Robert Stopford is Born
Feb 05, 1768
Robert Stopford is born
EditLocation: Portsmouth
Kawiti is Born
1770
Te Ruki Kawiti is born.
EditLocation: New Zealand
Mustafa Iv is Born
Sep 08, 1774
Mustafa IV is born.
EditLocation: Constantinople
Bahadur Shah is Born
Oct 24, 1775
Bahadur Shah Zafar is born Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad
EditLocation: India
George Burrell is Born
Feb 26, 1777
George Burrell is born in Longhoughton in Northumberland.
EditLocation: Britain
Charles Austen is Born
Jun 23, 1779
Charles Austen is born
EditLocation: Britain
Hugh Gough is Born
Nov 07, 1779
Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Gough is born in Ireland
EditLocation: Ireland
Waaka is Born
1780
Tāmati Wāka Nene is born on Ngāpuhi iwi of the Bay of Islands
EditLocation: Bay Of Islands
Robert Stopford joins the Royal Navy
1780
Robert Stopford joins the Royal Navy
EditLocation: Portsmouth
Guan Tianpei is Born
1781
Guan Tianpei was born Shanyang county in Jiangsu province.
EditLocation: China
John Smith is Born
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.
… more EditLocation: Britain
Humphrey Senhouse is Born
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.
EditLocation: Barbados
William Parker is Born
Dec 01, 1781
William Parker is born in Almington, Staffordshire.
EditLocation: Britain
Minning is Born
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.
EditLocation: Peking
Despard is Born
1784
Colonel Henry Despard is born in Ireland.
EditLocation: Ireland
Robert Stopford Promoted to Lieutenant
1785
Robert Stopford is commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy is commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy
EditLocation: Portsmouth
Mahmud II is Born
Jul 20, 1785
Mahmud II is born
EditLocation: Constantinople
Lin Zexu is Born
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.
EditLocation: China
James Dundas is Born
Dec 04, 1785
James Whitley Deans Dundas is born
EditLocation: Britain
Gordon Bremer's Father is Killed
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.
EditLocation: Britain
Qishan is Born
Jan 18, 1786
Qishan is born into a noble Mongol family.
EditLocation: China
Charles Napier is Born
Mar 06, 1786
Charles Napier is born is Falkirk
EditLocation: Britain
Sir John Franklin is Born
Apr 16, 1786
Sir john Franklin is born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire as the ninth of twelve children.
EditLocation: Britain
TS Beatty Founded
Sep 13, 1786
The Marine Society is leased a sloop moored at Deptford called Beatty for use as their first Training Ship.
… more EditLocation: Britain
Gordon Bremer is Born
Sep 26, 1786
Gordon Bremer is born in Portsea near Portsmouth. He was the only son of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy
EditLocation: Portsmouth
John Richardson is Born
Nov 05, 1787
John Richardson is born in Dumfries
EditLocation: Britain
William Hulme is Born
1788
Lieutenant-Colonel William Hulme is born
EditLocation: Britain
Lord Byron is Born
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.
EditLocation: Britain
Soliman Pasha is Born
May 1788
Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi was born in Lyon in France and originally called Joseph Anthelme Sève
EditLocation: France
Arthur Morrell is Born
Nov 10, 1788
Arthur Fleming Morrell is born in Stoke Damerel in Devon
EditLocation: Britain
Ibrahim Pasha is Born
1789
Ibrahim Pasha is born
EditLocation: Egypt
George Byron is Born
Mar 08, 1789
George Byron, Lord Byron's brother, is born
EditLocation: Britain
Hugh Wheeler is Born
Jun 30, 1789
Hugh Massy Wheeler is born in Ireland
EditLocation: Ireland
Robert Stopford Promoted to Captain
Dec 1789
Robert Stopford is appointed Captain fo HMS Ferret
EditLocation: Portsmouth
Alexandros Mavrokordatos is Born
Feb 11, 1791
Alexandros Mavrokordatos is born
EditLocation: Greece
Charles Austen joins the Royal Naval Academy
Jul 1791
Charles Austen joins the Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth
EditLocation: Royal Naval College, Portsmouth
Charles Babbage is Born
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.
EditLocation: Britain
Sir John Herschel is Born
Mar 07, 1792
Sir John Herschel is born in Slough. He is the son of the astronomer William Herschel.
EditLocation: Britain
William Hobson is Born
Sep 26, 1792
William Hobson was born in Waterford in Ireland
EditLocation: Ireland
Colin Campbell is Born
Oct 20, 1792
Colin Campbell is born Colin Macliver in Glasgow
EditLocation: Britain
Mary Elizabeth Clarke is Born
Feb 22, 1793
Mary Elizabeth Clarke is born in Westminster
EditLocation: Britain
Captain Pringle Stokes is Born
Apr 23, 1793
Captain Pringle Stokes is born the son of Charles and Elizabeth Stokes.
EditLocation: Britain
Hugh Gough is Commissioned
Aug 07, 1793
Hugh Gough is commissioned into the Limerick Militia
EditLocation: Ireland
Frank Abney Hastings is Born
Feb 14, 1794
Frank Abney Hastings is born
EditLocation: Britain
The Glorious 1St of June
Jun 01, 1794
William Parker takes part in the Glorious 1st of June.
EditLocation: Atlantic
Charles Austen Becomes a Midshipman
Sep 1794
Charles Austen joins HMS Daedalus as a Midshipman
EditLocation: Britain
Hugh Gough Becomes a Lieutenant
Oct 11, 1794
Hugh Gough is promoted to lieutenant in the 119th Regiment of Foot
EditLocation: Ireland
Havelock is Born
Apr 05, 1795
Henry Havelock is born
EditLocation: Britain
John Smith joins TS Beatty
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.
… more EditLocation: Britain
Anthony Milward is Born
1801
Anthony William Milward is born in the Bromley Saint Leonard area of London
EditLocation: Britain
Horatio Young is Born
1806
Horatio Beauman Young is born
EditLocation: Britain
Robert Robinson is Born
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.
EditLocation: Britain
Morrell is Made Lieutenant
Jul 28, 1809
Arthur Morrell is commissioned as a Lieutenant
EditLocation: Britain