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| 1790 |
| | | A second fleet arrives in Sydney, bringing more convicts and a regiment, the New South Wales Corps, to keep order | |
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| 1790 |
| | | The Potomac is chosen as the navigable river on which the new US capital city will be sited | |
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| 1790 |
| | | The USA becomes the first nation to establish a regular census as a systematic check on the size of the population | |
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| 1790 |
| | | Anglo-Irish politician Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, a blistering attack on recent events across the Channel | |
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| 1790 |
| | | English painter J.M.W. Turner is only 15 when a painting of his, a watercolour, is first exhibited at the Royal Academy | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Under the guidance of Alexander Hamilton the First Bank of the United States is established in Philadelphia | |
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| 1791 |
| | | The Canadian Constitution Act divides Quebec into Upper Canada (today's Ontario) and Lower Canada (today's Quebec) | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Scottish poet Robert Burns publishes Tam o' Shanter, in which a drunken farmer has an alarming encounter with witches | |
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| 1791 |
| | | French inventor Claude Chappe develops a hilltop signalling system, for which he coins the words telegraph and semaphore | |
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| 1791 |
| | | A stranger arrives in Vienna with a mysterious commission for Mozart to write a requiem mass, just months before the composer's death | |
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