1790s
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Art and culture
- Étienne-Gaspard Robert opens a magic lantern theatre, the Fantasmagorie in Paris.
- Dandy
- The practice of dandyism was a counter-cultural habit that began in the revolutionary 1790s both in London and Paris.
- French Revolution (1789 - 1799). It is considered to have effectively ended on November 9, 1799 when a successful coup d'état places Napoléon Bonaparte in control of France.
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Technology
- French inventor Claude Chappe first demonstrates a practical semaphore system (1792). Use of the system will eventually expand to include the whole of France. This is considered to be the first practical telecommunications system.
- John "Iron Mad" Wilkinson's Iron madness reaches its peak.
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Visual culture
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Literature
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Fiction
- Justine (1787|1791) by Sade
- The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) - Ann Radcliffe
- Caleb Williams (1794) by William Godwin
- Journey Around My Room (1794) by Xavier de Maistre
- The Book of Urizen (1794) by William Blake
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) by William Blake
- Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795) by Sade
- L'Histoire de Juliette (1797) by Sade
- The Monk (1796) by Lewis
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Non-fiction
- Age of Reason (1794) by Thomas Paine
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
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Births
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Deaths
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on December 5th 1791.
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