Large scale shipbuilding began in the 1790s, beginning with schooners for local trade moving in the 1820s to larger brigs and brigantines, mostly built for British shipowners.

A few years afterwards, Methodist Episcopal circuit riders from New York State began to arrive in Canada West at Niagara, and the north shore of Lake Erie in 1786, and at the Kingston region on the northeast shore of Lake Ontario in the early 1790s.

Metrication began in France in the 1790s and spread widely during the following two centuries, to be the internationally dominating measurement system and legal standard.

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.

In the 1790s, English astronomer William Herschel began an extensive study of nebulous celestial objects.

From the 1790s, the term began being used also for propaganda in secular activities.

From the 1790s, iron edge rails began to appear in the United Kingdom.

The revolutionaries, after overthrowing the French monarchy in the 1790s, began by setting up a republic ; Napoleon converted it into an Empire with a new aristocracy.

While the early parachutes were made of linen stretched over a wooden frame, in the late 1790s, Blanchard began making parachutes from folded silk, taking advantage of silk's strength and light weight.

In the United States, toll roads began with the Lancaster Turnpike in the 1790s, within Pennsylvania, connecting Philadelphia and Lancaster.

In the late 1790s, sugar production began to produce more refined sugar crystals.

Whites began to arrive in the county during the 1790s.

In the 1790s Earl Camden began to develop some fields to the north and west of the Old Church as Camden Town, which has become a better known place name than St Pancras.

However, it was only after the United States gained its independence, in the 1790s, that mills began to emerge throughout the town in a serious way.

Adventuresome townspeople had been attempting this before the Revolution — an early attempt to settle the then-wild Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania in the 1760s ended in disaster — but in the 1790s small groups began leaving to help settle new towns in upstate New York and, later, Ohio.

Western settlements can be dated back to the 1790s when the Cornwell family first settled and began farming the area.

Portsmouth's roots began in the 1790s when the small town of Alexandria was founded just west of where Portsmouth is today.

The earliest organized religious services in Stephens City began in 1790s when a Methodist Episcopal church was created in the town.

It was here during the early 1790s that he began his comparisons of fossils with extant forms.

The former city of Chatham began as a naval dockyard in the 1790s, as it straddles the Thames River.

Warren Pumps LLC, which began operations in 1897, continues a tradition of municipal ( including flood control pumps for New Orleans, Louisiana ), industrial, and commercial pump manufacturing in the town that dates back to the 1790s.

European settlers began to arrive in the area in the 1790s.

European settlement of this area began in the 1790s when surveyors laid out York Township.

By the 1790s there was a reaction against these stereotypical compositions ; a number of thinkers began to promote the idea of picturesque gardens.

The reaction to Napoleon's conquests of German countries during the era of the French Revolution ( 1790s to 1815 ), produced important institutional reforms, including the abolition of feudal restrictions on the sale of large landed estates, the reduction of the power of the guilds in the cities, and the introduction of a new, more efficient commercial law.

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.

Haydn became more interested in choral music near the end of his life following his visits to England in the 1790s, when he heard various Handel oratorios performed by large forces ; he wrote a series of masses beginning in 1797 and his two great oratorios The Creation and The Seasons.

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

In the early 1790s, Thomas Buckingham established a large farm between Boyd's Creek and Sevierville.

Lord Whitworth contributed the centre portion of the large stained-glass window above the altar, which he had purchased while in Paris, and which reputedly had come from Russia ( he had been plenipotentiary in St. Petersburg in the 1790s ).

Throughout the 1780s and 1790s, William Blount and his brothers gradually bought up large amounts of western lands, acquiring over 2. 5 million acres by the mid-1790s.

Copley had also painted several large and heroic depictions of disasters at sea which Géricault may have known from prints: Watson and the Shark ( 1778 ), in which a black man is central to the action, and which, like The Raft of the Medusa, concentrated on the actors of the drama rather than the seascape ; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 ( 1791 ), which was an influence on both the style and subject matter of Géricault's work ; and Scene of a Shipwreck ( 1790s ), which has a strikingly similar composition.

During the 1790s politicians and land speculators in Georgia perpetrated corrupt land sales in an area that is now a large portion of Alabama and Mississippi.

The canal, first surveyed in the 1790s provided the first water route between the Susquehanna River and the Delaware River, allowing large shipments of coal to Philadelphia.

Simeon De Witt built a large house or mansion and a number of out buildings on the site of the old fort during the 1790s, and the address for the site of the old fort became 549 South Market Street ( later Broadway ).

A number of architectural details survive in the buildings on Hurst Street, as old as lintels of 1790s design and including an automobile showroom and a large Fisher & Ludlow automobile factory from the 1930s.

Continuing his conquests in the 1790s, Andrianampoinimerina began establishing control over a comparatively large part of the highlands of Madagascar including the twelve sacred hills of Imerina.

Opinion of Shakespeare was briefly shaped in the 1790s by the " discovery " of the Shakespeare Papers by William Henry Ireland.

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.

Wayne is mainly remembered for his service in the 1790s in the Northwest Indian War, which included many actions in Indiana and Ohio.

By the early and mid 1790s, Red Banks had a tavern and residents included several European-American families, as well as the Cherokee.

As the colony struggled, some of the freedmen later chose in the early 1790s to go to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the British set up a new colony, which included the Black Poor from London.

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.

Quakers, who had migrated to the region from Pennsylvania in the 1790s, formed the Manumission Society of Tennessee in 1814. Notable supporters included Presbyterian clergyman Samuel Doak, Tusculum College cofounder Hezekiah Balch, and Maryville College president Isaac Anderson.

English appearances at this time included York in 1785 and 1789, and Leeds and Beverley in the early 1790s.

The buildings at Fort Mifflin included barracks for soldiers in the 1790s, measuring by and consisting of two stories.

It included historic items dating from the John Reynolds plantation, including pendants made by slaves from 1790s Spanish coins, and material related to colonial salt production.