1790 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1790 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory
[edit] Events
- 1 January - 91-mile Coventry to Oxford Canal opened.[1]
- 30 January - The first boat specialised as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.[2]
- 14 March - William Bligh arrives back in Britain with the first report of the Mutiny on the Bounty.[2]
- 16 June–28 July - A general election is held, giving Pitt an increased majority.[1]
- 23 June - Alleged London Monster arrested in London: he later receives two years for three assaults.
- 28 June - Forth and Clyde Canal opened.[1]
- 4 July - Third Anglo-Mysore War: In India, Britain allies with the Nizam of Hyderabad against the Mysore.[3]
- 27 July - The Treaty of Reichenbach is signed between Britain, Prussia, Russia and the Dutch Republic allowing Austria to retake the Austrian Netherlands.[3]
- 4 August - Lord North becomes Earl of Guildford upon the death of his father and moves from the House of Commons to the House of Lords.[4]
[edit] Publications
[edit] Births
- 2 February - William Elford Leach, zoologist and marine biologist (d. 1836)
- 6 September - John Green Crosse, surgeon (d. 1850)
- 21 November - Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, admiral (d. 1858)
- 19 December - William Edward Parry, Arctic explorer (d. 1855)
[edit] Deaths
- 15 January - John Landen, mathematician (born 1719)
- 20 January - John Howard, prison reformer (born 1726)
- 5 February - William Cullen, physician and chemist (born 1710)
- 4 March - Flora MacDonald, Jacobite (born 1722)
- 16 May - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, politician (born 1720)
- 21 May - Thomas Warton, poet (born 1728)
- 17 July - Adam Smith, economist and philosopher (born 1723)
- 4 August - Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford, peer and politician (born 1704)
- 24 November - Robert Henry, historian (born 1718)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 230-231. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 341–342. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ John Adolphus (1841). The History of England: From the Accession to the Decease of King George the Third 572. John Lee. Retrieved on 2008-02-21.
- ^ (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
[edit] See also
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