What Happened in October 1790

Historical Events

Oct 18 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling is granted permission to enroll at the Tübinger Stift at an earlier age than usually permitted

Oct 3 John Ross [Guwisguwi], Scottish-Cherokee leader (Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, 1828-66), born in Turkeytown, Cherokee Territory (now Alabama) (d. 1866)
Oct 8 Waldemar Thrane, Norwegian violinist, composer (Fjeldeventyret), and conductor, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1828)
Oct 14 Georg Gerson, Danish composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1825)
Oct 14 Thursday October Christian, son of Fletcher Christian (leader of the historical mutiny on the Bounty), born in Pitcairn Island (d. 1831)
Oct 21 Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (Poetical Mediations) and politician (briefly led the Second Republic 1848), born in Mâcon, France (d. 1869)
Oct 22 Jan Ackersdijk, Dutch political economist, born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (d. 1861)
Oct 23 Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
Oct 30 Karol Joseph Lipinski, Polish composer and virtuoso violinist, born in Radzyń Podlaski, Poland (d. 1861)
Oct 30 Rinse Posthumus, Frisian writer and poet, born in Ternaard, Friesland (d. 1859)

Oct 14 William Hooper, American attorney and signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence, dies at 48
Oct 19 Lyman Hall, American physician and signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 66
Oct 29 Pieter van Bleiswijk, Grand pensionary of Holland 1771-87, dies at about 66