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What Happened in July 1790

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Historical Events

  • Jul 9 Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet
  • Jul 12 French Revolution: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted, putting the Catholic Church in France under the control of the state

French Revolution

Jul 14 The Fête de la Fédération, attended by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, is held across France on the first anniversary of the French Revolution

King of France Louis XVI
Queen of France Marie Antoinette
  • Jul 16 Congress declares the city of Washington in the District of Columbia, the permanent capital of the United States
  • Jul 26 US Congress passes the Funding Act of 1790 making the federal government responsible for debts incurred by the states

Poet Laureate Henry James Pye

Jul 28 Henry James Pye appointed as British Poet Laureate by King George III

King of Great Britain and Ireland George III
  • Jul 31 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
Events in 1790

Famous Birthdays

  • Jul 4 George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest, born in Gwernvale, Brecknockshire, Wales (d. 1866)
Born in 1790

Famous Weddings

  • Jul 31 Danish Crown Prince Frederick (Later Frederick VI) marries his cousin Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel at Gottorp Castle

Famous Deaths

  • Jul 6 George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, Scottish general (Seven Years' War) and Governor of Gibraltar (1777-90) who commanded the garrison during the Great Siege Gibraltar, dies of palsy/stroke at 72
  • Jul 7 Frans Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher, dies at 68
  • Jul 14 Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal, dies at 73

Adam Smith (1723-1790)

Jul 17 Scottish economist (Wealth of Nations) and moral philosopher, dies at 67

Adam Smith
  • Jul 25 Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer, dies at 66
  • Jul 25 William Livingston, American politician and 1st revolutionary Governor of New Jersey, dies at 66
  • Jul 31 Johann Christian Frischmuth, German composer, dies at 48


What Happened in 1790

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