Historical Events In 1789

Jun 01   1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths) on this day in history.  

Jun 01   On this day in history the first US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)  

Jun 03   In the year 1789 alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)  

Jun 04   In the year 1789 uS constitution goes into effect  

Jun 07   Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer, dies at 81 in the year 1789.  

Jun 08   James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives in the year 1789.  

Jun 09   Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I in the year 1789.  

Jun 12   Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies in the year 1789.  

Jun 13   Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington in the year 1789.  

Jun 14   Capt William Blighs reaches Timor on this day in history.  

Jun 14   Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61 in the year 1789.  

Jun 17   3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly in the year 1789.  

Jun 20   Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken in the year 1789.  

Jun 20   In the year 1789 oath of the Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken  

Jun 27   In the year 1789 philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer  

Jun 30   E J Horace Vernet, French painter in the year 1789.  

Jul 04   1st US tariff act on this day in history.  

Jul 04   On this day in history claudio M da Costa, Brazilian conductor, dies at 59  

Jul 04   On this day in history nootka Sound BC, Estaban Jose Martinez 1742-1798 seizes British ship Argonaut and others for infringing Spanish sovereignty; on Spanish warship Princesa.  

Jul 04   In the year 1789 the first US tariff act  

Jul 11   US Marine Corps created by an act of Congress on this day in history.  

Jul 14   In the year 1789 bastille Day-citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison  

Jul 14   Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille in the year 1789.  

Jul 14   The French revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille prison on this day in history.  

Jul 15   Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris in the year 1789.  

Jul 15   Jacques Duphly, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

Jul 19   On this day in history john Martin, English painter  

Jul 27   Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept) on this day in history.  

Jul 27   Congress establishes the Department of Foreign Affairs, later to become the U.S. Department of State on this day in history.  

Aug 01   In the year 1789 uS Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act  

Aug 04   On this day in history french National Meeting ending feudal system  

Aug 07   Congress creates Dept of War & Lighthouse Service in the year 1789.  

Aug 07   On this day in history uS War Department established  

Aug 08   In the year 1789 first police force, named Nightwatch, is established in Australian colony of NSW.  

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Jan 03   In the year 1789 birth of carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher  

Jan 04   Benjamin Lundy, philanthropist/abolitionist was born on this day in history.  

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of august Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)  

Jan 30   In the year 1789 birth of george Augustus Kollmann, composer  

Feb 01   Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer was born on this day in history.  

Feb 08   Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer was born in the year 1789.  

Feb 09   In the year 1789 birth of franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849)  

Feb 15   Friedrich Fesca, composer was born in the year 1789.  

Jan 01   Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65 in the year 1789.  

Jan 02   On this day in history franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer, dies at 68  

Jan 08   On this day in history death of jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)  

Jan 10   In the year 1789 pierre Lyonet, Dutch zoologist/cryptologist, dies at 82  

Jan 20   Johann Christoph Oley, composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.  

Jan 23   On this day in history death of frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)  

Feb 02   In the year 1789 armand-Louis Couperin, Fren composer/organist (Notre Dame), dies at 63  

Feb 12   On this day in history death of ethan Allen, American patriot (b. 1738)