The impending starvation at Sydney led to a great transplantation of convicts and marines to Norfolk Island in March 1790 on HMS Sirius.

In the period lasting from about 1790 to 1860, the Mozart-era piano underwent tremendous changes that led to the modern form of the instrument.

The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800, and, after 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement.

1790 ), frontiersman and militia leader, who founded Oldtown and widened Nemacolin's Trail, which led west from Cumberland.

Sweden's dissatisfaction with the result led to fruitless attempts at recovering the lost territories in the course of the following century, such as the Russo-Swedish War ( 1741 – 1743 ), and the Russo-Swedish War ( 1788 – 1790 ).

“ Frederick Town ” was laid out by Daniel Dulany — a land speculator — in 1745 ; it was settled by a German immigrant party led by a young German Reformed schoolmaster from the Rhineland Palatinate named Johann Thomas Schley ( d. 1790 ), who came to the Maryland colony with his wife, Maria Winz.

His political activities led to his arrest on 19 May 1790, but he was released in July before the Fête de la Fédération, thanks to pressure exerted nationally by the revolutionary and journalist Jean-Paul Marat.

On January 9, 1790, Juan de Ugalde, governor of Coahuila and commandant of the Provincias Internas, led 600 men to a decisive victory over the Apaches near the site of modern Utopia at a place known then as Arroyo de la Soledad.

On 30 September 1790, Major Hamtramck led 350 men from Vincennes as far north as the Vermillion River, to engage some of the Indian villages which had been at war with Vincennes.

By 10 August 1790 there were already one hundred and fifty-two affiliated clubs ; the attempts at counter-revolution led to a great increase of their number in the spring of 1791, and by the close of the year the Jacobins had a network of branches all over France.

In October 1790 Knox organized a campaign led by General Josiah Harmar into the Northwest Territory in retaliation for Native American raids against colonial settlers in that territory and that of present-day Kentucky.

A committed Royalist, he was instrumental in putting down rebellion in Metz, and led forces that controversially crushed a military mutiny in the so-called " Nancy Affair " in August 1790, in which both soldiers and civilians were killed.

Competition between Spain and the United Kingdom over control of Nootka Sound led to a bitter international dispute around 1790, called the Nootka Crisis, which was settled with the Nootka Conventions of the 1790s, when Spain agreed to abandon its exclusive claims to the North Pacific coast.

The town acted as a gathering point or tryst for the Michaelmas cattle sale held each year and the surrounding fields and hillsides were black with the tens of thousands of cattle-some from as far away as Caithness and the Outer Hebrides ( for comparison, in 1790 the population of Crieff was about 1, 200 which led to a ratio of tens cows per person, similar to the sheep / human ratio in New Zealand ).

As an Elder of the Church of Scotland for his home parish of Cadder, he became embroiled at the beginning of 1790 in bitter dispute with the local landlords led by James Dunlop of Garnkirk, a rich coal owner.

In Autumn of 1790, Major Hamtramck was ordered to move against Indian villages on the Wabash, Vermilion, and Eel rivers to create a distraction from the campaign led by General Josiah Harmar.

The first scientific mission that visited the Galapagos was the Malaspina expedition, a Spanish expedition led by Alejandro Malaspina, who arrived in 1790.

* In 1787, the Moravian missionary, David Zeisberger, led a group of Christian-converted Native-Americans from their settlement on the Cuyahoga River, to a new settlement called first Pettquotting ( but later named ' New Salem ' in 1790 ) on the Huron River, about 3 miles north of ( now ) Milan, Ohio.

Inman Square's origins lie in the growth of East Cambridge, starting at around 1790, when a group of financiers led by Andrew Craigie began buying up land around Lechmere Point, home to present-day CambridgeSide Galleria shopping mall, in an effort to build a toll bridge over the Charles River.

In 1790, Spanish explorer Salvador Fidalgo led an expedition that included visits to the sites of today's Cordova, Alaska and Valdez, Alaska, where acts of sovereignty were performed.

Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, GCB, KCH ( 21 November 1790 – 23 November 1858 ) was a British naval commander and diplomat who led a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, culminating with the Crimean War and his appointment as Commander of the Black Sea Fleet.

His conduct in using his position as provost to secure the parliamentary representation of the university for his eldest son brought him into conflict with Duigenan, who attacked him in Lacrymae academicae, and involved him in a duel with a Mr Doyle ; while a similar attempt on behalf of his second son in 1790 led to his being accused before a select committee of the House of Commons of impropriety as returning officer.

The Nizam's army, led by Mahabat Jung, advanced to Koppal, which they besieged in October 1790.

His work with water wheels led him to work with Matthew Boulton and James Watt for whom by 1790 he was agent in Manchester.

During the summer of 1790, a Mahratta army of some 30, 000 under the command of Purseram Bhow, accompanied by a detachment of British troops from Bombay, began marching toward Mysore.

It was named for Major James Fontaine of Kentucky who was killed at Harmar's Defeat ( near modern Fort Wayne, Indiana ) on October 22, 1790, during the Northwest Indian War.

The original city of Lebanon in Kentucky was renamed as Georgetown in 1790 in honor of George Washington.

The city was incorporated on December 16, 1790, and the area became part of the new State of Kentucky when it was created in 1792.

The earliest church in the region was constituted circa 1790 by Kentucky ministers Ambrose Dudley and John Taylor.

Even though Kentucky was south of the Ohio River, it was still a part of Virginia when the Southwest Territory was organized in 1790, and it would stay part of Virginia until it became a state in 1792.

She had been in an unhappy marriage in Kentucky with Captain Lewis Robards, a man subject to irrational fits of jealous rage, and the two separated in 1790.

The Southwest Territory, which encompassed much of what is now Tennessee and Kentucky, was created in 1790 with William Blount as its first governor.

According to a 1790 U. S. government report, 1, 500 Kentucky settlers had been killed in Indian raids since the end of the Revolutionary War.

It allowed its western claims to become the state of Kentucky in 1790.

The Conquest Of The Old Southwest: The Romantic Story Of The Early Pioneers Into Virginia, The Carolinas, Tennessee And Kentucky 1740 To 1790.

Although some historians have identified Garrard as a member of the Danville Political Club, a secret debating society that was active in Danville, Kentucky, from 1786 to 1790, his name is not found in the Club's official membership records.

On December 30, 1790, Virginia Governor Beverley Randolph, possibly acting on a recommendation from Washington, appointed Scott brigadier general in the Virginia militia and gave him command of the entire District of Kentucky.

* William Singleton Young ( 1790 – 1827 ), U. S. Representative from Kentucky

* Sir Richard Butler, 7th Baronet ( 1761 – 1817 ), Irish and British MP for Carlow County 1783 – 1790 and 1796 – 1802

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

Wythe County was formed from Montgomery County in 1790.

* Letitia Christian Tyler, ( 1790 – 1842 ), born in New Kent County, first wife of president John Tyler

King and Queen County is notable as one of the few counties in the United States of America to have recorded a larger population in the 1790 census than in the 2000 one.

In 1790, Patrick Henry County was split into two counties, the western part becoming Patrick County and the rest becoming Henry County.

Bath County was established on December 14, 1790 from Augusta, Botetourt and Greenbrier counties.

Augusta County assumed its present dimensions in 1790, when its western part was combined with parts of Botetourt County and Greenbrier County to form Bath County.

* Powhatan Ellis, ( 1790 – 1863 ), born in Amherst County, justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, United States Senator from Mississippi, and minister to Mexico.

In first United States census, in 1790, York County had a population of 6, 604 ; 923 were listed as slaves, and a quarter of the county ’ s slaves belonged to just nine men.

Hamilton County was organized in 1790, as the second county in the Northwest Territory.

In 1790, Winthrop Sargent, Secretary of Northwest Territory, organized the first Indiana county, Knox County.

Columbia County, the 12th county formed in Georgia, was created by an act of the Legislature of Georgia on December 10, 1790 from Richmond County.

Theobald Mathew ( 1790 – 1856 ), an Irish teetotalist reformer, popularly known as Father Mathew was born at Thomastown, near Golden, County Tipperary, on October 10, 1790.

* First Presbyterian minister ordained in Georgia was John Springer in Wilkes County, 1790.

The Town of Cicero was formed in 1790 as a Township in the Military Tract, but was part of the Town of Lysander when Onondaga County was formed in 1794 and was separated from Lysander in 1807.

First settled in 1790, the log cabin home of the Drake family still stands from that era, and is one of the oldest buildings in Armstrong County.