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1790s

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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

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 5th 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.

World Leaders

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

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