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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 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'' 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 convenes for the first time in 175 years.
- June 14 - 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 declare themselves the National Assembly .
- June 20 - Tennis Court Oath in Paris
- July 9 - In Versailles , the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent 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 - Angry Parisian crowd demonstrates against King’s decision to dismiss minister Necker
- Storm The Bastille and free seven prisoners. In rural areas, peasants attack noble manors.
- July 27 - The first U.S. Federal Government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the 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.
- roundly defeats the 100,000 Turks in the Battle Of Rymnik .
- 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 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 Army , with a strength of several hundred men.
- November 6 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll (priest) the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States .
- November 20 - New Jersey ratifies the United States Bill Of Rights , the first State to do so.
- November 21 - North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 12th U.S. State .
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
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 , American lawyer and 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 , American farmer and 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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