Page 3: Historical Events In 1789

Jun 01   1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths) in the year 1789.   

Jun 01   The first US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths) in the year 1789.   

Jun 03   Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada) on this day in history.   

Jun 04   US constitution goes into effect on this day in history.   

Jun 07   Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Jun 14   Capt William Blighs reaches Timor in the year 1789.   

Jun 14   Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

Jun 17   3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly on this day in history.   

Jun 20   On this day in history oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken   

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

Jun 27   In the year 1789 philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer   

Jun 30   On this day in history e J Horace Vernet, French painter   

Jul 04   In the year 1789 1st US tariff act   

Jul 04   Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian conductor, dies at 59 in the year 1789.   

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

Jul 04   The first US tariff act in the year 1789.   

Jul 11   In the year 1789 uS Marine Corps created by an act of Congress   

Jul 14   Bastille Day-citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history jacques Duphly, composer, dies at 74   

Jul 19   In the year 1789 john Martin, English painter   

Jul 27   On this day in history congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept)   

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

Aug 01   On this day in history uS Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act   

Aug 04   In the year 1789 french National Meeting ending feudal system   

Aug 07   Congress creates Dept of War & Lighthouse Service on this day in history.   

Aug 07   US War Department established on this day in history.   

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

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

Jan 04   In the year 1789 birth of benjamin Lundy, philanthropist/abolitionist   

Jan 17   August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 30   On this day in history birth of george Augustus Kollmann, composer   

Feb 01   On this day in history birth of hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer   

Feb 08   Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer was born on this day in history.   

Feb 09   Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849) was born on this day in history.   

Feb 15   On this day in history birth of friedrich Fesca, composer   

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   Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703) died on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Pierre Lyonet, Dutch zoologist/cryptologist, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

Jan 20   Johann Christoph Oley, composer, dies at 50 in the year 1789.   

Jan 23   Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724) died in the year 1789.   

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

Feb 12   Ethan Allen, American patriot (b. 1738) died on this day in history.