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The first inauguration of George Washington as the first president of the United States was held on Thursday, April 30, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City. The inauguration was held nearly two months after the beginning of the first four-year term of George Washington as president.
The Samuel Osgood House, also known as the Walter Franklin House, was the first official residence of the President of the United States.It housed George Washington, his family, and household staff, from April 23, 1789, to February 23, 1790, during New York City's two-year term as the national capital.
(Capital of the United States of America 1785–1788 and 1789–1790). Albany: 1797: Capital of the State of New York. North Carolina Statehood in 1776: San Agustín: 1565: Capital of the Spanish province of La Florida. [g] Charlestown (SC) [m] 1670: Capital of the English Province of Carolina. 1707: Capital of the British Province of Carolina ...
July 27 – The first U.S. federal government agency under the new Constitution, the Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the Department of State), is established following the month-long Decision of 1789, the first significant construction on the meaning of the U.S. Constitution in Congress.
New York was the first capital under the newly enacted Constitution of the United States, from March 4, 1789, to August 12, 1790, at Federal Hall. [33] Federal Hall was also the site where the United States Supreme Court met for the first time, [ 34 ] the United States Bill of Rights were drafted and ratified, [ 35 ] and where the Northwest ...
NEW YORK (AP) — In the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected the country's first president, a Boston-based printer quietly launched another American institution. William Hill Brown's “The Power of Sympathy,” published anonymously by Isaiah Thomas & Company, is widely cited as something momentous: the first American ...
The son of the incoming president is reportedly joining 1789 Capital, a boutique investment company that focuses almost exclusively on products and services for conservative audiences.
The first of a series of cholera epidemics began in 1832. [6] By 1835, with the epidemic past, Manhattan was in the throes of the first of its building booms. The Great Fire of 1835, as seen from Williamsburgh. Late on December 16, 1835, the Great Fire of New York broke out. The temperature was below zero (F), and gale-force winds were blowing ...