1st » In New York City, the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
11th » The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions United States Congress or U.S. Congress for Abolitionism in the United States named abolition of slavery.
Famous Deaths for February 1790
5th » William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
26th » Sir Joshua Rowley, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1730)