1790s

Some European powers at the end of the 1790s.

The 1790s were a decade from January 1, 1790, to December 31, 1799.

Events

1790

• Jesse Ramsden invents an equatorial armor for astronomical instruments.
• Thomas Wedgwood starts doing his first experiments on photography.

1791

• Mozart composes The magic flute and Réquiem en re menor.

1792

• Abolition of the slave trade in Denmark.
• Proclamation of the I French Republic.
• France declares war on the Sacro Empire and Prussia.
• Manuel Godoy is appointed Prime Minister of Carlos IV of Spain.

1793

• Execution of Louis XVI.
• Creation of the First Coalition (England, Austria, Prussia, the United Provinces, Spain and the Kingdom of Sardinia) to combat France.
• Opening of the Louvre Museum in Paris.

1798

• Creation by Joseph Haydn.
• Malthus publishes his Testing on the principle of the population anonymously.

1799

• Napoleon Bonaparte is named the first consul of the First French Republic.
• Jean François Champollion discovers the Rosetta stone.