When the first Nootka Convention ended the crisis in 1790, Vancouver was given command of Discovery to take possession of Nootka Sound and to survey the coasts.

When switching from 700 stadia per degree to 500, he ( or Marinos ) expanded longitude differences between cities accordingly ( a point first realized by P. Gosselin in 1790 ), resulting in serious over-stretching of the Earth's east-west scale in degrees, though not distance.

When the Constituent Assembly, on 26 February 1790, decreed the division of France into départments, Anjou and the Saumurois, with the exception of certain territories, formed the départment of Maine-et-Loire, as at present constituted.

When the U. S. government moved back to Philadelphia in 1790, the city, in an attempt to convince the federal government not to move to Washington, was determined to provide luxurious accommodations at Congress Hall, the recently constructed building where Congress was to meet.

When Hamilton, a centrally located port founded in 1790, became the seat of government in 1815, it was partly resultant from the Royal Navy having invested twelve years, following American independence, in charting Bermuda's reefs.

When the first mine in Zabrze became operational in 1790, the town became an important mining center.

When it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790 however it received critical acclaim.

When the first census of Dorchester was taken in 1790, there were 175 residents.

When his father was elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand succeeded him as Grand Duke of Tuscany, officially taking the office on 22 July 1790.

When news of his death reached England, in February 1790, several John Howard halfpennies were struck, including one with the engraving " Go forth, Remember the Debtors in Gaol ".

When Jane reached 21 in 1790 Perceval ’ s career was still not prospering, and Sir Thomas still opposed the marriage.

When Burma and China resumed a diplomatic relationship in 1790, the Qing unilaterally viewed the act as Burmese submission, and claimed victory.

When Henry Kellett reorganized the official British Admiralty charts in 1847, he removed Wilkes ' name MacDonough and bestowed the name Camano, which the Spanish had originally given to Admiralty Inlet in 1790.

When Phelps and Gorham defaulted on their 1790 installment, the preemptive right to lands of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase west of the Genesee River, comprising some, reverted back to Massachusetts on March 10, 1791.

When he was stateside, he often found himself in Philadelphia, the capital of the new country during the years 1790 through 1800.

When the Hope Mills burned in 1790, the grist mills were rebuilt as the New Hope Mills by Benjamin Parry.

When William Grayson died in 1790, Walker was appointed to the United States Senate to serve from March 31 to November 9 of that year, when a successor was elected by the Virginia General Assembly.

When Congress passed the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, they called for a new permanent capital of the United States to be located on the Potomac River.

When Jefferson ran into Hamilton at President Washington's residence in New York City in late June 1790, Jefferson offered to host a dinner to bring Madison and Hamilton together.

When Richard Burke wrote to Fitzwilliam on 29 July 1790 to persuade him to turn Fox against Sheridan ( who had split from Edmund Burke in February ), Fitzwilliam replied on 8 August that he agreed that " the propriety of entering a caveat against the enthusiasm, or the ambition of any man whatever leading us into the trammels of Dr Price, Parson Horne, or any reverend or irreverend speculator in politics " but Fitzwilliam's letter to Fox did not change his behaviour.

When created in 1790, the District comprised of land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia.

When French départements were created in 1790, Couserans could have joined with Comminges to form a département, as history and geography suggested, but Saint-Girons and Saint-Gaudens ( the largest town of Comminges ) could not agree on which town would be the préfecture ( capital ).

When the ensemble of the Assignation Bank was completed in 1790, Quarenghi apparently believed it to be his major success, and in 1791 he assisted in publishing the album of 8 engravings of the new complex: layouts, façades, sections and a fence draft.

When Henry Flood introduced a motion for parliamentary reform, Windham famously said on 4 March 1790: " What, would Mr. Flood recommend you to repair your house in this hurricane season?

When the comte de Provence arrived in the Low Countries, he proclaimed himself de facto regent of France.

When Henry died, the castle remained in the possession of Richard I (" the Lionheart "), who offered it to the Aubigny family line under William III comte de Sussex.

When Charles X, after retracting the hated ordinances, sent the comte d ' Argout to Laffitte to negotiate a change of ministry, the banker replied, " It is too late.

When the comte de Chambord refused the compromise, he moved the resolution to extend the executive power for ten years to Marshal MacMahon.

When he arrived there, he was sent by Napoleon to the city of Wilna, where the Tsar was ; the comte de Narbonne-Lara was the bearer of an ultimatum, to which Alexander I categorically refused.

When he graduated, he served as aide-de-camp to Gaston, comte d ' Eu.

When Coleridge travelled to Chamonix, he declaimed, in defiance of Shelley, who had signed himself " Atheos " in the guestbook of the Hotel de Londres near Montenvers, " Who would be, who could be an atheist in this valley of wonders ".

When Calatayud fell, he took Bubierca, Alhama de Aragón, Ariza, and Daroca ( 1120 ).

When van de Velde was forced to resign in 1915 because he was Belgian, he suggested Gropius, Hermann Obrist and August Endell as possible successors.

When the crowd — eventually reinforced by mutinous gardes françaises — proved a fair match for the fort's defenders, Governor de Launay, the commander of the Bastille, capitulated and opened the gates to avoid a mutual massacre.

When the messenger had finished, the French general reportedly announced " Nous n ' avons plus de flotte: eh bien.

When Colonel de Gaulle did organize a counter-attack with superior French tanks, he did not have the air support to gain the upper hand and had to retreat.

When over 25, 000 of these royalists — led by General Danican — assaulted Paris, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras was appointed to defend the capital ; outnumbered five to one and disorganized, the Republicans were desperate.

When Stalin died on 5 March 1953, Georgy Malenkov, a Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers succeeded him as Chairman and as the de facto leading figure of the Presidium ( the renamed Politburo ).

When Louis XVI was executed on 21 January 1793, another man had already died as well — Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau.

When Republican Rome turned into a de facto monarchy in the second half of the 1st century BC, at first there was no name for the title of the new type of monarch.

When Napoleon I ordered the invasion of Portugal in 1807 because it refused to join the Continental System, the Portuguese Braganças moved their capital to Rio de Janeiro to avoid the fate of the Spanish Bourbons ( Napoleon I arrested them and made his brother Joseph king ).

When his wife Josefa died in 1812, he was mentally and emotionally processing the war by painting The Charge of the Mamelukes and The Third of May 1808, and preparing the series of prints later known as The Disasters of War ( Los desastres de la guerra ).

When they were expelled from Ceará, the Portuguese renamed it to Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora da Assunção.

Le Laboratoire des Hallucinations, by André de Lorde: When a doctor finds his wife's lover in his operating room, he performs a graphic brain surgery rendering the adulterer a hallucinating semi-zombie.

" When the inquisitor-general of France learned that Servetus was hiding in Vienne, according to Calvin under an assumed name, he contacted Cardinal François de Tournon, the secretary of the archbishop of Lyon, to take up the matter.

When a country is recognized as de jure, it is an acknowledgment by the other de jure nations that the country has sovereignty and the right to exist.

When a group of Mexicans murdered two American rebels, Frémont imprisoned José de los Santos Berreyesa, the alcalde, or mayor of Sonoma, two other Berreyesa brothers, and others he believed were involved.

When Germany occupied the Sudetenland, many important artworks such as the Mona Lisa were temporarily moved to the Château de Chambord.

When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by here the Mississippi River for France, he named it, meaning " Land of Louis ".

When Poland re-emerged as an independent state in 1918, Mazurek Dąbrowskiego became its de facto anthem.

When in 1489, Lorenzo de ' Medici, de facto ruler of Florence, asked Ghirlandaio for his two best pupils, Ghirlandaio sent Michelangelo and Francesco Granacci.

When Bishop de Berghes became eligible to inherit he was in a religious community and could not accept the title.

When the Grito de la Villa de Los Santos independence motion occurred, Veraguas firmly opposed it.