Mar 04 President Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)

Mar 10 Lt. Gov. John Graves Simcoe and his wife Elizabeth dine on boiled black squirrel, porcupine, roasted passenger pigeon, raccoon, fish, beef and veal

Mar 02 The birth of Sam Houston, Texan leader

Mar 18 2nd Battle at Neerwinden Austria army beats France

Mar 04 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Netherlands

Mar 18 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France

Mar 26 Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France

Aug 01 The metric unit of mass, the kilogram, is introduced in France

Aug 23 In France, the first ever national conscription introduced for unmarried men from ages 18 to 25

Sep 29 Tennis is first mentioned in an English sporting magazine

Sep 18 Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building

Feb 12 US fugitive slave law passed which requires return of escaped slaves

Feb 25 US President George Washington and his department heads hold their first Cabinet meeting.

Feb 01 France declares war on England & Netherlands

Feb 01 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk & linen

Feb 11 Prussian troops occupy Venlo Netherlands

Feb 24 French troops conquer Breda

Apr 17 Battle of Warsaw

Nov 26 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France

Nov 08 Louvre in Paris, opens

Nov 08 The Louvre Museum opens in Paris.

Dec 14 First state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati

Dec 09 Noah Webster establishes New York's first daily newspaper, American Minerva

May 30 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public

May 17 In Alberta, Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sights the Rockies.

May 19 Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)

May 21 Curaçao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange

May 25 Father Stephen Theodore Badin is first US Roman Catholic priest ordained

Jul 13 French rev writer Jean Paul Marat murdered by Charlotte Corday

Jul 13 Jean Paul Marat French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday

Jul 13 Jean Paul Marat, one of the leaders of the French revolution, is murdered

Jun 20 Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent

Jun 02 Jean-Paul Marat, reciting the names of 29 "enemies of the republic", kicks of the French reign of terror.

Jun 24 The first republican constitution in France adopted

Jan 23 Humane Society of Philadelphia (first aid society) organized

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