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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. [ 1 ] January 23 – Georgetown University is founded in what would become Washington, D.C. , becoming the first Catholic college in the United States.
(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 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]
Jefferson's first inaugural address on March 4, 1801, was the first such speech in the new capital of Washington, D.C.. In it, Jefferson promised "a wise and frugal government" to preserve order among the inhabitants but would "leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry, and improvement".
In 2005, a 500-year-old map that identified the new world as “America” sold for a whopping $1 million at auction. These early maps, which are are prized for their historical significance and ...
Down an almost hidden driveway, a very private retreat for sale just outside of Des Moines includes a custom-built retro home and a lifetime of protection for its 20-acre tree-filled footprint.
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 ...
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 ...