1790

1790 (MDCCXC) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1790th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 790th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1790, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1760s  1770s  1780s  – 1790s –  1800s  1810s  1820s
Years:	1787 1788 1789 – 1790 – 1791 1792 1793

1790 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1790 MDCCXC
Ab urbe condita	2543
Armenian calendar	1239 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	6540
Balinese saka calendar	1711–1712
Bengali calendar	1197
Berber calendar	2740
British Regnal year	30 Geo. 3 – 31 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2334
Burmese calendar	1152
Byzantine calendar	7298–7299
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4486 or 4426     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4487 or 4427
Coptic calendar	1506–1507
Discordian calendar	2956
Ethiopian calendar	1782–1783
Hebrew calendar	5550–5551
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1846–1847
- Shaka Samvat	1711–1712
- Kali Yuga	4890–4891
Holocene calendar	11790
Igbo calendar	790–791
Iranian calendar	1168–1169
Islamic calendar	1204–1205
Japanese calendar	Kansei 2 (寛政２年)
Javanese calendar	1716–1717
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4123
Minguo calendar	122 before ROC 民前122年
Nanakshahi calendar	322
Thai solar calendar	2332–2333
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1916 or 1535 or 763     — to — 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1917 or 1536 or 764

Events

• January 15 – Pitcairn Islands settled by mutineers from HMS Bounty
• January 23 – HMS Bounty burned and destroyed on Pitcairn Island

Deaths

• July 17 – Adam Smith