The appointment of Henry Mills as a musical overseer to the Welsh Methodist congregations in the 1780s saw a drive to improve singing throughout Wales.

The period saw continued rising prosperity for Britain and British artists: " By the 1780s English painters were among the wealthiest men in the country, their names familiar to newspaper readers, their quarrels and cabals the talk of the town, their subjects known to everyone from the displays in the print-shop windows ", according to Gerald Reitlinger.

Improved road communications and travel restrictions on continental Europe saw an explosion of British domestic tourism in the 1780s and 1790s.

The first, most notorious, and most significant, which antedated his engagement to his future wife, was with Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, whom he met at Devonshire House – the centre of Whig society in London in the 1780s and 1790s – shortly after his arrival in the capital as a young recruit to the House of Commons.

After the arrival of the Spanish in the 1780s and the displacement of the area's indigenous population, most of the area that is now Park La Brea became part of the Rancho La Brea land grant, and remained largely devoted to agriculture and petroleum production well into the 20th century.

* La Religieuse, Roman ( 1760 ; revised in 1770 and in the early 1780s ; the novel was first published as a volume posthumously in 1796 ).

The spread of increasingly democratic forms of representative governance has its origin in the formation of the first General Conventions of the American Episcopal Church in the 1780s, which established a " House of Bishops " and a " House of Deputies.

* Steam power – The improved steam engine invented by James Watt and patented in 1775 was at first mainly used to power pumps for pumping water out of mines, but from the 1780s was applied to power other types of machines.

Webster also played a critical role lobbying individual states throughout the country during the 1780s to pass the first American copyright laws, which were expected to have distinct nationalistic implications for the infant nation.

Shocking many when it was first introduced, the waltz became fashionable in Vienna around the 1780s, spreading to many other countries in the years to follow.

When the French Government first investigated the idea of overhauling their system of measurement, Talleyrand, in the late 1780s, acting on Concordet's advice, invited Riggs, a British Parliamentarian and Thomas Jefferson, the American Secretary of State to George Washington, to work with the French in producing an international standard by promoting legislation in their respective legislative bodies.

Hamilton, who had been a leading advocate of national constitutional reform throughout the 1780s and represented New York at the Constitutional Convention, in 1789 became the first Secretary of the Treasury, a post he held until his resignation in 1795.

The site of Lawrenceburg was settled in the early 1780s by a German immigrant named Jacob Kaufman and was first called Kaufman's ( or Coffman's ) Station.

The first permanent settlers also came in the 1780s.

The area was first surveyed and land grants were first awarded in the mid 1780s.

The area was first settled in the late 1780s by James Caldwell, who owned of land that included present West Union.

It was first published by French natural philosopher Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1802, although he credited the discovery to unpublished work from the 1780s by Jacques Charles.

Among other sights in Hrodna and its environs, we should mention the Orthodox cathedral, a polychrome Russian Revival extravaganza from 1904 ; the botanical garden, the first in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, founded in 1774 ; a curiously curved building on the central square ( 1780s ); a 254-metre-high TV tower ( 1984 ); and Stanisławów, a summer residence of the last Polish king.

The old water mill at Decew Falls, Niagara Escarpment, St. Catharines The city was first settled by Loyalists in the 1780s.

Alexander Christie ( c1721-1794 ) was provost in the town during the 1760s and 1780s and oversaw the establishment of Scotland's first Lunatic Asylum in Montrose in 1781 which became Sunnyside Royal Hospital.

Having began his theatrical career with Hughes Royal Circus in London in the 1780s, Englishman John Bill Ricketts brought the modern circus to the US in 1792, and he gave America's first complete circus performance in Philadelphia on 3 April 1793.

His first publications appeared during the late 1780s ( e. g. " The Rhapsodist " essay series from 1789 ), but generally he published little during this period.

The literary tradition is traced back to Wace, the 12th century Jersey-born poet, although there is little surviving literature in Jèrriais dating to before the introduction of the first printing press in Jersey in the 1780s.

The first ignition system to use an electric spark was probably Alessandro Volta's toy electric pistol from the 1780s.

The first Irish settled in Tilting in the 1750s, and uniquely for Newfoundland, Tilting evolved into an exclusively Irish and Catholic town by the 1780s.

Tennessee's first attempt at statehood was the State of Franklin, formed in the 1780s with its capital initially at Jonesborough and later Greeneville, but the state was never admitted by Congress.

Sunday schools were first set up in the 1780s to provide education to working children on their one day off from the factory.

At one point in its history, the southwest corner of Hanover was known as Dresden, which in the 1780s joined other disgruntled New Hampshire towns along the Connecticut River that briefly defected to what was then the independent Republic of Vermont.

He has become known as the " Founder of Chicago " and the place where he settled at the mouth of the Chicago River in the 1780s is recognized as a National Historic Landmark, now located in Pioneer Court.

Founded upon the teachings of Ann Lee, Shakers today are mostly known for their cultural contributions ( especially their style of music and furniture ), and their model of equality of the sexes, which they institutionalized in their society in the 1780s.

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.

The earliest known Euro-American settler in what is now Carthage was William Walton ( 1760 – 1816 ), who arrived in the late 1780s.

When that avenue closed in the 1780s after the American Revolution, Britain began using parts of what is now known in Australia as penal settlements.

The gallery known as the Raphael Loggias, designed by Giacomo Quarenghi and painted by Cristopher Unterberger and his workshop in the 1780s as a replication of the loggia in the Apostolic Palace in Rome frescoed by Raphael, runs along the eastern facade.

These and other works became well known at the time through engravings of Stubbs's work, which appeared in increasing numbers in the 1770s and 1780s.

* Leadmill Dam also known as Marriott's Wheel ( 1732 – 1780s ).

It became known as Peterburskoye Schosse after it was paved in the 1780s.

A vein of iron ore led to the digging of mines under the town, and the establishment by Job Gilbert in the 1780s of an iron works at Lenox Dale, also known as Lenox Furnace.

" The city was finally abandoned following the catastrophic fire of 1678, after which the remaining population was evacuated to Turukhansk at the junction of the Yenisei with the Lower Tunguska, which was known as New Mangazeya until the 1780s.

During the 1780s, a few liberal members of the ruling Protestant Ascendancy known as the Irish Patriot Party had promoted expanding the franchise and increasing Catholic and Presbyterian rights in Ireland.

An economic revival in the 1780s was not long lasting: in 1797 the Republic was occupied by the French revolutionary army of Napoleon Bonaparte, who overthrew the old elites who had ruled the city for all of its history, and replaced them with a popular republic known as the Ligurian Republic, under the watchful care of Napoleonic France.

In the 1780s, the road was known as Turvens Lane after Turvens House located a short distance north of Shepherd's Bush Green.

An assemblage of three separate buildings — a kitchen, a dwelling and an office — the Mytinger House, as it is commonly known, was built during colonial times probably dating from the 1740s to the 1780s, although there are no records to indicate the exact dates.

* Henry Francis Cary, a translator best known for his version of Dante's Divine Comedy, was educated at grammar schools in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham during the 1780s and published a volume of Odes & Sonnets while at the latter.

One area of the town, known now as the Lower Norton Shore, was originally known as the Yankee Shore because of all the Loyalist immigrants in the 1780s.