1790 in Great Britain:

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Sport

1790 English cricket season

Events from the year 1790 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

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]

Publications

• 1 November - Edmund Burke work Reflections on the Revolution in France.^[5]

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)

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)

References

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