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* 1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
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* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
* 1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.
* Hatfield, Mark O., with the Senate Historical Office, Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789 – 1993 .( U. S. Government Printing Office, 1997 ), p. 219
* 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
* 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
Prince, Field-Marshal Abbas Mirza ( عباس میرزا in Persian ) born Navaa village ( August 26, 1789 – October 25, 1833 ), was a Qajar crown prince of Persia.
Abdülhamid I, Abdul Hamid I or Abd Al-Hamid I ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد اول ` Abdü ’ l-Ḥamīd-i evvel ), which translates to the Servant of God ( March 20, 1725 – April 7, 1789 ), was the 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
The Corsican language has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs ; earlier by those of the Medieval Italian powers: Tuscany ( 828 – 1077 ), Pisa ( 1077 – 1282 ) and Genoa ( 1282 – 1768 ), more recently by France ( 1768 – present ), which, since 1789, has promulgated the official Parisian French.
* 1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician ( d. 1789 )
Ethan Allen ( – February 12, 1789 ) was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician.
An exception is the 1789 publication Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White ( 1720 – 1793 ), considered by some to be one of the earliest texts on ecology.
1789 and United
In 1788, with the approval of Congress, the Articles were replaced by the United States Constitution and the new government began operations in 1789.
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage says, " The list contains ( in approximate historical order from 1789 to 1939 ) such terms as Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, United Stater.
When the United States ( US ) government was formed in 1789, Boudinot was elected from New Jersey to the US House of Representatives.
On September 24, 1789, he was nominated by President George Washington to the newly created position of judge of the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania.
* 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U. S. Electoral College.
Elected unanimously as the first President of the United States in 1789, he attempted to bring rival factions together to unify the nation.
George Washington takes Oath of office of the President of the United States | the oath of office of President of the United States | the President of the United States, April 30, 1789.
At his inauguration, Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States of America on April 30, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.
The 1st United States Congress voted to pay Washington a salary of $ 25, 000 a year — a large sum in 1789.
Genealogical research in the United States was first systematized in the early 19th century, especially by John Farmer ( 1789 – 1838 ).
Two major revolutions occurred during the 18th century, in the United States ( 1776 ) and in France ( 1789 ), leading to the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen respectively, both of which established certain legal rights.
Congress regards impeachment as a power to be used only in extreme cases ; the House has initiated impeachment proceedings only 64 times since 1789 ( most recently against Judge Thomas Porteous of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ) with only the following 19 of these proceedings actually resulting in the House passing Articles of Impeachment:
* 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives ; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights ; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
* 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland ( now a part of Washington, D. C .)
1789 and States
* 1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
1789 and Department
* 1789 – The first U. S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established ( it will be later renamed Department of State ).
* 1789 – The United States Department of State is established ( formerly known as the " Department of Foreign Affairs ").
The House of Representatives and Senate approved legislation to establish a Department of Foreign Affairs on July 21, 1789, and President Washington signed it into law on July 27, making the Department of Foreign Affairs the first Federal agency to be created under the new Constitution.
In September 1789, additional legislation changed the name of the agency to the Department of State and assigned to it a variety of domestic duties.
The War Department, headed by the Secretary of War, was created by Act of Congress in 1789 and was responsible for both the Army and Navy until the founding of a separate Department of the Navy in 1798.
:— September, changed to Department of State ; Jefferson appointed ; John Jay continues to act as foreign affairs secretary until Jefferson's return from France ; from 1789 to 1883, however, foreign affairs of the United States are largely the responsibility of those wearing the gold braid of U. S. navy officers
With creation of the departments by the Estates-General of 1789, Metz became the capital of the Department of Moselle.
On July 24, 1789, President Washington asked Thomson to deliver the seal to the Department of Foreign Affairs in the person of Roger Alden, who kept it until the Department of State was created.
A department for domestic concern was first considered by the 1st United States Congress in 1789, but those duties were placed in the Department of State.
In July 1789 the U. S. Customs Service and the U. S. Immigration Service were both created within the Department of the Treasury.
* July 27, 1789: United States Department of State, was established, originally named the Department of Foreign Affairs, ch.
The War Department existed from 1789 until September 18, 1947, when it split into Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force and joined the Department of the Navy as part of the new joint National Military Establishment ( NME ), renamed the United States Department of Defense in 1949.
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