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| 1791 |
| | | Scottish poet Robert Burns publishes Tam o' Shanter, in which a drunken farmer has an alarming encounter with witches | |
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| 1791 |
| | | The Ordnance Survey is founded in Britain, to make detailed maps of the country for military purposes | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Naval officer George Vancouver sails from Britain on the voyage which will bring him to the northwest coast of America | |
|  | Whalebone club brought back by Vancouver
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
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| 1791 |
| | | Thomas Paine publishes the first part of The Rights of Man, his reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France | |
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| c. 1792 |
| | | Scottish painter Henry Raeburn depicts the Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch | |
|  | Raeburn, The Reverend Robert Walker Skating (detail)
National Gallery of Scotland
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| 1792 |
| | | Charlotte Square in Edinburgh begins to be built to the design of Robert Adam | |
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| 1792 |
| | | English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a passionately feminist work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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| 1792 |
| | | Thomas Paine moves hurriedly to France, to escape a charge of treason in England for opinions expressed in his Rights of Man | |
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| 1792 |
| | | George III sends Lord Macartney on an embassy to the Chinese emperor Qianlong | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Britain joins other European nations in war against France, mainly in naval engagements in the West Indies and Atlantic | |
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