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1793
America's first circus started by John Bill Rickets
Louis XVI of France executed
Thousands died in yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia
Nikolai Lobachevsky (Russian mathematician, pioneers of non-Euclidean geometry) born
Felicia Hemans born (you know - "The boy stood on the burning deck...")
Lord Macartney reached court of China - to be told that China had no need of anything that the West could offer.
1792 - August 4
British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is born
1791
January 25 - The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
March 2 - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
March 4 - Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
May 3 - The Polish Sejm (Parliament) proclaims the Constitution of third May, the first modern codified constitution in Europe.
July 14 - The Priestley Riots in Birmingham, England.
June 20 - The French Royal Family is captured when they try to flee in disguise.
August 6 - Brandenburg Gate in Berlin finished.
August 26 - John Fitch is granted a patent for the steamboat in the United States.
September 25 - The Mission Santa Cruz, is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the twelfth mission in the California mission chain.
September 30 - Première of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's singspiel Die Zauberflöte in the Freihaustheater auf der Wieden in Vienna.
October 9 - The Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, was founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the thirteenth mission in the California mission chain.
December 4 - The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
December 5 - Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies.
December 15 - Ratification by the states of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution is completed, creating the United States Bill of Rights. Two additional amendments remain pending, and one of these is finally ratified in 1992, becoming the Twenty-seventh Amendment
1790
January 8 - George Washington gives the first State of the Union Address.
July 9 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
July 14 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
1789
January 7 - First nationwide United States election
January 21 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts
February 4 - George Washington is unanimously elected the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
March 4 - At Federal Hall in New York City, the first U.S. Congress meets and declares the new Constitution of the United States to be in effect.
April 1 - At Federal Hall in New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.
April 28 - Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against Captain William Bligh
April 30 - George Washington is inaugurated at Federal Hall in New York City, beginning his term as the 1st President of the United States
June 14 - HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat
June 17 - In France, representatives of the Third Estate at the Estates-General declare themselves the National Assembly.
June 20 - Tennis Court Oath in Paris
July 9 - In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
July 11 - King of France fires popular chief minister Necker
July 12 - Angry Parisian crowd demonstrates against King’s decision to dismiss minister Necker
July 14 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners. In rural areas, peasants attack noble manors.
July 27 - The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the Department of State), is established.
August 4 - In France members of the Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges
August 7 - The United States War Department is established
August 26 - Declaration of the Rights of Man in France
August 28 - William Herschel discovers Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.
September 2 - United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
September 11 - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792: Alexander Suvorov roundly defeats the 100,000 Turks in the Battle of Rymnik.
September 24 - The Judiciary Act of 1789 establishes the federal judiciary.
September 25 - The United States Congress proposes a set of twelve amendments for ratification by the states. Ratification for ten of these proposals is completed on December 5, 1791, creating the United States Bill of Rights. An additional proposal is ratified more than two centuries later in 1992.
September 29 - The United States War Department first establishes the nation's first regular army, with a strength of several hundred men.
November 6 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll (priest) the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
November 20 - New Jersey ratifies the United States Bill of Rights, the first state to do so.
November 21 - North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 12th U.S. state.
November 26 - A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
1788 - February 1
Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat
1787--- The society for the abolition of the Slave trade is founded.
1786
August 8 - Mont Blanc was climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat.
August 11 - Captain Francis Light, known as the founder of Penang, landed in Penang and renamed it Prince of Wales Island in honour of the heir to the British throne.
1785 ----- 1+7=8 and there are 3 numbers before the last number so 8-3=5
1785
1784 - Bifocal specs are invented! :D
Night, where is the historic significance of 1785?
1783 well excuse me I didnt realsise that was a must!
fine 1783 Great briatian formally ceases hostilies with the new USA
1782
Royal George sinks off Portsmouth, Aug 29, commemorated by Cowper's poem "Toll for the Brave."
See Nightshade, historical and literary:lol:
1781
January 5 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
January 17 - American Revolutionary War: Americans under Daniel Morgan defeat British forces at the Battle of Cowpens.
January 30 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland.
January - William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister, enters Parliament.
March 1 - American Continental Congress implements the Articles of Confederation.
March 13 - Sir William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus. Originally he calls it Georgium Sidus (George's Star) in honour of King George III of England. (Hummm. Was it a slur to call it Uranus?)
March 15 - American Revolutionary War: American General Nathanael Greene loses Battle of Guilford Court House to British.
July 27 - French spy Francis Henry de la Motte executed in Tyburn prison in England for high treason
August 30 - American Revolutionary War: French fleet under Comte de Grasse enters Chesapeake Bay, cutting British General Charles Cornwallis off from escape by sea.
September 4 - Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Ángeles de Porciuncula (City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula) by a group of 44 Spanish settlers.
September 5 - British fleet under Thomas Graves arrives and fights de Grasse, but to no effect.
September 6 - The British army attacks a fort in Groton, Connecticut which became known as the Battle of Groton Heights.
September 10 - Graves gives up trying to break through the now-reinforced French fleet and returns to New York, leaving Cornwallis to his fate.
October 19 - Following the Siege of Yorktown, General Charles Cornwallis surrenders to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the armed struggle of the American Revolutionary War.
October 20 - Patent of Tolerance, providing limited freedom of worship, was approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
November 5 - John Hanson is elected President of the Continental Congress. (And you thought George Washington was the first elected President in the USA...)
November 29 - The slave ship Zong dumps its living cargo into the sea in order to claim insurance.
November 29 - Henry Hurle officially founds the Ancient Order of Druids(AOD) in London, England.
December 12 - French and British fleets fight in the Second Battle of Ushant.
1780 - September 25
Benedict Arnold flees to British-held New York
1779
January 22 - American Revolutionary War: Claudius Smith is hanged at Goshen, Orange County, New York for supposed acts of terrorism upon the people of the surrounding communities.
February 14: Captain James Cook dies on the Sandwich Islands on his third and last voyage.
December 6 - Death of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
Unknown date - The Iron Bridge is completed across the River Severn in Shropshire; the first all cast-iron bridge ever constructed.