Millennium:	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 would later be considered to have effectively ended on November 9, 1799, when a successful coup d'état put Napoléon Bonaparte in control of France.
• French inventor Claude Chappe first demonstrated a practical semaphore system (1792). Use of this system would eventually expand to include the whole of France. This would later be considered to be the first practical telecommunications system.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on December 5, 1791.
• Lions became extinct in Egypt by this time.
• Canal Mania broke out in the United Kingdom.
• John "Iron Mad" Wilkinson's Iron Madness reached its peak.

World leaders

• King Louis XVI (France)
• Maximilien Robespierre (France)
• First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte (France)
• King George III (Great Britain)
• Emperor Leopold II (Holy Roman Empire)
• Emperor Francis II (Holy Roman Empire)
• Frederick William II of Prussia, King of Prussia
• Emperor Kangxi (China)
• Shah Alam II,(Mughal Empire)
• Peshwa of the Marathas

1. Madhav Rao II 1774 - 1795
2. Baji Rao II 1795-1818

• Tipu Sultan, (Mysore)
• Pope Pius VI
• Empress Catherine II (Russia)
• Emperor Paul (Russia)
• King Charles IV (Spain)
• President George Washington (United States)
• President John Adams (United States)
• Shahs of Persia (Zand dynasty and Qajar dynasty)

1. Lotf Ali Khan, 1789-1794
2. Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, 1796-1797
3. Fath Ali Shah, 1797-1834

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "1790s". Image Credit.

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