French Revolution
1789–1799
Overthrow of the French monarchy.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- 1789–1799
- Place
- France
Who was alive during French Revolution
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804, philosopher
- George Washington 1732–1799, US president
- Joseph Haydn 1732–1809, composer
- John Adams 1735–1826, US president
- James Watt 1736–1819, inventor
- Marquis de Sade 1740–1814, nobleman
- Francisco Goya 1746–1828, painter
- Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825, painter
- Edward Jenner 1749–1823, physician
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832, writer
- Betsy Ross 1752–1836, American patriot
- Kitagawa Utamaro c. 1753–1806, artist
- Marquis de Lafayette 1757–1834, military leader
- Katsushika Hokusai 1760–1849, artist
- Alexander von Humboldt 1769–1859, naturalist and explorer
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770–1831, philosopher
- Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827, composer
- J. M. W. Turner 1775–1851, painter
- Jane Austen 1775–1817, writer
- Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855, mathematician
- Davy Crockett 1786–1836, frontiersman
- John Franklin 1786–1847, explorer
- Arthur Schopenhauer 1788–1860, philosopher
- Lord Byron 1788–1824, poet