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List of events
Events from the year 1790 in the United States .
Incumbents
George Washington
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
Undated
Ongoing
Births
John Tyler
January 6 –
Arnold Naudain , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1830 to 1836 (died
1872 )
January 13 –
Richard Saltonstall Rogers , shipping merchant and politician (died
1873 )
January 17 –
Powhatan Ellis , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1825 to 1826 and from 1827 to 1832 (died
1863 )
March 29 –
John Tyler , tenth
president of the United States from 1841 to 1845, tenth
vice president of the United States from March to April 1841 (died
1862 )
May 20 –
Micajah Thomas Hawkins , politician (died
1858 )
June 1 –
Chester Ashley , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1844 to 1848 (died
1848 )
July 8 –
Fitz-Greene Halleck , poet (died
1867 )
July 18 –
John Frazee , portrait sculptor (died
1852 )
October 1 –
Henry H. Chambers , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1825 to 1826 (died
1826 )
November 12 –
Letitia Christian Tyler ,
First Lady of the United States (died
1842 )
Unknown
Probable –
Lone Horn ,
Miniconjou chief (died
1875 )
Deaths
January 25 –
Meriwether Smith , Continental Congressman for Virginia (born
1730 )
January 31 –
Thomas Lewis , Virginia settler (born
1718 in Ireland )
February 20 –
Leonard Lispenard , merchant, politician and landowner (born
1714 )
March 4 –
Henry Wisner , Continental Congressman for New York (born
1720 )
March 12 –
William Grayson , Continental Congressman and U.S. Senator for Virginia (born
1740 )
April 17 –
Benjamin Franklin , publisher, inventor, congressman, ambassador, abolitionist and American icon (born
1706 )
[3]
May 4 –
Matthew Tilghman , Continental Congressman for Maryland (born
1718 )
May 9 –
William Clingan , Continental Congressman for Pennsylvania (born c.
1721 )
May 20 –
Nathan Miller , Continental Congressman for Rhode Island (born
1743 )
May 26 –
Nathaniel Folsom , Continental Congressman for New Hampshire and Revolutionary War major general (born
1726 )
May 29 –
Israel Putnam , Revolutionary War general (born
1718 )
June 1 –
Theodorick Bland , Continental Congressman and U.S. Representative for Virginia (born
1741 )
July 25 –
William Livingston , signer of the U.S. Constitution and Governor of New Jersey from 1776 to 1790 (born
1723 )
August 16 –
David Brearley , Revolutionary War colonel, signer of the U.S. Constitution for New Jersey and federal judge (born
1745 )
October 14 –
William Hooper , signer of the Declaration of Independence (born
1742 )
October 19 –
Lyman Hall , signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Georgia from 1783 to 1784 (born
1724 )
October 31 –
Michael Schlatter , Swiss-born clergyman (born
1716 )
November 6 –
James Bowdoin , Governor of Massachusetts (born
1726 )
November 16 –
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer , Continental Congressman and signer of the U.S. Constitution for Maryland (born
1723 )
November 27 –
Robert Livingston , member of the New York colonial assembly from 1737 to 1758 (born
1708 )
December 16 –
Benjamin Andrew , Continental Congressman for Georgia and member of the Georgia House of Representatives (born
1713 )
Unknown –
John Hawks , architect (born c.
1731 in England)
See also
References
Further reading
Charles E. Little (1900),
"America: 1790" , Cyclopedia of Classified Dates , New York: Funk & Wagnalls
Charles Evans (1914).
"1790" . American Bibliography . Vol. 8. Chicago: Columbia Press. pp. 1–111.
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