22nd » Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
Famous Birthdays on October in 1790
3rd » John Ross (Cherokee chief) or John Ross, American tribal chief (d. 1866)
14th » Thursday October Christian I, English son of Fletcher Christian (d. 1831)
21st » Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician, French Head of State (d. 1869)
23rd » Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, lexicographer, and educator (d. 1860)
Famous Deaths for October 1790
19th » Lyman Hall, American physician and politician, 16th Governor of Georgia (b. 1724)