1789

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 Electoral College.
   * March 4 - In New York City, the first United States Congress meets and
     declares the new Constitution of the United States is in effect.
   * April 1 - 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 30 - George Washington officially begins his term as the 1st
     President of the United States.
   * 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 14 - French Revolution: Parisians storm the Bastille Prison in
     Paris and free seven political prisoners.
   * 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.
   * September 2 - United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
   * November 21 - North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution
     and becomes the 12th U.S. state.
   * Beginning of the French Revolution

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

   * 1789 in literature:
        o The Castles of Athlyn and Dunbane - Ann Radcliffe
        o Earl Strongbow - James White

   * 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.
   * July 14 - Storming of the Bastille Prison, Paris - a key event in the
     French revolution.
   * September 29 - United States War Department first establishes regular
     army with strength of several hundred men.
   * Captain Cook arrives in Hawaii and is thought to be the god Lono. The
     last time the Kumulipo is recited is this year, in his honor.

Births

   * March 16 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist and discoverer of Ohm's law (+
     1854)
   * 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

Monarchs/Presidents

   * China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October
     18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)

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