The harvesting of sea turtles to resupply passing sailing ships was the first major economic activity on the islands, but local stocks were depleted by the 1790s.

In his 1976 book Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Raymond Williams states in the entry for " Industry ": " The idea of a new social order based on major industrial change was clear in Southey and Owen, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the early 1790s and Wordsworth at the turn of the century.

One Maroon community was expelled from the island after the Second Maroon War in the 1790s.

It was only with the emergence of nationalist sentiment from the late 18th century that the desire was felt to display national flags also in civilian contexts, notably the US flag, in origin adopted as a naval ensign in 1777, which after the American Revolution began to be displayed as a generic symbol of the United States, and the French Tricolore which became a symbol of the Republic in the 1790s.

The idea was first formulated into the field of biology in the 1790s among the German Natural philosophers, after which, Marcel Danesi states, it soon gained the status of a biogenetic law.

He then attempted to sell extracted lime juice as a medicine, but the lime juice had no effect in treating scurvy, due to the oxidization of vitamin C. Therefore, this solution was not adopted by the Royal Navy until the 1790s, and the idea that any acid would suffice continued in Britain into the late 19th century.

In the 1790s Burma was defeated and driven out of Siam, as it was then called.

Lanna also became free of Burmese occupation, but the king of a new dynasty who was installed in the 1790s was effectively a tributary ruler of the Chakri monarch.

At one sedition trial in the early 1790s, the Attorney – General tried to prohibit Thomas Cooper from publishing his response to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, arguing that " although there was no exception to be taken to his pamphlet when in the hands of the upper classes, yet the government would not allow it to appear at a price which would insure its circulation among the people.

Just as in the 1790s, it was the language that most angered the authorities in 1818.

By the 1790s, the First Party System was born.

The Federalist Party was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816, the era of the First Party System, with remnants lasting into the 1820s.

The American War of 1812 was to be the encore of Bermudian privateering, which had died out after the 1790s, due partly to the build up of the naval base in Bermuda, which reduced the Admiralty's reliance on privateers in the western Atlantic, and partly to successful American legal suits, and claims for damages pressed against British privateers, a large portion of which were aimed squarely at the Bermudians.

During the decade he worked in Shunshō's studio, Hokusai was married to his first wife, about whom very little is known except that she died in the early 1790s.

New Shaker communities formed in the 1780s and 1790s included Hancock and West Pittsfield, Massachusetts ; Harvard, Massachusetts ; East Canterbury, New Hampshire ( or Shaker Village ); Shirley, Massachusetts ; Enfield, Connecticut ( then also known as Shaker Station ); Enfield, New Hampshire ; (" Chosen Vale "), at Tyringham, Massachusetts ; New Gloucester, Maine ( since 1890: " Sabbathday Lake "); and Alfred, Maine, where, more than anywhere else among the Shakers, spiritualistic healing of the sick was practiced.

By the 1790s most of the viable stocks of mahogany in Jamaica had been cut, and the market was divided between two principal sources or types of mahogany.

Popularized by Jenner in the late 1790s, kinepox was a far safer method for inoculating people against smallpox than the previous method, variolation, which had a 3 % fatality rate.

The northern portion of the land grant was purchased by Henry Brookes, and he built his home ' Montpelier ' there in the late 1780s or early 1790s.

Murdoch was the inventor of the oscillating cylinder steam engine, and gas lighting is attributed to him in the early 1790s, also the term " gasometer ".

The cathedral suffered desecration during the radical phase of the French Revolution in the 1790s, when much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed.

Although Brown was by no means the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres ( novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings of every sort, poetry, historiography, reviews ) makes him a crucial figure in US literature and culture of the 1790s and first decade of the 19th century, and a significant public intellectual in the wider Atlantic print culture and public sphere of the era of the French Revolution.

The work of John J. Beckley, Jefferson's agent in Pennsylvania, set new standards in the 1790s.

Bellingham certainly worked as a clerk in a counting house in the late 1790s, and around 1800 he went to Arkhangelsk in Russia as an agent for importers and exporters.

In the 1790s, a Methodist pastor serving churches in central North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, James O ' Kelly, took exception to the development of an episcopacy within his church.

The last remaining significant Māori settlement in the area, on North Head, was wiped out by rival tribes in the 1790s.

Broome puts forward that two epidemics of smallpox decimated the population of the Kulin tribes by perhaps killing half each time in the 1790s and again around 1830.

In the 1790s, Egushawa fought the United States in a series of battles and campaigns together with other regional tribes in what became known as the Northwest Indian War.

Broome puts forward that two epidemics of small pox decimated the population of the Kulin tribes by perhaps killing half each time in the 1790s and again around 1830.

During the 1790s, there emerged of a new generation of composers, born around 1770, who, while they had grown up with the earlier styles, found in the recent works of Haydn and Mozart a vehicle for greater expression.

In the 1790s he fretted over an aging George Washington being too much influenced by close advisers such as Alexander Hamilton, who Monroe thought too close to Britain.

France also lacked funds, and no longer had the services of Lazare Carnot, the war minister who had guided it to successive victories following extensive reforms during the early 1790s.

The first bookmaker in the UK is considered to be Harry Ogden, who opened a business in the 1790s, although similar activities had existed in other forms earlier in the century.

The effect was named after the scientist Luigi Galvani, who investigated the effect of electricity on dissected animals in the 1780s and 1790s.

In the 1790s the Austins took over the mines that produced lead and zinc ; the town was named for the Austin surname, and not for any one particular Austin of the brothers who bore that surname.

On February 25, 1803, the name was changed to Lyman in honor of Theodore Lyman, a wealthy merchant who established a successful shipping firm in the 1790s at York before moving to Boston.

White settlement in the region commenced in the 1790s at Fenton, and 1801 at House Springs to the southwest, but the first settlement of record on the ridge was by Thomas Maddox, who died and was buried along High Ridge Blvd, in 1848.

Schooley's Mountain is an unincorporated community in Washington Township named for the Schooley family, who owned a considerable amount of land there during the 1790s.

During the 1790s Westford received an influx of land-hungry settlers from New England who subsequently established the first churches and schools in Westford.

The area was initially settled in the late 1790s upon the arrival of brothers Joseph and Andrew Barnett, as well as their brother-in-law Samuel Scott, who together established the first settlement at the confluence of the Sandy Lick and Mill Creeks in the area now known as Port Barnett.

Friendsville was founded by Quakers from New Garden, North Carolina who settled in the area in the 1790s.

The town's namesake is unknown, although some have suggested that its name was influenced by the French King Louis-Philippe, who visited the area in the late 1790s.

This movement was likely influenced by the relatively large numbers of Quakers who migrated to the region from Pennsylvania in the 1790s.

During the 1790s Stadler, who owing to financial problems in 1796 lost his job in the court orchestra, toured northern Europe, performing concerts on the basset horn.

The term loyalist was first used in Irish politics in the 1790s, to refer to British settlers in Ireland who opposed Catholic Emancipation.

Armand's brother, Lieutenant General Charles Martin, who commanded troops stationed at Fort de Boueff ( Watertown, Pennsylvania ) in the late 1790s, settled in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

In the early 1790s, concerned at the likelihood of war between Britain and France, Matthews travelled to France with the radical David Williams who was acquainted with such Girondists as Jacques Pierre Brissot and Le Brun.

Barrington also speaks of a John Nancarrow from Marazion who was a native speaker and survived into the 1790s.

Grelaud, a Protestant Huguenot, was a refugee from the French Revolution, who founded her school in the 1790s.

He led the generation of composers who emerged in France in the 1790s, which included his friend and rival Luigi Cherubini and his outright enemy Jean-François Le Sueur.

During the 1790s, Pitești was visited by Luigi Mayer, a German pupil of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who left etchings of the region ( including the very first one of Pitești ); they were published in London in 1810, with legends authored by T. Bowyer, whose caption for Pitești read " nothing more wild or romantic can be conceived ".

Barrington also speaks of a John Nancarrow from Marazion who was a native speaker and survived into the 1790s.