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| 1789 |
| | French doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposes a decapitation machine as a more humane form of capital punishment | |
| | Marie Antoinette kneeling before the guillotine, 1793 Wellcome Library, London
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| 1789 |
| | Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against the captain, William Bligh | |
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| 1789 |
| | Francisco de Goya is appointed court painter to the new Spanish king, Charles IV | |
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| 1790 |
| | Mozart's opera Così fan Tutte has its premiere in Vienna, in the court theatre of Joseph II | |
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| c. 1790 |
| | A second great revivalist movement sweeps northeast America, inspired by the earlier example of Jonathan Edwards | |
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| 1790 |
| | Joseph Haydn sets off for England, where impresario Johann Peter Salomon presents his London symphonies | |
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| 1790 |
| | A second fleet arrives in Sydney, bringing more convicts and a regiment, the New South Wales Corps, to keep order | |
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| 1790 |
| | The Potomac is chosen as the navigable river on which the new US capital city will be sited | |
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| 1790 |
| | The USA becomes the first nation to establish a regular census as a systematic check on the size of the population | |
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| 1790 |
| | Anglo-Irish politician Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, a blistering attack on recent events across the Channel | |
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