1790
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1790 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1790th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 79
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Leopold I of Belgium
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London Monster
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The London Monster was the name given to an attacker of women in London between 1788 and 1790. Renwick Williams, a Welsh maker of artificial flowers, was arrested for the attacks in June 1790, given t
1790
…for the assumption of state debts by the federal government; Hamilton agrees to support the capital site being above the Potomac. June 23 – The alleged London Monster is arrested in London; he later receives 40 years for 10 assaults. July – Louis XVI accepts a constitutional monarchy in France…
Cartoon by Isaac Cruikshank showing the London Monster cutting a woman with a knife; his knees also have knives attached
Angerstein in 1790, the year he offered a £100 reward for the Monster.
Reward poster circulated by Angerstein
Renwick Williams in court