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Born in 1790:
German mathematician
Karl Weierstrass
.
French Egyptologist
Jean-François Champollion
, decipherer of
The Rosetta Stone
.
John Tyler
, tenth
President of the United States
.
Southern American writer
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
(uncle of the
Civil War general
).
German mathematician
August Ferdinand Möbius
.
French poet and
1848
radical
Alphonse de Lamartine
.
Scottish naval engineer
Patrick Matthews
, whose
1831
treatise on naval timber contained a theory much like that of
natural selection
.
Russian painter
Karl Bryullov
.
French biologist
Jean Prévost
.
The future King
Leopold I
of
Belgium
.
Venezuelan revolutionary
José Antonio Páez
, who broke
Venezuela
out of
Simon Bolivar
's
Gran Colombia
.
British arctic explorer Sir
William Edward Parry
.
Italian guitar composer
Gabriello Melia
.
Died in 1790:
American statesman, scientist, ambassador, publisher, inventor, and wit
Benjamin Franklin
.
Scottish philosopher and economist
Adam Smith
.
Emperor
Joseph II
of
Austria
. His brother
Leopold II
succeeds him.
Flora MacDonald
, who helped smuggle
Charles Edward Stewart
out of Scotland after the
1746
Battle of Culloden
.
English prison reformer
John Howard
.
Japanese poet
Karai Senryu
.
Prince
Nikolaus Esterházy
.
Franz Josef Haydn
, now a
free agent
, moves to
Vienna
.
English composer
Capel Bond
.
Events of 1790:
(May 29)
Rhode Island
is the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the
United States Constitution
.
The
Census 1790
first
United States Census
counts 3,929,625 people, including 697,624
slaves
.
The "
Compromise of 1790
". In return for locating a new Capital city on the Potomac River (in the two
slave states
,
Maryland
and
Virginia
), Southern congressmen agree to:
Federal assumption of state debt
An
excise tax
on liquor
A
copyright act
Methodist
founder
John Wesley
publishes his own translation of the
New Testament
.
Sweden
and
Russia
fight
two large battles (
Viborg Bay
, July 3 and
Svenskund
, July 9-10) in the
Gulf of Finland
. Although Russia's navy was decimated, Sweden exhausted itself, and failed to gain any territory.
Thomas Jefferson
publishes an
autobiography
as well as a work reconciling the differences between British and American
Weights and Measures
.
More activity in and about
France
.
The
National Assembly
abolishes
tithes
and confiscates the land owned by the
Catholic Church
.
The
nobility
is stripped
of all titles. 16-year old
Louis Philippe
de
Bourbon
joins the
Jacobin Club
.
A set of administrative units (
départements
) is set up.
The Faction led by
Maxamillien Robespierre
takes over
the Jacobin Club.
The
Marquis de Sade
is released
from prison, and happily joins the
Paris Sections
.
The
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
means elected bishops and priests.
Edmund Burke
publishes his
Reflections on the Revolution in France
in which he declares "
The age of chivalry is gone...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever"
.
1789
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1790
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1791
1791
1789
Theobald Mathew
Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough
Emergency Medical Service
Fitzroy Square
Rochambeau
Germantown, Maryland
fire ship
Major Oak
Working for a Car Dealership compromises my soul every day
Marie Antoinette
Maximilien Robespierre
Thomas Jefferson
Joseph C. Fitzpatrick
Wisent
1286
decorticate posturing
John Adams's 1798 State of the Union Address
George Washington's 1794 State of the Union Address
George Washington's 1790 State of the Union Address
Radicalism in Scotland
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Edmund Burke