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