1791 – 1795 – The Vancouver Expedition
Events
- 1791: Suppression of the Liège Revolution by Austrian forces and re-establishment of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
- 1791–1795: George Vancouver explores the world during the Vancouver Expedition.
- 1791–1804: The Haitian Revolution.
- 1791: Mozart premieres The Magic Flute.
- 1792–1802: The French Revolutionary Wars lead into the Napoleonic Wars, which last from 1803–1815.
- 1792: The New York Stock & Exchange Board is founded.
- 1792: Polish–Russian War of 1792.
- 1792: Margaret Ann Neve (1792–1903) would become the first recorded female supercentenarian to reach the age of 110.
- 1793: Upper Canada bans slavery.
- 1793: The largest yellow fever epidemic in American history kills as many as 5,000 people in Philadelphia, roughly 10% of the population.
- 1793–1796: Revolt in the Vendée against the French Republic at the time of the Revolution.
- 1794–1816: The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars, which were a series of incidents between settlers and New South Wales Corps and the Aboriginal Australian clans of the Hawkesbury river in Sydney, Australia.
- 1795: The Marseillaise is officially adopted as the French national anthem.1795: The Battle of Nuʻuanu in the final days of King Kamehameha I‘s wars to unify the Hawaiian Islands.
- 1795–1796: Iran invades and devastates Georgia, prompting Russia to intervene and march on Tehran.
- 1796: Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination; smallpox killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year during the 18th century, including five reigning monarchs.
- 1796: War of the First Coalition: The Battle of Montenotte marks Napoleon Bonaparte‘s first victory as an army commander.
- 1796: The British eject the Dutch from Ceylon and South Africa.
- 1796–1804: The White Lotus Rebellion against the Manchu dynasty in China.
- 1798: The Irish Rebellion fails to overthrow British rule in Ireland.
- 1798–1800: The Quasi-War is fought between the United States and France.
- 1799: Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
- 1799: Austro-Russian forces under Alexander Suvorov liberates much of Italy and Switzerland from French occupation.
- 1799: Coup of 18 Brumaire – Napoleon‘s coup d’etat brings the end of the French Revolution.
- 1799: Death of the Qianlong Emperor after 60 years of rule over China. His favorite official, Heshen, is ordered to commit suicide.
Musical works
- 1791: The Magic Flute, opera by Mozart
- 1791–1795: London symphonies by Haydn
- 1798: The Pathétique, piano sonata by Beethoven
- 1798: The Creation, oratorio by Haydn first performed
Literary and philosophical achievements
- 1790: Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow by Alexander Radishchev
- 1790: Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
- 1791: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
- 1792: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
- 1794: Songs of Experience by William Blake
- 1798: Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 1798: An Essay on the Principle of Population published by Thomas Malthus
- (mid–18th century): The Dream of the Red Chamber (authorship attributed to Cao Xueqin), one of the most famous Chinese novels
