1790S

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Events and Trends

World Leaders

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

★ 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)

★ 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)
# Lotf Ali Khan, 1789-1794
# Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, 1796-1797
# Fath Ali Shah, 1797-1834