1790 in France

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1790
in
France

Decades:
  • 1770s
  • 1780s
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
  • 1810s
See also:Other events of 1790
History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1790 in France.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: Louis XVI

Events[]

Fête de la Fédération (Musée de la Révolution française)
  • 4 February - Louis XVI declares to the National Assembly that he will maintain the constitutional laws.
  • 4 March - France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces, in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
  • July - Louis XVI accepts a constitutional monarchy.
  • 12 July - The Civil Constitution of the Clergy law is passed.
  • 14 July - The Fête de la Fédération is held.
  • 31 August - Nancy affair.
  • 4 September - Résignation of Jacques Necker.
  • 24 October - Tricolour adopted as the flag of France by the Constituent Assembly.
  • 24 November - The Constituent Assembly passes a law requiring all Roman Catholic priests to swear an oath of acceptance of the new Constitution.[1]

Births[]

  • 6 March - Jacques Arago
  • 1 April - Auguste Couder
  • 9 June - Abel-François Villemain
  • 29 July - Nicolas Martin du Nord
  • 7 August - Jean-Claude Colin
  • 21 October - Alphonse de Lamartine
  • 10 November - Jean René Constant Quoy
  • 27 November - Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes
  • 6 December - Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant
  • 20 December - Jean Joseph Vaudechamp

Deaths[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Vovelle, Michel (1984). The Fall of the French Monarchy 1787-1792. Cambridge University Press. p. 131.
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