Historical Events In 1789

Sep 29   In the year 1789 1st congress adjourns  

Sep 29   First congress adjourns in the year 1789.  

Sep 29   On this day in history uS War Dept established a regular army  

Oct 02   In the year 1789 george Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.  

Oct 03   On this day in history francis Hoyt Gregory, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1866  

Oct 03   On this day in history washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26  

Oct 03   Washington proclaims the First national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26 in the year 1789.  

Oct 05   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 in the year 1789.  

Oct 06   French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October in the year 1789.  

Oct 10   Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer, dies at 34 in the year 1789.  

Oct 14   In the year 1789 constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder  

Oct 15   In the year 1789 1st presidental tour-George Washington in New England  

Oct 15   On this day in history the first presidental tour-George Washington in New England  

Oct 18   On this day in history giovanni Tadolini, composer  

Oct 24   On this day in history jean C Baud, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-6)  

Oct 24   Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.  

Oct 26   Joseph Mayseder, composer on this day in history.  

Oct 28   Johann Schneider, composer in the year 1789.  

Nov 05   On this day in history fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname  

Nov 06   Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States on this day in history.  

Nov 08   On this day in history bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky)  

Nov 08   On this day in history bourbon Whiskey, first distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon KY)  

Nov 13   In the year 1789 ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"  

Nov 13   On this day in history ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death &taxes"  

Nov 13   Martin de Ron, composer on this day in history.  

Nov 20   New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify Bill of Rights on this day in history.  

Nov 20   New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights in the year 1789.  

Nov 21   North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state on this day in history.  

Nov 26   On this day in history 1st national Thanksgiving  

Nov 26   On this day in history first national thanksgiving day celebrated in America, to mark the 1621 harvest of the Pilgrim Fathers  

Nov 26   The first national thanksgiving on this day in history.  

Dec 03   Claude-Joseph Vernet, French seascape painter, dies on this day in history.  

Dec 08   John Fawcett, composer in the year 1789.  

Dec 14   Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer on this day in history.  

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

Feb 08   On this day in history birth of ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer  

Feb 09   Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849) was born in the year 1789.  

Feb 15   In the year 1789 birth of friedrich Fesca, composer  

Jan 01   In the year 1789 christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65  

Jan 02   Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

Jan 08   Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703) died in the year 1789.  

Jan 10   Pierre Lyonet, Dutch zoologist/cryptologist, dies at 82 in the year 1789.  

Jan 20   In the year 1789 johann Christoph Oley, composer, dies at 50  

Jan 23   In the year 1789 death of frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)  

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

Feb 12   Ethan Allen, American patriot (b. 1738) died in the year 1789.