1790 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

Events

January

• January 8 - 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

• 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 Congress for the abolition of slavery.

March

• 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 Washington in New York as the new secretary of state.

April

• April 10 - United States Patent system established.

May

• May 29 - Rhode Island ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 13th U.S. state.
• May 29 - Israel Putnam dies.

June

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

July

• July 9 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
• 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

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

December

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

Unknown dates

• William Pitt refuses to recognize Belgian independence.
• Construction begins on the White House.
• U.S. Funding Bill introduced by Alexander Hamilton.
• Georgetown, Maryland becomes federal capital of the U.S..

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 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)
• 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)
• Edmund Lyons, 1st Lord Lyons, British admiral (d. 1858)

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)
• John Hulse, Divine (b. 1708)

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