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The first capital was established February 4, 1861, in Montgomery, Alabama, ... (Capital of the United States of America 1785–1788 and 1789–1790). Albany: 1797:
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.
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.
The 1st United States Congress, comprising the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, met from March 4, 1789, to March 4, 1791, during the first two years of George Washington's presidency, first at Federal Hall in New York City and later at Congress Hall in Philadelphia.
The Conquest of Canaan by Timothy Dwight is credited as the first epic poem of the United States. The Anarchiad was a prominent satire of the early United States. [100] The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy, was published by William Hill Brown in 1789. [99] Drama and theater were controversial in the early United States.
1789. March 2: Last meeting of the Continental Congress, held at Fraunces Tavern, is adjourned sine die; Philip Pell is the only member in attendance; March 4: First session of the 1st United States Congress begins at Federal Hall; April 30: George Washington inaugurated as first President of the United States
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 ...
George Washington's tenure as the inaugural president of the United States began on April 30, 1789, the day of his first inauguration, and ended on March 4, 1797.. Washington took office after he was elected unanimously by the Electoral College in the 1788–1789 presidential election, the nation's first quadrennial presidentia