History
1790
General
Population: 980 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Robert Burns Tam O'Shanter, Edmund Burke (French revolution), Andre de Chenier (France), Kant (philosophy),
James Bruce (Nile exploration), Goethe, Alexander Raditcheff (emancipation of Russian serfs)
Art includes Guardi "Gondola on the Lagoon"
Music includes Mozart
- Exploration: Grey finishes circumnavigation
- Science: Lavoisier writes table of 31 elements
- Technology: First steam-powered iron rolling mill built
- Deaths: Benjamin Franklin, Heroine Flora MacDonald, Pedagogue John Bernhard Basedow, Poet Thomas Warton, Emperor Joseph II, Artist Charles Nicolas Cochin,
Economist Adam Smith
Africa
- Morocco: End of reign of Sidi Mohammed
Americas
- Canada: George Vancouver the British officer explores Pacific coast
- Haiti: St. Dominique) Revolt against French rule led by Toussaint L'Ouverture
Asia
- India: famous Poji Bara (Skull Famine) results in cannibalism - Drought, famine, and cannibalism
- Mysore: Third Mysore War begins (2 years)
Europe
- General: Treaty of Wereloe ends Russo-Swedish war
- Belgium: End of United Belgian States with invasion of Austria
- France: Festival of Champ de Mars in Paris – Louis XVI accepts the constitution
Jews granted civil liberties
French clergy reduced by assembly
- German States: Reichenbach Conference between Austria and Prussia
- Great Britain: Lt. Bligh of the Bounty returns to England
William Pitt refuses to recognize Belgium independence
British alliance with the Nizam of Hyderabad
Royal Literary Fund initiated by David Williams
Building of Firth-Clyde and Oxford-Birmingham canals begins
First steam-powered rolling mill built in England
English show opposition to French revolution
- Holy Roman Empire: Death of Emperor Joseph II and Leopold II rules
Austrians in Brussels suppress Belgian revolution
- Poland: Cedes Thorn and Danzig to Prussia
- Russia: Treaty with Sweden
Alexander Raditcheff calls for freedom for poor and serfs
- Sweden: Treaty with Russia
Middle East
Pacific
- Hawaii: Kilauea explodes killing division of Hawaiian army
- Pitcarin Island: Mutiny on the Bounty sailors colonize the island
President:
Pres: George Washington
General
- Abolition: Quakers petition US federal government to abolish slavery
- Americana: Philadelphia becomes federal capital of US
Washington D.C. founded
Betsy Ross flag created
- Business: Slater builds US cotton factory
- Entertainment: First musical competition in America
- Finance: US Funding Bill introduced by Alexander Hamilton
US law protects "patents" for 14 years
Government millions of dollars in debt
- Law: First session of US Supreme Court
- Natives: George Washington starts alliance with NW Indians
Treaty with Creek Tribe
- Religion: "Second Great Awakening" begins
East
- Maryland: First Roman Catholic bishop consecrated in America – John Carroll of Baltimore
- Pennsylvania: Philadelphia becomes federal capital of US
Brokers meet in Philadelphia to buy and sell publicly-traded securities and war bonds – start of stock market
- Rhode Island: Rhode Island becomes 13th state
- Washington DC: Washington D.C. founded
West and Pacific
- General: English naval officer George Vancouver explores US west coast