* 1714 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter ( d. 1789 )

* 1789 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician ( d. 1857 )

* 1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, French wife of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden ( d. 1860 )

It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 ; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

In July, the Great Fear of aristocratic reprisal against the ongoing French Revolution struck France, arriving in the Barcelonnette area on 31 July 1789 ( when the news of the storming of the Bastille first reached the town ) before spreading towards Digne.

Clamecy remained the continuous ' in partibus infidelium ' seat of the Bishopric of Bethlehem for almost 600 years, until the French Revolution in 1789.

By the mid-19th century, Bayonne had declined somewhat with the centralisation of power to Paris and to the new département capital, non-Basque Pau, after the 1789 French Revolution, and with Wellington's bombardment.

The declaration of independence by the 13 British colonies of North America, and the victory of the French Revolution of 1789, influenced early Cuban liberation movements, as did the successful revolt of black slaves in Haiti in 1791.

The Corsican language has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs ; earlier by those of the Medieval Italian powers: Tuscany ( 828 – 1077 ), Pisa ( 1077 – 1282 ) and Genoa ( 1282 – 1768 ), more recently by France ( 1768 – present ), which, since 1789, has promulgated the official Parisian French.

The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789, by the National Constituent Assembly ( Assemblée nationale constituante ), during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France.

Category: 1789 events of the French Revolution

In 1789, Jacques-Louis David attempted to leave his artistic mark on the historical beginnings of the French Revolution with his painting of The Oath of the Tennis Court.

1648 ; i. e. after the Thirty Years ' War, in France and the French colonial empire, until established as the national language during the French Revolution of 1789 and subsequently multinational in all nations in or formerly in the various French Empires.

A recent study suggests that a strong El-Niño effect between 1789 – 93 caused poor crop yields in Europe, which in turn helped touch off the French Revolution.

German sociologist Johann Plenge spoke of the rise of a " National Socialism " in Germany within what he termed the " ideas of 1914 " that were a declaration of war against the " ideas of 1789 " ( the French Revolution ).

The French Revolution (; 1789 – 1799 ), was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a major impact on France and throughout the rest of Europe.

The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convocation of the Estates-General in May.

Historians widely regard the Revolution as one of the most important events in human history, and the end of the early modern period, which started around 1500, is traditionally attributed to the onset of the French Revolution in 1789.

The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact ( 1995 ) online edition

Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789 – 1799 ( 2 vol 1984 ), short essays by scholars

* The Origins of the French Revolution, The French Revolution: The Moderate Stage, 1789 – 1792, and The French Revolution: The Radical Stage, 1792 – 1794, three essays from The History Guide: Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History

* 1789 – Ferencz Gyulai Hungarian nobleman ( d. 1868 )

Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry KG, GCB, GCH, PC ( 18 May 1778 – 6 March 1854 ), styled The Honourable Charles Stewart from 1789 until 1813 and The Honourable Sir Charles Stewart from 1813 to 1814 and known as The Lord Stewart from 1814 to 1822, was a British soldier, politician and nobleman.

Other Archer Windsor, 6th Earl of Plymouth ( 2 July 1789 – 20 July 1833 Deptford ) was an English nobleman, the eldest son of the 5th Earl of Plymouth.

His vast and varied interests were by this time fully developed, and during a vacation in 1789, he made a scientific excursion up the Rhine and produced the treatise Mineralogische Beobachtungen über einige Basalte am Rhein ( Brunswick, 1790 ) ( Mineralogic Observations on Several Basalts on the River Rhine ).

He translated several scientific works into English, such as Antoine Lavoisier's Traité Élémentaire de Chimie in 1789.

Under a Spanish royal commission, he undertook a voyage around the world from 1786 to 1788, then, from 1789 to 1794, a scientific expedition ( the Malaspina Expedition ) throughout the Pacific Ocean, exploring and mapping much of the west coast of the Americas from Cape Horn to the Gulf of Alaska, crossing to Guam and the Philippines, and stopping in New Zealand, Australia, and Tonga.

In 1789 he opened his own boxing academy and published the book The Art of Boxing on modern " scientific " style boxing which every subsequent boxer learned from.

Its scientific name of Fregata minor arose because when it was first discovered, it was thought to be a small pelican, and so named Pelecanus minor by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789.

Antoine Lavoisier, in his famed 1789 Traité Élémentaire de Chimie ( Elements of Chemistry ), refers to Bergmann ’ s work and discusses the concept of elective affinities or attractions.

The name is based on the genus Polygonum and was first used by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 in his book, Genera Plantarum.

The person celebrated as the " father of modern chemistry " is Antoine Lavoisier ( 1743 – 1794 ) who developed his law of Conservation of mass in 1789, also called Lavoisier's Law.

In 1789, Antoine Lavoisier securely differentiated chemistry from alchemy by introducing rigor and precision into his laboratory techniques ; allowing him to deduce the conservation of mass and categorize many new chemical elements and compounds.

* 1789: Antoine Lavoisier discovers the law of conservation of mass, the basis for chemistry, and begins modern chemistry

In 1789 Antoine Laurent de Jussieu classified all climbing aroids as Pothos and all terrestrial aroids as either Arum or Dracontium in his book Families des Plantes.

The family was described by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789.

In 1789, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, nephew of Bernard de Jussieu, published that classification scheme.

The family Amaranthaceae was first published in 1789 by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in Genera Plantarum, p. 87 – 88.

He was sent to school in the faubourg St. Antoine, and from its roof witnessed the storming of the Bastille in 1789 – commemorated in his poem, " Le quatorze juillet " ( The 14th of July ).

The family name is attributed to Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's 1789 Genera Plantarum, secundum ordines naturales disposita juxta methodum in Horto Regio Parisiensi exaratam, and is a conserved name, so that even if an earlier name were to be discovered for the family, Iridaceae would remain valid.

The success of this work was hindered by its innovations in the use of terms, which were ridiculed by the defenders of the popular sexual system of Linnaeus ; but it did much to open the way for the establishment, by means principally of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's Genera Plantarum ( 1789 ), of the natural method of the classification of plants.

* Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de ( 1789 ).

* 1789 – Antoine Lavoisier: law of conservation of mass, basis for chemistry, and the beginning of modern chemistry

The first European to describe these plants was Philibert Commerçon, a French botanist accompanying French Navy admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville during his voyage of circumnavigation, and first published for him by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789.

* Antoine François Julien Théodore Denis Ignace de Fontenay ( 1789 – 1815 )

From 1780 until 1789, Louis Antoine and his younger brother, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, were educated by the marquis de Sérent, their gouverneur, in the château de Beauregard, a few miles from Versailles.

Carolus Linnaeus first classified G. sempervirens as Bignonia sempervirens in 1753 ; Antoine Laurent de Jussieu renamed the genus in 1789.

Despite all these advances, the person celebrated as the " father of modern chemistry " is Antoine Lavoisier who developed his law of conservation of mass in 1789, also called Lavoisier's Law.

His grandfather, Antoine Louis Marie, duc de Gramont ( 1755 – 1836 ), had emigrated during the French Revolution, and his father, Antoine Heraclius Genevieve Agenor ( 1789 – 1855 ), duc de Gramont and de Guiche, fought under the British flag in the Peninsular War, became a lieutenant-general in the French army in 1823, and in 1830 accompanied Charles X of France to Scotland.

It was established in 1789 by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu.