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 14, 1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
- June 20, 1789 – Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
- July 11, 1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
- July 14, 1789 – Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
- July 27, 1789 – The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
- August 4, 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
- August 7, 1789 – The United States War Department is established.
- August 26, 1789 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
- August 28, 1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
- September 11, 1789 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
- September 25, 1789 – The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
- September 29, 1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
- October 2, 1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
- October 3, 1789 – George Washington made the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.
- October 5, 1789 – 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.
- 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 26, 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
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