1789 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1789?
- February 4, 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
- April 28, 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
- June 20, 1789 – Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
- July 9, 1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
- July 11, 1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
- July 14, 1789 – French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
- July 15, 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
- August 4, 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
- August 26, 1789 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
- September 11, 1789 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
- September 22, 1789 – Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
- September 29, 1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
- October 6, 1789 – French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
- October 19, 1789 – Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
- November 6, 1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
- November 20, 1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
- November 21, 1789 – North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
- November 26, 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
- December 11, 1789 – The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
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