1790 in France
# 1790 in France

Events from the year 1790 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Louis XVI

## Events

* 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.

## 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

* 6 May - Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert
* 24 May - François-Henri Clicquot
* 3 July - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle
* 17 October - André Désilles
