1790s

1790s

Millennia: 2nd millennium

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s

Years: 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794
1795 1796 1797 1798 1799

Categories: Births - Deaths - Architecture
Establishments - Disestablishments

Events and trends

French Revolution (1789 - 1799). It is considered to have effectively ended on November 9, 1799 when a successful coup d'état places Napoléon Bonaparte in control of France.
French inventor Claude Chappe first demonstrates a practical semaphore system (1792). Use of the system will eventually expand to include the whole of France. This is considered to be the first practical telecommunications system.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on December 5, 1791.
Lions became extinct from Egypt by this time.
Canal Mania in the United Kingdom.
John "Iron Mad" Wilkinson's Iron madness reaches its peak.