1790 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1790?
- January 30, 1790 – The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
- February 1, 1790 – In New York City, the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
- February 11, 1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.
- March 1, 1790 – The first United States census is authorized.
- March 4, 1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
- May 29, 1790 – 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, 1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
- July 9, 1790 – Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund – in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
- July 12, 1790 – The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
- July 14, 1790 – French Revolution: citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
- July 31, 1790 – The very first U.S. patent is issued: to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
- August 2, 1790 – The first US Census is conducted.
- August 4, 1790 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
- October 22, 1790 – Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
- November 1, 1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
- December 6, 1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- December 22, 1790 – The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
- December 31, 1790 – Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today is published for the first time.
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