List of 1790 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1790
Date | Event |
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January 8, 1790 | George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City. |
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. |
April 7, 1790 | Greek War of Independence: Greek revolutionary Lambros Katsonis loses three of his ships in the Battle of Andros. |
May 29, 1790 | Rhode Island becomes the last of North America's original Thirteen Colonies to ratify the Constitution and become one of the United States. |
May 31, 1790 | Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca. |
May 31, 1790 | The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790. |
July 9, 1790 | The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic fleet. |
July 12, 1790 | The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly. |
July 14, 1790 | Inaugural Fête de la Fédération is held to celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation. |
July 16, 1790 | The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act. |
July 31, 1790 | The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process. |
August 2, 1790 | The first United States Census is conducted. |
August 4, 1790 | A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard). |
August 14, 1790 | The Treaty of Wereloe ended the 1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War. |
September 25, 1790 | Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday. |
October 9, 1790 | A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand. |
October 22, 1790 | Northwest Indian War: Native American forces defeat the United States, ending the Harmar Campaign. |
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. |
December 17, 1790 | The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City. |
December 22, 1790 | The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Alexander Suvorov and his Russian armies. |
December 26, 1790 | Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution. |
December 31, 1790 | Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time. |