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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 .
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 ...
Prince of the Blood; briefly emigrated from 1789 to 1790, but returned to France; expelled by Directory; died in exile. Louis Henri, duc de Bourbon: Prince of the Blood, son of the Prince de Condé and father of the Duc d'Enghien; emigrated. Louis Joseph de Bourbon: Prince of the Blood; composed the Brunswick Manifesto. Charles de Bouvens
Presidential elections were first held in the United States from December 15, 1788 to January 7, 1789, under the new Constitution ratified in 1788. George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as president and John Adams became the first vice president.
Building a new nation : the Federalist era, 1789-1803 (1999) for middle schools; Finkelman, Paul, ed. (2001). Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. ISBN 9780684804989. Finkelman, Paul, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, 1754–1829. ISBN 9780684313467. Johnson, Paul E. (2006). The Early American Republic ...
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
The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution , the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America , between 1776 and 1789.