The final dismantlement and sale of the buildings took place during the French regime in the 1790s.

At the age of 65, Wilkes retired from politics and took no part in the growth of radicalism in the 1790s following the French Revolution.

Thus, although he took a leading part in creating a whig opposition in Ireland in the 1790s, he overplayed his hand under FitzWilliam, and his effectiveness was thereafter limited.

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.

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.

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.

After the late 1790s, his health deteriorated by a series of rheumatic attacks, his relationship to his consort improved and she gained more influence over him.

When Steuben's effort in July to negotiate a transfer of frontier forts with Maj. Gen. Frederick Haldimand collapsed, however, the British maintained control over them, as they would into the 1790s.

By the 1790s, France chose the Celsius scale for the metric system over the Réaumur measurements.

Competition between Spain and the United Kingdom over control of Nootka Sound led to a bitter international dispute around 1790, called the Nootka Crisis, which was settled with the Nootka Conventions of the 1790s, when Spain agreed to abandon its exclusive claims to the North Pacific coast.

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.

The domain's two sets of formal rules for its army, the Rules for Commanders ( 将長禁令 shōchō kinrei ) and Rules for Soldiers ( 士卒禁令 shisotsu kinrei ), written in the 1790s, laid down a professional, modern standard for military conduct and operations, including the following two items in the Rules for Soldiers which codified the human rights and protection of enemy noncombatants, over 70 years before the first Geneva Convention of 1864:

The splintering of territory and states over generations meant that by the 1790s in the German-speaking Holy Roman Empire in Central Europe, there were approximately 1800 customs barriers.

As a result of the society's success in promoting industry, the population of Paterson grew from 500 in the 1790s to over 5, 000 by 1820.

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.

The Nootka Sound Conventions were a series of three agreements between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Great Britain, signed in the 1790s which averted a war between the two empires over overlapping claims to portions of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.

Construction was carried out between the 1730s and the 1790s on a site of over three hundred hectares.

Annual profits rose to £ 40, 000 in the 1790s and peaked, atypically, at over £ 200, 000 in 1802 ; they were calculated after payment to partners at 4 % interest, sometimes 5 %, on their capital.

The gothic style Ornamental Bridge over the canal was built in 1790s at the insistence of a local landowner, the Biggins family when the two halves of the canal joined here, one from Braunston, the other from Brentford.

These pricey models cost more than 60 dollars during their heyday, the 1790s, to put the amount into today's dollars, one dollar was an ounce of silver and in 2012 is worth over $ 40, so just in silver it is a few thousand 2012 dollars.

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.

Saltom Pit was used as a central pumping station, draining many of the other local mines via a drift driven in the 1790s, and continued in use long after it had ceased to work coal.

The early 1790s were a time when there was an increasing demand for coal, but a shortage in many places because much of the coal being produced was being consumed by industries close to the mines.

Moses Austin ( father of Stephen F. Austin ) and his brother Stephen Austin owned the lead mines and surrounding operations during the 1790s.

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.

Domination by France during the era of the French Revolution ( 1790s to 1815 ), however, produced important institutional reforms.

He produced a machine for carding, the process which laid out the cotton fibres parallel, however not all his inventions were successful and cleaning the cotton was performed by hand until the 1790s when an effective machine was invented.

In the 1780s he produced a pastoral series called Haymakers and Reapers, and in the early 1790s he enjoyed the patronage of the Prince of Wales, whom he painted on horseback in 1791.

In the 1790s copper and galena were produced.

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.

During the 1790s, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, punishing opponents of the Federalist Party ; the Supreme Court never ruled on the matter.

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.

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.

Austen almost never refers to specific dates or historical events in her novels, but wartime England forms part of the general backdrop to several of them: in Pride and Prejudice ( 1813, but possibly written during the 1790s ), the local militia ( civilian volunteers ) has been called up for home defence and its officers play an important role in the plot ; in Mansfield Park ( 1814 ), Fanny Price's brother William is a midshipman ( officer in training ) in the Royal Navy ; and in Persuasion ( 1818 ), Frederic Wentworth and several other characters are naval officers recently returned from service.

Conté crayons, out of Paris, are a hybrid between a pastel and a conventional crayon ; used since the late 1790s as a drawing crayon for artists.

In the early 1790s he completed two history pictures: Homer reciting his poems, a small picture of the poet in a pastoral setting ; and Satan summoning his legions, a giant canvas to illustrate lines from John Milton's Paradise Lost.

* Elias Sanford Palmer served as a lieutenant in Wadsworth ’ s Brigade during the Long Island campaign in late 1776 and remained in the militia service during the war and beyond ; by the 1790s Palmer was commander of the 30th Militia Regiment.

It was not until the 1790s that the Big Osage pressed the settlement harder ; they conducted repeated raids and killed some settlers.

* Brabson's Ferry Plantation, near Boyd's Creek ; established by Andrew Evans in early 1790s and purchased by John Brabson in 1798.

Political and sentimental discourse in 1790s America: Judith Sargent Murray's The Gleaner, Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette, and Susanna Haswell Rowson's Reuben and Rachel ; or, Tales of Old Times ( thesis / dissertation ).

The emerging discipline of geology also brought natural history and natural philosophy closer together ; Georges Cuvier and others made great strides in comparative anatomy and paleontology in the late 1790s and early 19th century.

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

As early as the 1780s, portions of the Gospels appeared in Hangul ; doctrinal books such as the " Jugyo Yoji " ( 주교요지 ) appeared in the 1790s and a Catholic hymnary was printed around 1800.

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.

The French revolution catalyzed existing internal political friction in Britain in the 1790s ; a few political radicals used animal magnetism as more than just a moral threat but also a political threat.

In person Marchesi might have been the handsomest castrato of all time ; during his London engagement in the 1790s, Maria Cosway deserted husband and children and followed the singer around Europe for several years.

Lewis had been quartermaster under Jackson during the War of 1812 ; Andrew Donelson was Jackson's adoptive son and private secretary ; and Overton was Andrew Jackson's friend and business partner since the 1790s.