1789

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Year 1789 (MDCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

1789 was the year of the first French Revolution, which ultimately overthrew the French monarchy and triggered a series of European wars that lasted until the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815. The French Revolution was a watershed historical event that drew the age of unlimited monarchies to a close and ushered in the tumultuous 19th century.

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[edit] Events of 1789

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January 7 - 1789 United States presidential elections and House of Representatives elections held.
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 founded in Washington, D.C., becoming the first Catholic college in the United States

February 4: First President of the United States, George Washington, elected.

February 4 - George Washington is unanimously elected the first President of the United States by the United States Electoral College.
March 4 - At Federal Hall in New York City, the 1st United States Congress meets and declares the new United States Constitution to be in effect.
March 18 - The last burning at the stake took place at Newgate when Catherine (or Christian) Murphy was executed for high treason coining.
April 1 - At Federal Hall, the United States House of Representatives attains its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker of the House.
April 7 - Change of Ottoman sultan of the Ottoman Empire from Abd-ul-Hamid I (1773-1789) to Selim III (1789-1807).
April 28 - Mutiny on the Bounty: Fletcher Christian leads the mutiny on HMS Bounty against Captain William Bligh.
April 30 - George Washington is inaugurated at Federal Hall in New York City, beginning his term as the first president of the United States.
May 5 - In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time in 175 years.
June 14 - Bounty mutiny survivors, including Captain William Bligh and 18 others, reach Timor after a nearly 4,000-mile journey in an open boat.

April 28: Mutiny on the Bounty.

June 17 - In France, representatives of the Third Estate at the Estates-General declare themselves the National Assembly.
June 20 - Tennis Court Oath made in Versailles.
June 23 - Louis XVI of France makes a conciliatory speech urging reforms to a joint session and orders the three estates to meet together.

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July - Perhaps 150,000 of Paris's 600,000 people are without work.
July 9
- In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
- Official end of the Theater War.
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.
July 13 - People begin to seize arms for the defense of Paris.
July 14 - French Revolution (1789-1799) begins: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners. In rural areas, peasants attack noble manors.

July 14: Storming of the Bastille.

July 27 - The first U.S. federal government agency under the new Constitution, 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 Department of War is established.
August 26 - Declaration of the Rights of Man in France.
August 28 - William Herschel discovers Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.
September 2 - United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
September 22 - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792: Alexander Suvorov roundly defeats the 100,000 Turks in the Battle of Rymnik.
September 24 - The Judiciary Act of 1789 establishes the federal judiciary and the United States Marshals Service.
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.
September 29 - The U.S. Department of War establishes the nation's first regular army, with a strength of several hundred men.
October - Some 7,000 women march 12 miles from Paris to [[Versailles] to demand action.
November 6 - Pope Pius VI appoints John Carroll 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.
November 26 - A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
December 11 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the oldest public university in the United States, is founded

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Thomas Jefferson returns from Europe, bringing the first macaroni machine to the United States
Influenced by Dr. Benjamin Rush's argument against excessive use of alcohol, about 200 farmers in a Connecticut community formed a temperance association.
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor decrees that all peasant labor obligations be converted into cash payments.
Fort Washington is built in Cincinnati, Ohio, to protect early US settlements in the Northwest Territory.

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**1789 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1789 MDCCLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2542
Armenian calendar	1238 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-55 – -54
Berber calendar	2739
Buddhist calendar	2333
Burmese calendar	1151
Chinese calendar	4425/4485-12-6 (戊申年十二月初六日) — to — 4426/4486-11-15 (己酉年十一月十五日)
Coptic calendar	1505 – 1506
Ethiopian calendar	1781 – 1782
Hebrew calendar	5549 – 5550
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1844 – 1845
- Shaka Samvat	1711 – 1712
- Kali Yuga	4890 – 4891
Holocene calendar	11789
Iranian calendar	1167 – 1168
Islamic calendar	1203 – 1204
Japanese calendar	Tenmei 9Kansei 1 (寛政元年)
Korean calendar	4122
Thai solar calendar	2332
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