Timeline May 1790

Events in May 1790 3

• 1728 – 1790 Thomas Warton (1728-1790) Died 21 May 1790, aged 62 Thomas Warton, English poet and literary historian, died at Oxford. He served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain and authored an influential early history of English poetry.
• 1790 Rhode Island Ratifies the U.S. Constitution Last of the original thirteen states joins the Union Rhode Island narrowly ratified the U.S. Constitution by a vote of 34 to 32, becoming the thirteenth and final original state to do so. Its late ratification came after two years of resistance over states' rights and the absence of a bill of rights.
• 1790 United States Copyright Act Signed First U.S. federal statute protecting authors' works Congress enacted the Copyright Act of 1790, granting authors exclusive rights to their books, maps, and charts for fourteen years. It was the first federal copyright statute in the United States.