- Jan 16 French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht, Netherlands
- Jan 18 French forces admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
- Jan 18 Governor and Viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England
- Jan 19 Democratic revolution in Amsterdam results in establishment of shot-lived Batavian Republic
Dutch Fleet Captured
Jan 23 War of the First Coalition: French cavalry captures 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns near the port of Den Helder - rare instance of cavalry capturing a fleet
Haydn's 102nd Symphony
Feb 2 Joseph Haydn's 102nd Symphony in B premieres at the King's Theatre in London, England
- Feb 5 Zealand, Netherlands, surrenders to French general Michaud
- Feb 7 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
- Feb 7 Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
- Feb 13 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina
- Feb 17 Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden in Chester, England
- Feb 21 Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
- Feb 25 French Politician and Educator Joseph Lakanal, defines on behalf of the French Revolution an “educational utopia” aiming to “put an end to inequalities of development that affected a citizen's capacities for judgment."
- Mar 5 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution
- Mar 5 Treaty of Basel - Prussia ends war with France
- Mar 11 Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
- Mar 28 Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
Beethoven's Debut
Mar 29 Ludwig van Beethoven (24) has his debut performance as a pianist at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria
France Adopts the Metre
Apr 7 France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length
- Apr 23 William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
Battle of Nuʻuanu
May 1 Kamehameha I, King of Hawaiʻi defeats Kalanikupule and conquers island of Oʻahu at Battle of Nuʻuanu [approx. date]
- May 5 Great Britain passes a tax on hair powder - a fee of 1 guinea a year, leading to a decline in its use
- May 16 Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassal state
- Jun 6 Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured
- Jun 24 US and Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
- Jul 1 John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of US Supreme Court
- Jul 9 James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt
- Jul 14 The French National Convention decrees "La Marseillaise" by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle France's national anthem
- Jul 25 The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid
- Jul 27 Spain and France sign peace treaty
- Aug 15 Austrian composer Joseph Haydn leaves England forever after calling the time spent there "the happiest of his life"
- Aug 17 Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curacao
- Aug 18 Curacao governor De Veer sends militia to stop rebellious slaves
- Aug 20 Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
- Aug 25 Curaçao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher
- Sep 5 USA and Algiers sign peace treaty
Lyrical Ballads
Sep 15 "Lyrical Ballads" published by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth - 1st work of English Romantic movement (probable date)
- Sep 15 Dutch East India controlled Cape Colony (present day South Africa) surrenders to Britain
- Sep 16 British capture Capetown, South Africa, from the Dutch
- Sep 19 Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned
- Sep 23 Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris
- Oct 1 Belgium is conquered by France
- Oct 1 France annexes Southern Netherlands
- Oct 2 Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao
- Oct 16 M von Böhms "Oorlogscantate" premieres
- Oct 24 3rd Partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
- Oct 26 The Directoire, a five-man revolutionary government of France, is created
- Oct 27 Pinckney's Treaty [Treaty of San Lorenzo] signed by Spain and US, establishing the southern boundary of the US and giving Americans right to navigate the Mississippi River
- Nov 20 Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday
- Nov 28 US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis
- Dec 19 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
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