Today in History for Year 1789

Months in Year 1789: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 69 of 68

Jan 21st - 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published
Jan 23rd - Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded
Jan 26th - John Odell signs contract for £336 to build St Peter's church (Bronx)
Feb 1st - Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
Feb 4th - 1st electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as Pres & VP
Mar 2nd - Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
Mar 4th - 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
Mar 10th - Franklin College founded
Mar 11th - Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC
Apr 1st - House of Reps 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
Apr 6th - 1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, NYC
Apr 8th - House of Representives 1st meeting
Apr 16th - George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
Apr 21st - John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington)
Apr 23rd - President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY
Apr 28th - Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty & Capt William Bligh
Apr 30th - George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
May 5th - French States-General for It first since 1614 together
May 7th - 1st inaugurational ball (for George Washington in NYC)
First US President George Washington May 12th - Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses
Jun 1st - 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
Jun 3rd - Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)
Jun 4th - US constitution goes into effect
Jun 8th - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Jun 9th - Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I
Jun 13th - Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
Jun 14th - Capt William Blighs reaches Timor
Jun 17th - 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
Jun 20th - Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken
Jul 4th - 1st US tariff act
Jul 14th - Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille
Jul 15th - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
Jul 27th - Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept)
Aug 1st - US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
4th US President James Madison Aug 4th - French National Meeting ending feudal system
Aug 7th - Congress creates Dept of War & Lighthouse Service
Aug 27th - French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man & Citizen"
Aug 28th - Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
Sep 2nd - US Treasury Department established by Congress
Sep 11th - Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury
Sep 13th - 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks)
Sep 15th - Dept of Foreign Affairs, renamed Dept of State
Sep 17th - William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
Sep 18th - 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress
Sep 22nd - Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department
Sep 24th - US Congress creates Post Office
Sep 24th - US Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court
Sep 24th - President George Washington nominates John Jay the 1st Chief Justice
Sep 24th - President George Washington nominates John Jay the 1st Chief Justice
Ist US Chief Justice John Jay Sep 24th - US Attorney General Office is created
Sep 25th - Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)
Sep 26th - 4th US Postmaster General: Samuel Osgood of Mass takes office
Sep 26th - Jefferson appointed 1st US Sec of State; John Jay becomes 1st US Chief Justice;
Sep 26th - Edmund J Randolph becomes 1st US Attorney General
Sep 29th - 1st congress adjourns
Sep 29th - US War Dept established a regular army
Oct 2nd - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
Oct 3rd - Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
Oct 5th - French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
Oct 6th - French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
Oct 15th - 1st presidental tour-George Washington in New England
Nov 5th - Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname
Nov 5th - French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law
Nov 6th - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
Nov 8th - Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky)
Nov 13th - Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"
Nov 20th - New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
Nov 21st - North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
Nov 26th - 1st national Thanksgiving

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 38 of 38

Jan 3rd - Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher
Jan 4th - Benjamin Lundy, philanthropist/abolitionist
Jan 17th - August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)
Jan 30th - George Augustus Kollmann, composer
Feb 1st - Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer
Feb 8th - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer
Feb 9th - Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849)
Feb 15th - Friedrich Fesca, composer
Mar 4th - Pavel P Gagarin, Russ monarch
Mar 16th - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
Mar 17th - Edmund Kean, London England, tragic actor (Shylock)
May 28th - Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Tomorrow- og Aftensange)
Jun 15th - Josiah Henson, American slave and settlement founder (d. 1883)
Jun 27th - Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer
Jun 30th - E J Horace Vernet, French painter
Jul 6th - Maria Isabella of Spain, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1846)
Jul 19th - John Martin, English painter
Aug 21st - Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician
Aug 26th - Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833)
Aug 28th - Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
Sep 1st - Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
Sep 3rd - Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer
Sep 9th - William Cranch Bond, US, astronomer (codiscovered Hyperion)
Sep 15th - James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major US novelist (Last of Mohicans)
Sep 28th - Richard Bright, England, physician (Bright's Disease/nephritis)
Oct 3rd - Francis Hoyt Gregory, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1866
Oct 8th - John Ruggles, American politician (d. 1874)
Oct 8th - William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)
Oct 14th - Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder
Oct 16th - William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (d. 1866)
Oct 18th - Giovanni Tadolini, composer
Oct 24th - Jean C Baud, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-6)
Oct 24th - Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer
Oct 26th - Joseph Mayseder, composer
Oct 28th - Johann Schneider, composer
Nov 13th - Martin de Ron, composer
Dec 8th - John Fawcett, composer
Dec 14th - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 37 of 37

Jan 1st - Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65
Jan 1st - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
Jan 2nd - Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer, dies at 68
Jan 8th - Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)
Jan 10th - Pierre Lyonet, Dutch zoologist/cryptologist, dies at 82
Jan 20th - Johann Christoph Oley, composer, dies at 50
Jan 23rd - Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)
Jan 23rd - John Cleland, English novelist (b. 1709)
Feb 2nd - Armand-Louis Couperin, Fren composer/organist (Notre Dame), dies at 63
Feb 12th - Ethan Allen, American patriot (b. 1738)
Feb 19th - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738)
Apr 7th - Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66
Apr 7th - Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
Apr 26th - Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67
May 10th - Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer, dies at 72
May 25th - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
Jun 7th - Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer, dies at 81
Jun 12th - Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies
Jun 14th - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61
Jul 4th - Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian conductor, dies at 59
Jul 13th - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
Jul 14th - Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
Jul 14th - Bernard-René de Launay, governor of the Bastille, murdered during the Storming of the Bastille (b.1740)
Jul 15th - Jacques Duphly, composer, dies at 74
Jul 22nd - Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715)
Aug 25th - Mary Ball Washington, mother of George, dies
Sep 11th - Luca Sorkocevic, composer, dies at 55
Sep 12th - Franz Xaver Richter, composer, dies at 79
Sep 23rd - John Rogers, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
Sep 28th - Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire
Oct 10th - Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer, dies at 34
Oct 24th - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer, dies at 69
Oct 24th - Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet, dies at 68
Oct 27th - John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
Dec 3rd - Claude-Joseph Vernet, French seascape painter, dies
Dec 12th - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
Dec 23rd - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)