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Federal Hall, New York City, site of George Washington's first inauguration, April 30, 1789. Since nearly first light on April 30, 1789, a crowd of people had begun to gather around Washington's home, and at noon they made their way to Federal Hall by way of Queen Street and Great Dock (both now Pearl Street) and Broad Street. [7]
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 ...
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.
(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 ...
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.
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 ...
Donald Trump Jr. is getting into the investment game. The son of the incoming president is reportedly joining 1789 Capital, a boutique investment company that focuses almost exclusively on ...
The United States Electoral College chose George Washington as the first President in 1789. [60] The national capital moved from New York to Philadelphia in 1790 and finally to Washington, D.C., in 1800. The major accomplishment of the Washington Administration was creating a strong national government that was recognized by all Americans. [61]