* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* 1724 – Lyman Hall, American physician, clergyman, and statesman, signer of United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1790 )

* 1790 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician ( d. 1872 )

* 1790 – The first US Census is conducted.

* Wiguläus von Kreittmayr ( 1705 – 1790 ): by marriage Lord of Offenstetten and Hatzkofen

* 1726 – James Bowdoin, American politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1790 )

* 1790 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1790 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service ( the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard ).

* 1767 – Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg ( d. 1790 )

* Two poets, Johann Peter Uz ( 1720 – 1796 ) and August von Platen-Hallermünde ( 1790 – 1835 ), were also born there.

* Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790 Text of biography by Rev.

But John Austin ( 1790 – 1859 ), an early positivist, applied utilitarianism in accepting the calculating nature of human beings and the existence of an objective morality.

The town was finally reconstructed by sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah ( 1756 – 1790 ), the grandson of Moulay Ismail and ally of George Washington with the help of Spaniards from the nearby emporium.

* 1790 – King Leopold I of Belgium ( d. 1865 )

* 1790 – The U. S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* 1790 – Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.

* 1721 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher ( d. 1790 )

David Brewster was born at the Canongate in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire to Margaret Key ( 1753 – 1790 ) and James Brewster ( c. 1735 – 1815 ), the rector of Jedburgh Grammar School and a teacher of high reputation.

* 1865 – King Leopold I of Belgium ( b. 1790 )

* 1790 – The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.

* 1730 – Capel Bond, English organist and composer ( d. 1790 )

Major ENSO events were recorded in the years 1790 – 93, 1828, 1876 – 78, 1891, 1925 – 26, 1972 – 73, 1982 – 83, 1997 – 98 and 2009 – 2010, with 1997-1998 being one of the strongest ever.

* December 27 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher ( d. 1790 )

* Captain Smith vs François André Philidor, London, England 1790, Bishop's Opening: Berlin Defense ( C24 ), 0 – 1 Good sample of Philidor's ideas about pawns ; plus a nice mating combination at the end

François Hemsterhuis ( 27 December 1721 – 7 July 1790 ) was a Dutch writer on aesthetics and moral philosophy.

* François Dubois ( XIX century ) ( 1790 – 1871 ) neoclassical French painter

* December 27-François Hemsterhuis, moral philosopher ( died 1790 )

Eilardus Westerlo ( 1738 – 1790 ), who was minister of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church ( now called The First Church ) in Albany, NY, from 1760 to 1790.

From a population of 1000-2000 Jewish residents in 1790, mostly Dutch Sephardic Jews, Jews from England, and British subjects, the American Jewish community grew to about 15, 000 by 1840, and to about 250, 000 by 1880.

Fort Amsterdam ( subsequently named Fort James, Fort Willem Hendrick, Fort James ( again ), Fort William, Fort Anne and Fort George ) was a fort on the southern tip of Manhattan that was the administrative headquarters for the Dutch and then British rule of New York from 1625 until being torn down in 1790 after the American Revolution.

The King of Spain also gave some Escurials to the Dutch government in 1790 ; these thrived in the Dutch Cape Colony ( South Africa ).

Schlözer was a versatile historian giving lectures on a range of issues including Oliver Cromwell, the Dutch revolution, banks, the French Revolution ( already in 1790 ), luxury, and the history of Germans in Romania, while continuing publishing on Russian history.

Hoyle's writing was translated into many continental languages ; first Portuguese ( 1753 ), then German ( 1754 ), French ( 1761 ), Italian ( 1768 ), Russian ( 1769 ) and Dutch ( 1790 ).

In 1790 he was released from Dutch service with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

It was made seat of the Dutch colonial government in 1790.

Coat of arms of the County of ArtoisThe counts of Artois ( French: Comtes d ' Artois, Dutch: Graven van Artesië ) were the rulers over the County of Artois from the 9th century until the abolition of the countship by the French revolutionaries in 1790.

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh ( February 22, 1736 – 30 October 1790 ) was a Dutch Reformed minister and the first President of Queen's College ( now Rutgers University ) from 1785 to his death in 1790.

* 1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist ( d. 1790 )

* 1733 – Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer ( d. 1790 )

* Adam Smith ( 1723 – 1790 ) Scottish economist and philosopher.

* June 5 – ( baptised ) Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher ( d. 1790 )

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), legal and political theorist who wrote The Province of Jurisprudence Determined

In 1790 Chaumette reviewed the work of Saint-Martin, a French Catholic philosopher wishing for a theocratic society in which the most devout people would commission and guide the rest of the population.

After the publication of statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ), in which he surprisingly broke ranks with his liberal Whig colleagues to support the French aristocracy, a pamphlet war discussing the Revolution began in earnest.

The politician and philosopher Edmund Burke, in his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ), tied natural philosophers, and specifically Priestley, to the French Revolution, writing that radicals who supported science in Britain " considered man in their experiments no more than they do mice in an air pump ".

Adam Smith ( 1723 – 1790 ) is a moral philosopher, author and economics pioneer.

The essence of the idea of morphology was initially expressed in the writings of the great poet and philosopher Goethe ( 1790 ); the term as such was first used in bioscience.