- 1790 in Great Britain
Events from the year
1790 in theKingdom of Great Britain .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -William Pitt the Younger ,Tory Events
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1 January - 91-mileCoventry toOxford Canal opened.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 230-231|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*30 January - The firstboat specialised as a lifeboat is tested on theRiver Tyne .cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*14 March -William Bligh arrives back in Britain with the first report of theMutiny on the Bounty .
*16 June –28 July - A general election is held, giving Pitt an increased majority.
*23 June - AllegedLondon Monster arrested inLondon : he later receives two years for three assaults.
*28 June -Forth and Clyde Canal opened.
*4 July -Third Anglo-Mysore War : InIndia , Britain allies with theNizam of Hyderabad against theMysore .cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=341–342]
*27 July - TheTreaty of Reichenbach is signed between Britain,Prussia ,Russia and theDutch Republic allowingAustria to retake theAustrian Netherlands .
*4 August - Lord North becomesEarl of Guildford upon the death of his father and moves from the House of Commons to theHouse of Lords . [cite web|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mUtJAAAAMAAJ|title=The History of England: From the Accession to the Decease of King George the Third|pages=572|author=John Adolphus|publisher=John Lee|date=1841|accessdate=2008-02-21]Publications
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1 November -Edmund Burke work "Reflections on the Revolution in France ". [cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 ]Births
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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)Deaths
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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)References
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