Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1790
Birthdays
- January 9 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
- March 14 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
- March 15 - Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861)
- March 29 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
- May 23 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)
- June 1 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
- July 4 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866)
- August 13 - William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872)
- October 3 - John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
- October 14 - Thursday October Christian, (d. 1831)
- October 21 - Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (d. 1869)
- October 23 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
- November 17 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
- December 16 - King Léopold I of Belgium, (d. 1865)
- December 23 - Jean François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)
Deaths
- January 13 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen
- 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 inventor
- May 4 - Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)
- May 9 - William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress
- May 16 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke
- 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 education 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)
- December 12 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733)
Events
- January 8 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.
- January 30 - The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
- February 1 - In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States attempts to convene for the first time.
- February 2 - The U.S. Supreme Court convenes for the first time.
- February 11 - Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for 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.
- May 29 - Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
- May 31 - Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
- May 31 - The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
- July 9 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund
- July 12 - The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Assembly.
- July 14 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
- July 16 - The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after the signing of the Residence Act.
- July 31 - First U.S. patent is issued to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
- August 2 - The first US Census is conducted.
- August 4 - A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
- November 1 - Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
- December 6 - The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- December 22 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
- December 26 - Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
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