 11 1st session of US Senate open to the public
- Feb 14 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia
- Feb 26 Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down
- Feb 28 US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
- Mar 3 Richard Allen founded African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Mar 12 Theatre Royal in London's Dury Lane opens after being rebuilt
Historic Invention
Mar 14 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states

Eli Whitney
Event of Interest
Mar 23 Lt-general Tadeusz Kościuszko returns to Poland

Tadeusz Kościuszko
- Mar 27 The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
- Mar 27 Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact
- Mar 28 Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
- Mar 28 Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau
- Apr 4 Battle of Racławice, part of the Polish-Lithuanian uprising led by Tadeusz Kościuszko with a tactical Polish victory
Event of Interest
Apr 7 English chemist and theologian Joseph Priestley departs England for America on board Sansom at Gravesend

Joseph Priestley
Event of Interest
May 6 Haiti, under Toussaint Louverture, revolts against France

Toussaint Louverture
- May 7 Influential Gothic romance "The Mysteries of Udolpho" is published by Ann Ratcliffe in London
- May 17 Hard frost in southern New England
- May 18 Second Battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)
- Jun 1 Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win.
- Jun 5 US Congress passes the Neutrality Act, banning Americans from serving in foreign armed forces
- Jun 10 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia forms
- Jun 10 France revolutionary regime begins trials
- Jun 16 1st stone laid at biggest Dutch grain windmill De Walvisch in Schiedam
New Settlement
Jun 23 Russian Empress Catherine II (Catherine the Great) grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev

Catherine the Great
Battle of Fleurus
Jun 26 Battle of Fleurus: major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) first use of reconnaissance balloon
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Coup d'état
Jul 27 Maximilien Robespierre is overthrown in a coup in Paris

Maximilien Robespierre
- Jul 28 French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of "the Terror" guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris
- Jul 29 African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
- Jul 31 All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem
- Aug 1 Whiskey Rebellion begins in western Pennsylvania
- Aug 8 Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska
- Aug 16 Hungarian revolutionary Ignác Martinovics arrested in Vienna
Victory in Battle
Aug 20 Battle of Fallen Timbers: Major General "Mad Anthony" Wayne defeats a joint British-Native American force at Fallen Timbers, Ohio in the final battle of the Northwest Indian War

Anthony Wayne
- Aug 26 French troops occupy Lock
Event of Interest
Sep 21 French National Convention orders the remains of Comte de Mirabeau be removed from the Panthéon after his double-dealings with court revealed

Comte de Mirabeau
Event of Interest
Sep 21 Jean-Paul Marat's remains are transferred to the Panthéon in Paris, with the eulogy given by the Marquis de Sade

Jean-Paul Marat

Marquis de Sade
Event of Interest
Oct 31 John Dalton's first lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society

John Dalton
- Nov 3 French troops conquer Maastricht
- Nov 7 French troops conquer Nijmegen
- Nov 9 Russian troops occupy Warsaw
- Nov 19 Jakobin Club forms in Paris
- Nov 19 Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
- Nov 21 Honolulu Harbor discovered
- Nov 22 Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision and wearing of beards
- Dec 8 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
- Dec 15 Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
- Dec 30 French troops conquer Grave Neth
Birthdays in History
Santa Anna
Feb 21 Antonio López de Santa Anna, President of Mexico who dominated Mexican history in the first half of the 19th century, born in Xalapa, Veracruz (d. 1876)

Santa Anna
- Feb 25 Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam
- Mar 5 Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer
- Mar 5 Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
- Mar 16 Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
- Mar 26 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and designer who figured importantly in the German Nazarene movement, born in Leipzig, Saxony (d. 1872)
- Mar 31 Thompson McKennan, American politician who served as the 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1852)
Matthew C. Perry
Apr 10 Matthew C. Perry, Commodore of the United States Navy who opened Japan to Western influence and trade, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1858)

Matthew C. Perry
- Apr 11 Edward Everett, American statesman and orator, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts (d. 1865)
- Apr 12 Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (geometry), born in Paris (d. 1847)
- Apr 15 Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist, born in Maureilhan, France (d. 1867)
- Apr 17 Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer, born in Erlangen, Germany (d. 1868)
- Apr 23 Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar and geographer of Qing Dynasty, born in Shaoyang, China (d. 1857)
- May 13 Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
- May 17 Anna Brownell Jameson, Anglo-Irish historian and writer (Loves of the Poets), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1860)
- May 24 William Whewell, English polymath and philosopher (History of Inductive Science), born in Lancaster, Lancashire, England (d. 1866)
- May 27 Cornelius Vanderbilt, American shipping and railroad magnate (New York Central Railroad), born in Port Richmond, New York (d. 1877)
- May 29 Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (published the most complete map of the Moon of the time, Mappa Selenographica, 4 vol. with Wilhelm Beer), born in Berlin (d. 1874)
- Jun 28 Allen Frances Gardiner, British naval officer and missionary in inter alia Port Natal, born in Basildon, Berkshire, England (d. 1851)
- Jul 3 Eberhard Friedrich Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt), born in Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1872)
- Jul 5 Sylvester Graham, Minister and noted vegetarian (developed Graham cracker), born in Suffield, Connecticut (d. 1851)
- Jul 14 John Gibson Lockhart [Scorpion], Scottish biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott), born in Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1854)
- Jul 24 Heinrich Christian Pander, Baltic German biologist and embryologist, born in Riga, Latvia (d. 1865)
- Jul 26 Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist, born in Husum, Denmark (d. 1865)
- Aug 10 Leopold Zunz, German Jewish scholar (Science of Judaism), born in Detmold (d. 1886)
- Aug 11 James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
- Aug 15 Elias M. Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum), born in Femsjö, Sweden (d. 1878)
- Aug 17 Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)
- Aug 28 Johannes Zwijsen, Dutch archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands), born in Kerkdriel, Netherlands (d. 1877)
- Sep 9 William Lonsdale, English geologist and paleontologist (fossil coral), born in Bath, Somerset, England (d. 1871)
- Oct 10 William Whiting Boardman, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut), born in New Milford, Connecticut (d. 1871)
- Oct 24 Friedrich Balduin von Gagern, German-Dutch army commandant, born in Weilburg, Germany (d. 1848)
- Oct 26 Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (Grand Kremlin Palace), born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1881)
- Nov 3 William Cullen Bryant, American poet (Thanatopsis), born in Cummington, Massachusetts (d. 1878)
- Nov 17 George Grote, British historian (History of Greece), born in Clay Hill, England (d. 1871)
- Nov 17 John Barrien Montgomery, Commander (Union Navy), (d. 1873)
- Nov 23 Joan F Van Oordt, vicar (Groninger direction)
- Dec 10 James Wolfe Ripley, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Windham County, Connecticut (d. 1870)
- Dec 14 Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (Mayor of Albany, New York), born in Norwich, Connecticut (d. 1872)
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Sep 15 4th US President James Madison (43) weds Dolley Madison (26) in Jefferson County, West Virginia

James Madison
Wedding of Interest
Sep 22 Physicist Alessandro Volta (49) weds Teresa Peregrini

Alessandro Volta
Wedding of Interest
Nov 18 2nd Earl Grey Charles Grey (30) weds only daughter of 1st Baron Ponsonby Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby

Charles Grey
Deaths in History
Edward Gibbon
Jan 16 Edward Gibbon, English historian (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), dies in London at 56

Edward Gibbon
Marquis de Condorcet
Mar 28 Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French enlightenment philosopher (Condorcet Method) and mathematician, is murdered or commits suicide in prison at 50

Marquis de Condorcet
- Mar 29 Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50
Georges Danton
Apr 5 Georges Danton, French politician and revolutionary (1st president of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution), executed by guillotine at 34

Georges Danton
- Apr 8 Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas-Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher, dies in prison during the French Revolution at 50
- Apr 13 Nicolas Chamfort, French writer, dies at 53
- Apr 18 Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, dies at 80
- Apr 23 Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French lawyer and statesman, executed at 72
- Apr 27 William Jones, British orientalist & jurist, dies at 47
- May 8 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry (identified oxygen and hydrogen), guillotined at 50
- May 10 Élisabeth of France, princess of France, youngest sister of king Louis XVI, beheaded at 30
- Jun 8 G A Borger, writer, dies
- Jun 14 Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland, dies at 75
- Jun 18 James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
- Jun 19 Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 62
- Jun 20 Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (discover the theory of homology in biology), dies at 46
- Jun 27 Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
- Jun 27 Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
- Jul 17 John Roebuck, English inventor and industrialist (b. 1718)
- Jul 25 André Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), executed by guillotine during French Revolution at 31
- Jul 28 Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39
Maximilien Robespierre
Jul 28 Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (President of the National Convention, Member of Committee of Public Safety), executed by guillotine at 36

Maximilien Robespierre
- Aug 6 Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
- Aug 14 George Colman the Elder, English playwright, dies at 62
- Sep 4 John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
- Sep 15 Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
- Sep 25 Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
- Oct 20 James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64
- Nov 3 François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman, dies at 79
- Nov 14 Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch scientist and mathematician (known as "Dutch Isaac Newton"), dies at 30
John Witherspoon
Nov 15 John Witherspoon, president of the College of New Jersey, dies at 71

John Witherspoon
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Nov 28 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian-American military officer (major general of the Continental Army), dies at 64

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben