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Year '1790' ('MDCCXC') was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday^[1]
of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of 1790

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Notes

Events of 1790

January - June

★ January 8 - U.S. President George Washington gives the first State of the Union Address.

★ January 30 - The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.

★ February 1 - In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.

★ February 4 - Louis XVI of France declares to the National Assembly that he will maintain the constitutional laws.

★ February 11 - Religious Society of Friends petitions the United States Congress for the abolition of slavery.

★ March 1 - The first United States census is authorized.

★ March 4 - France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces, in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.

★ March 21 - Thomas Jefferson reported to President George Washington in New York as the new Secretary of State of the United States.


★ April 10 - United States Patent system is established.

★ April 17 - Ben Franklin dies at age 84.

★ May 13 - Battle of Reval: King Gustav III of Sweden sent the battlefleet to eliminate the Russian squadron wintering at Reval (Estonia), but is defeated: killing 8 Russians, 51 Swedes are killed, 250 captured, and 2 ships are sunk.

★ May 29 - Rhode Island ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 13th U.S. state.

★ June 20 - the famous dinner at the Jefferson Residence where Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton decided a compromise: Madison agreed to vote for the assumption of state debts by the federal government; Hamilton agreed to vote for the capitol to be above the Potomac. (Compromise of 1790)

★ June 23 - Alleged London Monster arrested in London: he later receives two years for three assaults.

July - December

★ July 9 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - In a massive Baltic Sea battle of 300 ships, the Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet: 304 Swedes killed, 3500 Russians killed, 6000 captured, 51 Russian ships sunk & 22 taken.

★ July 14 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.

★ July 16 - The signing of the Residence Bill establishes a site along the Potomac River as the District of Columbia (seat of government) of the United States (see Washington, DC).

★ July 31 - Inventor Samuel Hopkins becomes the first to be issued a U.S. patent (for an improved method of making potash).

★ August 4 - A newly passed U.S. tariff act creates the ''Revenue Cutter Service'' (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).

★ December 11 - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792: 26,000 Turkish soldiers lose their lives during Suvorov's storm of Izmail.

Undated

★ Prime Minister of Great Britain William Pitt refuses to recognize Belgian independence.

★ Construction begins on the White House.

★ U.S. Funding Bill is introduced by Alexander Hamilton.

★ Georgetown, Maryland becomes federal capital of the United States.

★ The first United States Census is taken.

Ongoing events

★ French Revolution (1789-1799).

★ Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792.

Births

★ March 29 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)

★ May 20 - Micajah Thomas Hawkins, American politician (d. 1858)

★ May 23 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)

★ June 1 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)

★ September 6 - John Green Crosse, English surgeon (d. 1850)

★ November 17 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1868)

★ November 21 - Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, British admiral (d. 1858)

★ December 8 - Augustus Meineke, German Classical Scholar (d. 1870)

★ December 16 - Léopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)

★ December 19 - William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (d. 1855)

★ December 23 - Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)

★ ''probable'' - Lone Horn, Minneconjou chief (d.1875)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 13 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)

★ January 15 - John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)

★ January 31 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718)

★ February 5 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)

★ February 20 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)

★ March 12 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1710)

★ April 17 - Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and statesman (b. 1706)

★ May 4 - Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman (b. 1718)

★ May 9 - William Clingan, American Continental Congressman

★ May 16 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)

★ May 21 - Thomas Warton, English poet (b. 1728)

★ May 29 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1718)

★ July 3 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736)

★ July 7 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)

★ July 14 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)

★ July 17 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)

★ July 25 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (b. 1723)

★ July 25 - William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)

★ September 2 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (b. 1701)

★ October 19 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)

★ November 6 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)

★ November 16 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)

★ ''date unknown'' - John Hulse, English clergyman (b. 1708)
: ''See also .''

Notes

1.
"Calendar for year 1790 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar),
Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage:
Julian1790.