✦ History

Explore August 29, 1778 – August 29, 1778

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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
American Revolutionary War 1775-04-19 - 1783-09-03
Battle of Rhode Island 1778-08-29 - 1778-08-29

People

Catherine the Great age 49
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 24
King - France
George III age 40
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 37
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 53
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 66
Emperor - Imperial China
Jeongjo of Joseon age 25
King - Joseon
Victor Amadeus III age 52
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Frederick North, Lord North age 46
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Charles III of Spain age 62
King - Spain
Gustav III age 32
King - Sweden
Henry Laurens age 54
President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress
George Washington age 46
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army - United States
Napoleon age 9
Ludwig van Beethoven age 7
Thomas Jefferson age 35
Adam Smith age 55
Benjamin Franklin age 72
Jane Austen age 2
John Adams age 42
James Madison age 27
John Quincy Adams age 11
Andrew Jackson age 11
James Watt age 42
James Monroe age 20
William Henry Harrison age 5
Marie Antoinette age 22
Maximilien Robespierre age 20
Edward Jenner age 29
Alexander I of Russia age 8 months
Horatio Nelson age 19
Alexander Hamilton age 23
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 9
William IV age 13
Klemens von Metternich age 5
Paul I of Russia age 23
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 24
George IV age 16
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 113
Georges Danton age 18
Louis XVIII age 22
José de San Martín age 6 months
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 10
Charles X of France age 20
William Pitt the Younger age 19
Louis Philippe I age 4
Charles XIV John age 15
Aaron Burr age 22
Selim III age 16
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 15
Joachim Murat age 11
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 9
Mikhail Kutuzov age 32
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 31
Joseph Bonaparte age 10
George Canning age 8
Toussaint Louverture age 35
Samuel Adams age 55
Charles IV of Spain age 29
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 25
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 19
Michel Ney age 9
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 5
Elbridge Gerry age 34
George Clinton age 39
Daniel D. Tompkins age 4
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 35
William Wilberforce age 19
John Jay age 32
Charles XIII age 29
Spencer Perceval age 15
Frederick William II of Prussia age 33
John Marshall age 22
Pyotr Bagration age 13
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 14
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 16
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 8
Tecumseh age 10
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 8
Henry Addington age 21
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 6
John Hancock age 41
Henry Clay age 1
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 48
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 40
Jiaqing Emperor age 17
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 41
Benedict Arnold age 37
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 18
Charles Felix age 13
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 7
Edmund Randolph age 25
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 49
John Paul Jones age 31
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 9
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 14
Nathanael Greene age 36
John Rutledge age 38
Henry Knox age 28
John Burgoyne age 56
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 26
Albert Gallatin age 17
Roger B. Taney age 1
Timothy Pickering age 33
Oliver Ellsworth age 33
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 47
William H. Crawford age 6
Thomas Gage age 60
Edward Livingston age 14
Horatio Gates age 51
Levin August von Bennigsen age 33
Lotf Ali Khan age 9
Robert Smith age 20
Henry Clinton age 48
Banastre Tarleton age 24
Samuel Dexter age 17
Anthony Wayne age 33
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 18
James McHenry age 24
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 54
Bernardo de Gálvez age 32
Daniel Morgan age 42
William Wirt age 5
John Breckinridge age 17
Henry Dearborn age 27
James Barbour age 3
George W. Campbell age 9
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 29
William Bradford age 22
John Armstrong Jr. age 19
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 6
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 62
Federico Gravina age 22
Pavel Chichagov age 11
Felix Grundy age 11 months
William Pinkney age 14
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 36
William Eustis age 25
Cuthbert Collingwood age 29
George M. Bibb age 1
Alexander J. Dallas age 19
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 20
Tekle Giyorgis I age 27
Peter Buell Porter age 5
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 12
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 22
Gigar age 33
Charles Philip Yorke age 14
John Graham age 4
John Charles Herries age 0 months
Prince Euneon age 24
Edward Pakenham age 5 months
Richard Ryder age 12
William Sturges Bourne age 8
Marquis de Lafayette age 20
Charles Cornwallis age 39
Edward, Duke of Kent age 10
Charles Lee age 46
Comte de Rochambeau age 53
Comte de Grasse age 55
Bernardo O'Higgins age 0 months
Frederick William III of Prussia age 8
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 11
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers age 25
Charles Emmanuel IV age 27
Victor Emmanuel I age 19
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 11