Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1790
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Literature
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Man
- William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell (dated 1792)
- Helena Maria Williams, Julia: a Novel, "Sonnet to Hope," and
Letters from France
- Charlotte Lennox, Euphemia
- Amelie Opie, The Dangers of Coquetry
- Ann Radcliffe, The Sicilian Romance
- 13 July: William Wordsworth arrives in Calais with friend Robert Jones
to begin his walking tour of Europe, incldg the Alps.; they arrive just in
time for the Festival of Federation (Bastille day, held July 14)
Theatre
Art
Music
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Llavoisier develops a table of thirty-one chemical elements
- William Nicholson of England invents the rotary press
Politics & Law
- Rhode Island ratifies the U.S. Constitution, the last of the
original thirteen colonies to do so
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
(rapidly followed by a French translation)
- Select Committee of Commons hears testimony on the slave
trade
- 9 February: Edmund Burke, "Speech on the Army Estimates"
- 4 March: Henry Flood proposes Parliamentary Reform, an
elimination of the rotten boroughs
- 12 July: France: Civil constitution of the Clergy (the state
gets clergy's tithes and property)
- October: Habeas Corpus Act Suspended
- 29 November: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the
Rights of Man
- December: George Rous, Thoughts on Government
- Austria and Prussia sign the Treaty of Reichenbach
- England, Prussia, and Holland hold the Convention of Berlin
to discuss Belgium
- America passes its first patent law
Philosophy & Theology
- Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgment
Milestones
Miscellaneous
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