1790s
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- 1790 - Prince Williams, a freed slave from South Carolina, goes to Nassau, Bahamas, where he will start Bethel Meeting House
- 1791 - One hundred and twenty Korean Christians are tortured and killed for their faith. It began when Paul Yun Ji-Chung, a noble who had become a Christian, decided not to bury his mother according to traditional Confucian custom.
- 1792 - William Carey writes Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to use means for the conversion of the heathen and forms the Baptist Missionary Society to support him in establishing missionary work in India.
- 1972 - Charles G. Finney born in in Warren, Connecticut, USA.
- 1793 - Frontier missionary Stephen Badin
- 1794 - Eight Russian Orthodox missionaries arrive in Alaska
- 1795 - The London Missionary Society is formed to send missionaries to Tahiti
- 1796 - Scottish and Glasgow Missionary Societies established; In India, Johann Philipp Fabricius finishes translating entire Bible into Tamil
- 1797 - Netherlands Missionary Society formed; The Duff, carrying 37 lay and pastoral missionaries, drops anchor in Tahiti; The first Christian missionary (from the London Missionary Society) visits Hiva on the Pacific island of Tahuata; he is not well received.
- 1798 - Napoleon invades Egypt.
- 1798 - The Missionary Society of Connecticut is organized by the Congregationalists to take the gospel to the "heathen lands" of Vermont and Ohio. Its missionaries evangelized both European settlers and Native Americans.
- 1799 - The Church Missionary Society (Church of England) is formed; John Vanderkemp, Dutch physician goes to Cape Colony, Africa; Religious Tract Society organized
