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Wikipedia.
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.
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.
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.
Births:
January 4 -
Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist.
April 22 -
Dingnus van der Weijde.
August 21 -
Augustin Louis Cauchy (French mathematician).
September 20 -
Jan van den Houten.
Baptized:
October 18 -
Lena Breesnee.
Deaths:
April 7 -
Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman sultan.
May 25 -
Anders Dahl, botanist for whom the dahlia is named
Baron d'Holbach.
October 6 -
Jan van den Houten.
Interred:
January 9 -
Lucretia Johanna van den Houte.
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