1795–1820 in Western fashion Assemblée, founded by John Bell, was a British women's magazine published from 1806 to 1837. It was best known for its fashion plates of Regency era styles, showing how women should dress and behave. When fashion became available for everybody, people were expected to dress according to the latest fashion. Dressmakers would show the fashion-plates to their customers, so that customers could catch up to the latest styles. 1790s: 1800s: 1810s: 1820s: In this period, fashionable women's clothing styles were based on the Empire silhouette — dresses were closely fitted to the torso just under the bust, falling loosely below.
Germany in the early modern period occurred in 1795–1814, during the latter part of the era of the French Revolution and then the Napoleonic Era. "Mediatisation" was the process of annexing the lands of one sovereign monarchy to another, often leaving the annexed some rights. "Secularisation" was the redistribution to secular states of the secular lands held by an ecclesiastical ruler such as a bishop or an abbot. The Empire was formally dissolved on 6 August 1806 when the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (from 1804, Emperor Francis I of Austria) abdicated, following a military defeat by the French under Napoleon (see Treaty of Pressburg).