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 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.

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.

George Washington visited the city on his victory tour in the 1790s, and proclaimed that Haverhill was " one of the most beautiful villages ".

Both Manuel Quimper and George Vancouver explored the region's coast in the 1790s.

During the Quasi-War crisis of the late 1790s between France and the United States, he was given the third place in the United States Army behind George Washington and Alexander Hamilton.

The Nootka Conventions of the 1790s, carried out in part by George Vancouver and his Spanish counterpart Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, prevented the dispute from escalating to war.

A contemporary drawing of the village by George Cuit has revealed the cottage to have significantly deteriorated by as early as circa 1788, a precursor to it being levelled by new local landowner, Bartholomew Rudd, in the 1790s.

As a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, he commanded HMS Chatham as part of the Vancouver Expedition, a voyage of exploration through the Pacific Ocean led by Captain George Vancouver in the early 1790s.

The first White House executive buildings were built in the late 1790s, as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson readied the new capital for the government that was set to move there in December 1800.

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.

Washington, DC was planned and built in the 1790s.

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

This street was laid out by the mid 1790s and has remained at the centre of Cookstown's development ever since covering Killymoon Street, Church Street, Chapel Street, Loy Street, William Street, James Street Oldtown Street and finally Milburn Street and being the longest main street in Ireland.

After abolitionist movements led by such people as Samuel de Missy, the slave trade of La Rochelle ended with the onset of the French Revolution and the war with England in the 1790s, the last La Rochelle slave ship, the Saint-Jacques being captured in 1793 in the Gulf of Guinea.

Some time in the mid 1790s, the name was changed to Westernport, with the town being the western-most navigable port on the Potomac River.

As early as the 1790s, the forests on the Susquehanna were being logged and the timbers floated downriver to points near the ferry landing.

During the 1790s Henry Maudslay created the first screw-cutting lathe, a watershed event that signaled the start of blacksmiths being replaced by machinists in factories for the hardware needs of the populace.

Scholars are divided on the question of Burke ’ s association with the book thereafter, although many suggest that he continued to contribute to the history section and that he played a significant role in overseeing The Annual Register ’ s compilation until the 1790s, even though much of the editorial work by this stage was being done by others.

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.

The roof in the nave is the most recent of restorations with the plaster ceiling by Rev Dr Boog which was added in the 1790s being replaced by a timber roof in 1981.

The region was occupied by British and French Canadian fur traders from before 1810, and American settlers from the mid-1830s, with its coastal areas north from the Columbia River frequented by ships from all nations engaged in the maritime fur trade, most of these from the 1790s through 1810s being Boston-based.

Kirribilli is one of Australia's older suburbs, with the first land grants in the area being granted by the colonial government during the 1790s.

It is credited ( or conversely, discredited ) in constituting a significant impetus in delaying the abolition of the slave trade from taking place in the 1790s to being implemented in 1806-1808 ; and likewise, with respect to prospects of emancipation being proclaimed in the 1820s ( instead, a policy known as " Amelioration " was formally adopted throughout 1823-1833 ), to it being implemented in 1834-1838.

The sense that Locke ’ s philosophy had been misappropriated increasingly turned to a conviction that it was erroneous .” By the 1790s Locke was associated with Rousseau and Voltaire and being blamed for the American and French Revolutions as well as for the perceived secularization of society.

It first appeared in print in 1881 ; but it is reported that a version was already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s and similar rhymes are known from across Europe.

By the time of the industrial revolution the burn was a recognised source of power, with the first mill being established in the 1790s.

The 1790s saw the beginnings of moral treatment being introduced for people with mental distress.