✦ History

Explore January 1, 1740 – March 17, 1799

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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Boston Tea Party 1773-12-16
American Revolutionary War 1775-04-19 - 1783-09-03
Siege of Boston 1775-04-19 - 1776-03-17
Battles of Lexington and Concord 1775-04-19
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga 1775-05-10 - 1775-05-10
Battle of Bunker Hill 1775-06-17
Battle of Quebec (1775) 1775-12-31 - 1775-12-31
Battle of Sullivan's Island 1776-06-28 - 1776-06-28
Declaration of Independence 1776-07-04
Battle of Long Island 1776-08-26
Battle of Valcour Island 1776-10-11 - 1776-10-13
Battle of White Plains 1776-10-28 - 1776-10-28
Battle of Fort Washington 1776-11-16 - 1776-11-16
Battle of Trenton 1776-12-26
Battle of Princeton 1777-01-03
Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777) 1777-07-02 - 1777-07-06
Battle of Bennington 1777-08-16 - 1777-08-16
Battle of Brandywine 1777-09-11
Battle of Saratoga 1777-09-19 - 1777-10-17
Battle of Germantown 1777-10-04
Treaty of Alliance 1778-02-06
Battle of Monmouth 1778-06-28
Battle of Rhode Island 1778-08-29 - 1778-08-29
Battle of Stony Point 1779-07-16 - 1779-07-16
Penobscot Expedition 1779-07-24 - 1779-08-14
Siege of Savannah 1779-09-16 - 1779-10-18
Battle of Flamborough Head 1779-09-23 - 1779-09-23
Siege of Charleston 1780-03-29 - 1780-05-12
Battle of Waxhaws 1780-05-29 - 1780-05-29
Battle of Springfield 1780-06-23
Battle of Camden 1780-08-16 - 1780-08-16
Battle of Kings Mountain 1780-10-07
Battle of Cowpens 1781-01-17 - 1781-01-17
Articles of Confederation 1781-03-01
Siege of Pensacola 1781-03-09 - 1781-05-10
Battle of Guilford Courthouse 1781-03-15
Battle of the Chesapeake 1781-09-05 - 1781-09-05
Battle of Eutaw Springs 1781-09-08 - 1781-09-08
Siege of Yorktown 1781-09-28 - 1781-10-19
Battle of the Saintes 1782-04-09 - 1782-04-12
Treaty of Paris 1783-09-03
First inauguration of George Washington 1789-04-30
French Revolution 1789-05-05 - 1799-11-09
Storming of the Bastille 1789-07-14
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 1789-08-26
Haitian Revolution 1791-08-21 - 1804-01-01
United States Bill of Rights 1791-12-15
French Revolutionary Wars 1792-04-20 - 1802-03-25
Battle of Valmy 1792-09-20 - 1792-09-20
Battle of Jemappes 1792-11-06 - 1792-11-06
Execution of Louis XVI 1793-01-21
Battle of Neerwinden (1793) 1793-03-18 - 1793-03-18
Siege of Toulon (1793) 1793-08-29 - 1793-12-19
Reign of Terror 1793-09-05 - 1794-07-28
Battle of Hondschoote 1793-09-08 - 1793-09-08
Battle of Wattignies 1793-10-16 - 1793-10-16
Glorious First of June 1794-06-01 - 1794-06-01
Battle of Fleurus (1794) 1794-06-26 - 1794-06-26
Italian campaign of 1796–1797 1796-04-10 - 1797-10-17
Battle of Montenotte 1796-04-12 - 1796-04-12
Battle of Lodi 1796-05-10 - 1796-05-10
Smallpox vaccine 1796-05-14
Siege of Mantua (1796–1797) 1796-07-04 - 1797-02-02
Battle of Amberg 1796-08-24 - 1796-08-24
Battle of Würzburg 1796-09-03 - 1796-09-03
Battle of Biberach (1796) 1796-10-02 - 1796-10-02
Battle of Emmendingen 1796-10-19 - 1796-10-19
Battle of Arcole 1796-11-15 - 1796-11-17
Battle of Rivoli 1797-01-14 - 1797-01-15
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) 1797-02-14 - 1797-02-14
Battle of Camperdown 1797-10-11 - 1797-10-11
French campaign in Egypt and Syria 1798-07-01 - 1801-09-02
Battle of the Pyramids 1798-07-21 - 1798-07-21
Battle of the Nile 1798-08-01 - 1798-08-03

People

Pavel Chichagov born 1767-07-08
Felix Grundy born 1777-09-11
William J. Duane born 1780-05-09
William Pinkney born 1764-03-17
Joseph Warren born 1741-06-11
Robert F. Stockton born 1795-08-20
Oliver Wolcott age 13
Francis Lewis age 26
John Witherspoon age 16
Carter Braxton age 3
Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth age 28
Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758–1822) born 1758-11-21
Elizabeth, Princess Berkeley born 1750-12-17
Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria born 1772-08-14
Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este born 1782-07-14
Jacob de Kempenaer born 1793-07-06
Joel Roberts Poinsett born 1779-03-02
Cuthbert Collingwood born 1748-09-26
Edward Bates born 1793-09-04
George M. Bibb born 1776-10-30
Pierre Antoine Dupont born 1765-07-04
William Prescott age 13
Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegarde born 1756-08-29
Jacques-François Menou born 1750-09-03
Koca Ragıp Pasha age 42
Philip Osipovich Paulucci born 1779-09-11
Jacques Lauriston born 1768-02-01
Isaac Shelby born 1750-12-11
John Morton age 15
Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 2
Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach age 3
Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld age 4
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1794–1863) born 1794-10-30
Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen born 1769-07-06
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (born 1737) age 2
Archduke Anton Victor of Austria born 1779-08-31
Archduke Karl Ambrosius of Austria-Este born 1785-11-02
Adam Albert von Neipperg born 1775-04-08
Pedro Blanco Soto born 1795-10-19
José María Pérez de Urdininea born 1784-10-31
José Tomás Ovalle born 1787-12-21
Floris Adriaan van Hall born 1791-05-15
Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine born 1787-01-06
Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela born 1781-05-08
Juan Francisco Giró born 1791-06-03
Caleb Strong born 1745-01-09
Reşid Mehmed Pasha born 1780-01-01
Alexander J. Dallas born 1759-06-21
John M. Berrien born 1781-08-23
Samuel D. Ingham born 1779-09-16
Walter Forward born 1786-01-24
Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten born 1770-03-05
Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer born 1747-12-18
Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken born 1752-10-31
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy born 1770-02-10
Charles Napier born 1786-03-06
William Whipple age 9
Richard Stockton age 9
William Hooper born 1742-06-28
Princess Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt born 1745-10-10
Princess Anna Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 1
Princess Louise of Prussia (1770–1836) born 1770-05-24
Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth age 7
Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg born 1792-01-24
Princess Louise of Orange-Nassau born 1770-11-28
Princess Maria Antonia of Parma born 1774-11-28
Francisco Ramón Vicuña born 1775-09-09
Mariano Enrique Calvo born 1782-07-18
Camilo Torres Tenorio born 1766-11-22
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha born 1790-11-17
Manuel Basilio Bustamante born 1785-06-20
Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha born 1769-01-01
James Guthrie born 1792-12-05
John Nelson born 1791-06-01
Pierre-Augustin Hulin born 1758-09-06
Gabriel Valencia born 1799-01-01
Stephen W. Kearny born 1794-08-30
Hoşyar Kadın born 1796-01-01
Yakov Kulnev born 1763-08-06
Carl Philipp von Wrede born 1767-04-29
Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf born 1762-04-09
Queen Sunwon born 1789-06-08
Matthew Thornton age 26
James Smith age 20
Joseph Hewes age 9
Duke Ferdinand Frederick Augustus of Württemberg born 1763-10-21
Julie von Voss born 1766-07-24
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1770) born 1770-04-21
Sebastián Ágreda born 1795-01-01
Jean-Jacques Willmar born 1792-03-06
José María Plá born 1794-10-15
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg born 1778-10-26
Mahlon Dickerson born 1770-04-17
Edwin V. Sumner born 1797-01-30
Johann Rall
Yohannes III born 1797-01-01
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer born 1782-05-30
Isaac Toucey born 1792-11-15
Bertrand Clausel born 1772-12-12
Gregorio García de la Cuesta born 1741-05-09
Mariano Osorio born 1777-01-01
Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland born 1742-08-14
John Stark age 11
William Hull born 1753-06-24
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt age 6
Magnus Gustav von Essen born 1759-09-30
Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien born 1760-09-15
Johann von Thielmann born 1765-04-27
Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons born 1790-11-21
Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein born 1797-01-05
Queen Jeongsun born 1745-12-02
Thomas Stone born 1743-01-01
Thomas Heyward Jr. born 1746-07-28
Thomas Lynch Jr. born 1749-08-05
Empress Xiaoxianchun age 27
Prince Henry of Prussia (1747–1767) born 1747-12-30
Friedrich von der Trenck age 13
Charles William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach age 27
Prince Henry of Prussia (1781–1846) born 1781-12-30
Sophie von Dönhoff born 1768-10-17
Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria (born 1740) born 1740-01-12
Anson Jones born 1798-01-20
Domingo Matheu born 1765-08-04
Francisco Ferrera born 1794-01-29
Apostol Arsache born 1789-01-01
George N. Briggs born 1796-04-12
Christopher Gore born 1758-09-21
Edward Tiffin born 1766-06-19
Wilson Cary Nicholas born 1761-01-31
John Tayler born 1742-07-04
John Sevier born 1745-09-23
Henry Hunt (politician) born 1773-11-06
Mehmed Emin Rauf Pasha born 1780-01-01
Peter Buell Porter born 1773-08-14
George W. Crawford born 1798-12-22
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby born 1797-05-15
Hugh S. Legaré born 1797-01-02
Reverdy Johnson born 1796-05-21
Josef Philipp Vukassovich born 1755-01-01
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie born 1770-10-23
Johann von Hiller born 1754-10-13
Francisco Javier Venegas born 1754-12-02
Félix María Calleja del Rey, 1st Count of Calderón born 1753-11-01
George Madison born 1763-06-01
Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia born 1792-07-11
Joanna Grudzińska born 1795-05-28
Hatice Sultan (daughter of Mustafa III) born 1768-06-14
Esma Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid I) born 1778-07-17
Jean Nicolas Houchard age 11 months
Jean François Carteaux born 1751-01-31
Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov born 1753-08-24
Hyde Parker age 1
Fabian Steinheil born 1762-10-14
Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky born 1794-07-14
Jakob von Hartmann born 1795-02-04
Queen Inwon age 52
Lady Hyegyŏng age 4
John Penn born 1741-05-17
Arthur Middleton born 1742-06-26
John Hanson age 18
Prince Augustus of Prussia born 1779-09-19
Princess Maria Carlotta of Parma born 1777-09-01
Ádám Récsey born 1775-02-10
Littleton Waller Tazewell born 1774-12-17
John Floyd born 1783-04-24
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland born 1773-11-21
Levi Lincoln Jr. born 1782-10-25
Return J. Meigs Jr. born 1764-11-17
Thomas Holliday Hicks born 1798-09-02
Marcus Morton born 1784-12-19
John Francis Mercer born 1759-05-17
Aaron Ogden born 1756-12-03
George Tyler Wood born 1795-03-12
Jeremiah Morrow born 1771-10-06
Ethan Allen Brown born 1776-07-04
Samuel L. Southard born 1787-06-09
John Milledge born 1757-01-01
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton born 1798-08-15
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough born 1781-08-31
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet born 1792-06-01
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley born 1766-04-29
Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan de la Peyrière born 1765-10-29
Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet born 1757-12-06
Wilhelm von Knyphausen age 23
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet born 1772-04-22
Pío de Tristán born 1773-07-11
Esma Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III) age 13
Saliha Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III) age 24
Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III) age 24
Hibetullah Sultan born 1789-03-16
Küçük Hüseyin Pasha born 1757-01-01
Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse born 1750-05-29
Dmitry Dokhturov born 1756-09-12
Zahar Dimitrijevič Olsufjev born 1772-03-24
Vasili Bebutov born 1791-01-01
William Williams age 8
John Hart age 29
George Taylor age 24
George Ross age 9
Francis Lightfoot Lee age 5