State coordinate
Rhode Island's Admission Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs
Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
How the card is assigned
Rhode Island (RI) entered the Table 1 record on May 29, 1790. Card Blueprints uses May 29 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1790 is unused.
Coordinate: the 3 of Clubs. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/3-of-clubs.
Rhode Island's place in the admission record
CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Rhode Island at number 13 of 50. 1 year after North Carolina (number 12, 1789). Vermont follows at number 14, in 1791. 1790 carries only this one date in Table 1.
- Order in Table 1
- 13 of 50
- Date kind
- Ratification — an original state, dated by its ratification of the Constitution
- Date used
- May 29, 1790
- Month and day used
- May 29 (the year 1790 is unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 5 + 29) = 16
- Coordinate
- 3 of Clubs — Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
- States sharing May 29
- Wisconsin
- Wikidata inception (P571)
- 1790-05-29
Rhode Island on the record
Rhode Island ( ROHD) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly more than 1.11 million residents as of 2025. The state's population, however, has continually recorded growth in every decennial census since 1790, and it is the second-most densely populated state after New Jersey. The state takes its name from the eponymous island, though most of its land area is on the mainland. Providence is its capital and most populous city. Native Americans lived around Narragansett Bay before English settlers began arriving in the early 17th century. Rhode Island was unique among the Thirteen British Colonies in having been founded by a refugee, Roger Williams, who fled religious persecution in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to establish a haven for religious liberty. He founded Providence in 1636 on land purchased from local tribes, creating the first settlement in North America with an explicitly secular government. The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations subsequently became a destination for religious and political dissenters and social outcasts, earning it the moniker "Rogue's Island". Rhode Island was the first colony to call for a Continental Congress, in 1774, and the first to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown, on May 4, 1776. After the American Revolution, during which it was heavily occupied and contested, Rhode Island became the fourth state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, on February 9, 1778. Because its citizens favored a weaker central government, it boycotted the 1787 convention that had drafted the United States Constitution, which it initially refused to ratify; it finally ratified it on May 29, 1790, the last of the original 13 states to do so. The state was officially named the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations since the colonial era but came to be commonly known as "Rhode Island".
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Rhode Island (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article; the admission date itself comes from CRS R47747, not Wikipedia.
Constitution ratification date
Rhode Island is one of the original 13. CRS R47747 Table 1 records the date this state ratified the Constitution (May 29, 1790), not an admission act.
States that share May 29
- Wisconsin — May 29, 1848
Other states on the 3 of Clubs
- Wisconsin — 3 of Clubs
FAQ
- What date does Rhode Island use?
- May 29, 1790 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 ratification date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
- What is Rhode Island's admission birth card?
- The 3 of Clubs. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the state.
- Where do the dates come from?
- Primary: CRS R47747 Table 1. Secondary: Wikipedia’s list of U.S. states by date of admission. Optional Wikidata P571 matched the CRS day for every state QID used here.
Get your own coordinate
The $9 Deep Dive is a written report for a birthday you enter — not a reading of Rhode Island.
Sources: CRS R47747 Table 1 (congress.gov, PDF R47747.16) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union). Optional Wikidata P571 cross-check via REST wbgetentities (no SPARQL).