Georgian

Feb 05, 1768

Robert Stopford is born

Location: Portsmouth

1770

Te Ruki Kawiti is born.

Location: New Zealand

Sep 08, 1774

Mustafa IV is born.

Location: Constantinople

Oct 24, 1775

Bahadur Shah Zafar is born Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad

Location: India

Feb 26, 1777

George Burrell is born in Longhoughton in Northumberland.

Location: Britain

Jun 23, 1779

Charles Austen is born

Location: Britain

Nov 07, 1779

Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Gough is born in Ireland

Location: Ireland

1780

Tāmati Wāka Nene is born on Ngāpuhi iwi of the Bay of Islands

Location: Bay Of Islands

1780

Robert Stopford joins the Royal Navy

Location: Portsmouth

1781

Guan Tianpei was born Shanyang county in Jiangsu province.

Location: China

1781

John Smith is born. There is not much information about his early life, but he was working as a cooper before being orphaned and given to the Marine Society to train.

Location: Britain

Jun 29, 1781

Captain Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse was born in Barbados. His father was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and surveyor-general of Barbados and the Leeward Islands.

Location: Barbados

Dec 01, 1781

William Parker is born in Almington, Staffordshire.

Location: Britain

Sep 16, 1782

Minning is born in Peking as the second son of Prince Yongyan. He was not Prince Yongyan’s first son, but because he was born to his father’s primary spouse rather than a concubine that placed him higher in the order of succession than his brother.

Location: Peking

1784

Colonel Henry Despard is born in Ireland.

Location: Ireland

1785

Robert Stopford is commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy is commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy

Location: Portsmouth

Jul 20, 1785

Mahmud II is born

Location: Constantinople

Aug 30, 1785

Lin Zexu is born in Houguan. He was the son of another official of the Qing government, and quickly recognised as unusually intelligent.

Location: China

Dec 04, 1785

James Whitley Deans Dundas is born

Location: Britain

Jan 06, 1786

Gordon Bremer's father is believed to have been killed when the East Indiaman Haswell is sunk off the coast of Dorset.

Location: Britain

Jan 18, 1786

Qishan is born into a noble Mongol family.

Location: China

Mar 06, 1786

Charles Napier is born is Falkirk

Location: Britain

Apr 16, 1786

Sir john Franklin is born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire as the ninth of twelve children.

Location: Britain

Sep 13, 1786

The Marine Society is leased a sloop moored at Deptford called Beatty for use as their first Training Ship.

Location: Britain

Sep 26, 1786

Gordon Bremer is born in Portsea near Portsmouth. He was the only son of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy

Location: Portsmouth

Nov 05, 1787

John Richardson is born in Dumfries

Location: Britain

1788

Lieutenant-Colonel William Hulme is born

Location: Britain

Jan 22, 1788

Lord Byron is born in London. His father had wanted him to be called William, but as he was not there his mother named him George Gordon Byron after her father.

Location: Britain

May 1788

Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi was born in Lyon in France and originally called Joseph Anthelme Sève

Location: France

Nov 10, 1788

Arthur Fleming Morrell is born in Stoke Damerel in Devon

Location: Britain

1789

Ibrahim Pasha is born

Location: Egypt

Mar 08, 1789

George Byron, Lord Byron's brother, is born

Location: Britain

Jun 30, 1789

Hugh Massy Wheeler is born in Ireland

Location: Ireland

Dec 1789

Robert Stopford is appointed Captain fo HMS Ferret

Location: Portsmouth

Feb 11, 1791

Alexandros Mavrokordatos is born

Location: Greece

Jul 1791

Charles Austen joins the Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth

Location: Royal Naval College, Portsmouth

Dec 26, 1791

Charles Babbage is born in London. His father was a banking partner in the founding of Pread's and Co of Fleet Street.

Location: Britain

Mar 07, 1792

Sir John Herschel is born in Slough. He is the son of the astronomer William Herschel.

Location: Britain

Sep 26, 1792

William Hobson was born in Waterford in Ireland

Location: Ireland

Oct 20, 1792

Colin Campbell is born Colin Macliver in Glasgow

Location: Britain

Feb 1793

William Parker joins the Royal Navy as a Captain's Servant on HMS Orion.

Location: Portsmouth

Feb 22, 1793

Mary Elizabeth Clarke is born in Westminster

Location: Britain

Apr 23, 1793

Captain Pringle Stokes is born the son of Charles and Elizabeth Stokes.

Location: Britain

Aug 07, 1793

Hugh Gough is commissioned into the Limerick Militia

Location: Ireland

1794

Gordon Bremer joins the Royal Navy at age 12 as a volunteer on board HMS Sandwich at the Nore.

Location: Portsmouth

Feb 14, 1794

Frank Abney Hastings is born

Location: Britain

Jun 01, 1794

William Parker takes part in the Glorious 1st of June.

Location: Atlantic

Sep 1794

Charles Austen joins HMS Daedalus as a Midshipman

Location: Britain

Oct 11, 1794

Hugh Gough is promoted to lieutenant in the 119th Regiment of Foot

Location: Ireland

Apr 05, 1795

Henry Havelock is born

Location: Britain

Jul 08, 1797

John Smith's grandparents take him to the Marine Society to be trained as a sailor. He is accepted and sent to the Training Ship Beatty at Deptford.

Location: Britain

Sep 18, 1797

John Smith joins the Royal Navy as warrant officer’s servant on HMS Dromedary.

Location: Britain

1801

Anthony William Milward is born in the Bromley Saint Leonard area of London

Location: Britain

Aug 06, 1801

Arthur Morrell joins the Royal Navy

Location: Britain

1806

Horatio Beauman Young is born

Location: Britain

Jan 06, 1809

Robert Spencer Robinson is born in Welford Park in Berkshire. He is the son of Sir John Robinson, a baronette and the Archdeacon of Armagh.

Location: Britain

Jul 28, 1809

Arthur Morrell is commissioned as a Lieutenant

Location: Britain