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'''1789''' was a
common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
Events
*
January 7 - First nationwide
United States election
*
January 21 - The first American novel, ''The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth'', is printed in
Boston, Massachusetts
*
January 23 -
Georgetown University becomes the first
Catholic college in the
United States (
Washington, DC).
*
February 4 -
George Washington is unanimously elected the first
President of the United States by the
U.S. Electoral College.
*
March 4 - At
Federal Hall in
New York City, the first
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress meets and declares the new
Constitution of the United States to be in effect.
*
April 1 - At
Federal Hall in
New York City, the
United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects
Frederick Muhlenberg of
Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.
*
April 28 -
Fletcher Christian leads a
mutiny on
HMS Bounty HMS ''Bounty'' against Captain
William Bligh
*
April 30 -
George Washington is
inauguration at
Federal Hall in
New York City, beginning his term as the 1st
President of the United States
*
May 5 - In
France, the
Estates-General of 1789 Estates-General convenes for the first time in 175 years.
*
June 14 -
Mutiny on the Bounty (history) HMAV ''Bounty'' mutiny survivors including Captain
William Bligh and 18 others reach
Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat
*
June 17 - In
France, representatives of the
Third Estate at the
Estates-General of 1789 Estates-General declare themselves the
National Assembly (French Revolution) National Assembly.
*
June 20 -
Tennis Court Oath in
Paris
*
July 9 - In
Versailles, the
National Assembly (French Revolution) National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the
National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a
French constitution.
*
July 10 -
Alexander Mackenzie (explorer) Alexander Mackenzie reaches
Mackenzie River Delta.
*
July 11 - King of France fires popular chief minister Necker
*
July 12 - Angry Parisian crowd demonstrates against King’s decision to dismiss minister Necker
*
July 14 -
French Revolution: Citizens of
Paris storming of the Bastille storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners. In rural areas, peasants attack noble manors.
*
July 27 - The first U.S.
government of the United States federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the
United States Department of State Department of State), is established.
*
August 4 - In
France members of the Constituent Assembly take an oath to end
feudalism and abandon their privileges
*
August 7 - The
United States War Department is established
*
August 26 -
Declaration of the Rights of Man in
France
*
September 2 -
United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
*
September 24 - The
Judiciary Act of 1789 establishes the
Supreme Court of the United States and the federal judiciary.
*
September 25 - The
United States Congress proposes a set of twelve amendments for ratification by the states. Ratification for ten of these proposals is completed on
December 5,
1791, creating the
United States Bill of Rights. An
Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution additional proposal is ratified more than two centuries later in
1992.
*
September 29 - The
United States War Department first establishes the nation's first regular
United States Army army, with a strength of several hundred men.
*
November 6 -
Pope Pius VI appoints Father
John Carroll (priest) the first
Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic bishop in the
United States.
*
November 20 -
New Jersey ratifies the
United States Bill of Rights, the first
U.S. state state to do so.
*
November 21 -
North Carolina ratifies the
United States Constitution and becomes the 12th
U.S. state.
Undated
*Change of
Ottoman sultan of the
Ottoman Empire from
Abd-ul-Hamid I (
1773-1789) to
Selim III (1789-
1807)
*
Thomas Jefferson brings the first ''
macaroni'' machine to the
United States
*
United States Revenue Cutter Service (predecessor of
United States Customs Service and direct predecessor of the
United States Coast Guard) is founded
*
United States Marshals Service is founded
* Influenced by dr
Benjamin Rush's argue against excessive use of alcohol, about 200 farmers in a Connecticut community formed a
temperance association.
Ongoing events
*
French Revolution (1789-
1799)
Births
*
January 4 -
Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist (d.
1839)
*
January 21 -
William Machin Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (d.
1865)
*
March 16 -
Georg Ohm, German physicist (d.
1854)
*
July 19 -
John Martin (painter) John Martin, English painter (d.
1854)
*
August 21 -
Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d.
1857)
*
August 28 -
Stephanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d.
1860)
*
September 15 -
James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (d.
1851)
*
December 28 -
Catharine Sedgwick, American writer (d.
1867)
Deaths
*
January 1 -
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b.
1716)
*
January 8 -
Jack Broughton, English boxer
*
January 23 -
Frances Brooke, English writer (b.
1724)
*
February 19 -
Nicholas Van Dyke (governor) Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and
Governor of Delaware President of Delaware (b.
1738)
*
April 7 -
Abd-ul-Hamid I,
Ottoman Sultan (b.
1725)
*
April 7 -
Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (b.
1722)
*
April 26 - Count
Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b.
1721)
*
May 9 -
Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French Sartillery specialist (b.
1715)
*
May 25 -
Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b.
1751)
*
June 4 -
Prince Louis-Joseph of France, son of
Louis XVI of France (tuberculosis) (b.
1781)
*
July 13 -
Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b.
1715)
*
July 14 -
Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b.
1721)
*
July 15 -
Jacques Duphly, French composer (b.
1715)
*
July 22 -
Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (executed) (b.
1715)
*
October 27 -
John Cook (governor) John Cook, American farmer and
Governor of Delaware President of Delaware (b.
1730)
*
December 3 -
Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b.
1714)
*
December 12 -
John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b.
1713)
*
December 23 -
Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of signed French (b.
1712)
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