1790s - Definition and Overview
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
1800
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.
World Leaders
King
Louis XVI
(
France
)
Maximilien Robespierre
(
France
)
King
George III
(
Great Britain
)
Emperor
Leopold II
(
Holy Roman Empire
)
Emperor
Francis II
(
Holy Roman Empire
)
Emperor
Kangxi
(
China
)
Pope Pius VI
Empress
Catherine II
(
Russia
)
Emperor
Paul
(
Russia
)
President
George Washington
(
United States
)
President
John Adams
(
United States
)
Example Usage of 1790s
PagestoPixels: #writing #reading #poets Time Machine to
1790s
! Coleridge hopelessly addicted to Opium! -
http://bit.ly/1yM6b6
incanus77: @chrisfarber I do. My great-grandmother was named Esther Rebecca Dinger. I was born in western PA and that side goes back to
1790s
there.
alessandra83: Started reading Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier. Set in London in the
1790s
. One of the characters is William Blake!
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