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Template:C18YearInTopicX 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 1 Events of 1790 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Notes

[edit] Events of 1790

[edit] 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. Then later he finds his mother.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Ongoing events

• French Revolution (1789-1799).
• Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792.

[edit] Births

1790 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1790 MDCCXC
Ab urbe condita	2543
Armenian calendar	1239 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-54 – -53
Buddhist calendar	2334
Coptic calendar	1506 – 1507
Ethiopian calendar	1782 – 1783
Hebrew calendar	5550 – 5551
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1845 – 1846
- Shaka Samvat	1712 – 1713
- Kali Yuga	4891 – 4892
Holocene calendar	11790
Iranian calendar	1168 – 1169
Islamic calendar	1204 – 1205
Japanese calendar	Kansei 2 (寛政 2年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2450 (皇紀2450年)
Julian calendar	1835
Korean calendar	4123
Thai solar calendar	2333
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• 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 :Category: 1790 births.

[edit] 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 :Category: 1790 deaths.

[edit] Notes

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

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