Sep 17 William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn

Sep 26 Jefferson appointed first Sec of State; John Jay first chief justice; Samuel Osgood first Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph first Attorney Genl

Sep 15 Dept of Foreign Affairs, renamed the Dept of State

Sep 24 Congress creates the Post Office

Sep 11 Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury

Sep 24 The U.S. Congress passes the First Judiciary Act, which establishes the Supreme Court and the position of Attorney General.

Sep 24 Congress' first Judiciary Act, Attorney General & Supreme Court

Sep 02 The US Treasury Department is established.

Sep 29 First congress adjourns

Sep 29 US War Dept established a regular army

Jun 20 Oath of the Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken

Jun 03 Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)

Jun 17 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly

Jun 13 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington

Jun 01 The first US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)

Jun 09 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I

Aug 01 US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act

Aug 08 First police force, named Nightwatch, is established in Australian colony of NSW.

Aug 24 The birth of James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer

Aug 27 French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of the Rights of Man & the Citizen"

Aug 28 William Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn

Aug 28 Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus

Aug 07 US War Department established

Oct 03 Washington proclaims the First national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26

Oct 15 The first presidental tour-George Washington in New England

Jul 04 Nootka Sound BC, Estaban Jose Martinez 1742-1798 seizes British ship Argonaut and others for infringing Spanish sovereignty; on Spanish warship Princesa.

Jul 04 The first US tariff act

Jul 14 Bastille Day-citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison

Jul 14 The French revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille prison

Jul 27 Congress establishes the Department of Foreign Affairs, later to become the U.S. Department of State.

Mar 12 US Post Office established

Mar 04 First Congress of the United States held in New York

Mar 04 First Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 representatives)

Mar 02 Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances

Mar 11 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC

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