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1789 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1789th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 789th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of ...
People of colour also faced social and legal discrimination in mainland France and its colonies, including a bar on their access to professions such as law, medicine and pharmacy. [193] In 1789–90, a delegation of free coloureds, led by Vincent Ogé and Julien Raimond, unsuccessfully lobbied the Assembly to end discrimination against free ...
Maximilien Robespierre, Georges Danton and Jean-Paul Marat in a portrait by Alfred Loudet, 1882 (Musée de la Révolution française) During the French Revolution (1789–1799), multiple differing political groups, clubs, organizations, and militias arose, which could often be further subdivided into rival factions. Every group had its own ideas about what the goals of the Revolution were and ...
The Communes – The body formed 11 May 1789, by the Third Estate after seceding from the Estates General. On 12 June 1789, the Communes invited the other orders to join them: some clergy did so the following day. The National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) – Declared 17 June 1789, by the Communes. The clergy joined them June 19.
January 7 – The 1789 United States presidential elections and House of Representatives elections are held. January 21 – William Hill Brown 's anonymous sentimental epistolary novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature , usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston .
The period of its political ascendancy includes the Reign of Terror, during which well over 10,000 people were put on trial and executed in France, many for political crimes. Initially founded in 1789 by anti-royalist deputies from Brittany, the club grew into a nationwide republican movement with a membership estimated at a half million or ...
The crowd seized the arsenal at Rennes; the soldiers refused to fire on the people. Cannons of Paris are brought to Montmartre. Sunday, 19 July: Storming of the city hall of Strasbourg. Wednesday, 22 July: The Controller-General of Finances, Foullon and the Intendant of Paris, Bertier de Savigny, are massacred during a riot. Tuesday, 4 August
July 31, 1789: Regulation of the Collection of Duties on Tonnage and Merchandise, ch.5, 1 Stat. 29, which established the United States Customs Service and its ports of entry. August 7, 1789: Department of War was established, ch. 7, 1 Stat. 49. September 2, 1789: United States Department of the Treasury was established, ch. 12, 1 Stat. 65