1789

Years: 1786 1787 1788 - 1789 - 1790 1791 1792
Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1789 in art 1789 in literature 1789 in music 1789 in science List of state leaders in 1789 List of religious leaders in 1789

Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 Ongoing events

2 Births
3 Deaths

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 College becomes the first Catholic college in the United States (Washington, DC).
February 4 - George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
March 4 - At Federal Hall in New York City, the first United States Congress meets and declares the new Constitution of the United States is 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 against Captain William Bligh
April 30 - George Washington officially begins his term as the 1st President of the United States with his inauguration at Federal Hall in New York City.
June 14 - HMS 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, the Third Estate declares itself as a national assembly.
June 23 ÃÂ Tennis Court Oath in Paris
July 9 - In Versailles, the National Constituent Assembly is formed by the French National Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
July 10 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.
July 11 - King of France fires popular chief minister Necker
July 12 ÃÂ Angry Parisian crowd demonstrates against KingÃÂs decision to dismiss minister Necker
July 14 - Beginning of French Revolution: Parisians storm the Bastille Prison in Paris and free seven political prisoners. In rural areas, peasants attack noble manors
July 27 - The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (later renamed Department of State).
August 4 - The feudal system is abolished in France
August 7 - The United States War Department is established
August 26 ÃÂ Declaration of the Rights of Man in France
September 2 - United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
September 25 - United States Bill of Rights containing a package of twelve are proposed to the state legislatures for consideration, with ratification of ten of them completed two years later. An eleventh was ratified more than two centuries later in 1992.
September 29 - War Department first establishes regular army with strength of several hundred men.
November 6 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
November 20 - New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
November 21 - North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 12th U.S. state.
Beginning of the French Revolution
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
The Judiciary Act established the Supreme Court of the United States and the federal judiciary.
Revenue Cutter Service (predecessor of United States Customs Service) founded
US Marshals Service founded

Ongoing events

French Revolution (1789-1799)

Births

January 4 - Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist
January 21 ÃÂ William Machin Stairs, Nova Scotia businessman, statesman (d. 1865)
July 19 - John Martin, English painter
August 21 - Augustin Louis Cauchy (French mathematician)

Deaths

April 7 - Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman sultan
May 25 - Anders Dahl, botanist for whom the dahlia is named
Baron d'Holbach