He recorded his discovery as follows: " The great light of my forty-foot telescope was so useful that on the 17th of September, 1789, I remarked the seventh satellite, then situated at its greatest western elongation.

The skulls were sent to the renowned Dutch naturalist Petrus Camper, who died in 1789 before he was able to publish his discovery that the rhinos of Java were a distinct species.

A small obelisk unveiled in 1939, adjacent to the railway station and the avenue of tall palms in McKell Park, commemorates the discovery and naming of the Hawkesbury River by Governor Phillip in 1789.

It is very likely however that the discovery and naming of the islands goes back to the London ship Loyalty ( also Loyalist, Jethro Daggett master ), being on a South Sea trading voyage from 1789 till 1790.

Telescopium Herschelii ( Latin for Herschel's telescope ) was a constellation created by Maximilian Hell in 1789 to honor the famous English astronomer Sir William Herschel's discovery of the planet Uranus.

Pitchblende from the Johanngeorgenstadt deposit in Germany was used by M. Klaproth in 1789 to discover the element uranium.

It was later shown to be barium carbonate and in 1789 the eminent German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner named the mineral Witherite in his honour.

It is the first mineral to be named after someone, and was first described in 1789 for an occurrence in Haslach, Harzburg and Oberstein, Germany, and named for Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn ( 1733 – 1785 ), commander of the military forces of the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope from 1768 to 1780.

While he was working in his experimental laboratory in Berlin in 1789, Klaproth was able to precipitate a yellow compound ( likely sodium diuranate ) by dissolving pitchblende in nitric acid and neutralizing the solution with sodium hydroxide.

* 1789 – The United States Department of War is established.

This is due to the fact that the clan originally immigrated to Kamchatka from Kunashir in 1789.

Lavoisier's Traité élémentaire de chimie ( Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, 1789, translated into English by Scotsman Robert Kerr ) is considered to be the first modern chemistry textbook.

" The term is traceable to the 1789 Form of Government of the PC ( U. S. A .) and the Presbyterian understanding of the pastoral office.

( For this reason, many modern American law schools teach the common law of crime as it stood in England in 1789, because that centuries-old English common law is a necessary foundation to interpreting modern criminal statutes.

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* 1789 – The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.

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.

On 4 August 1789, the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism ( although at that point there had been sufficient peasant revolts to almost end feudalism already ), in what is known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate.

Historians widely regard the Revolution as one of the most important events in human history, and the end of the early modern period, which started around 1500, is traditionally attributed to the onset of the French Revolution in 1789.

When the French Constituent Assembly abolished the " feudal regime " in August 1789 this is what was meant.

* 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U. S. Electoral College.

After finding the door to their chamber locked and guarded, the Assembly met nearby on a tennis court and pledged the Tennis Court Oath on 20 June 1789, binding them " never to separate, and to meet wherever circumstances demand, until the constitution of the kingdom is established and affirmed on solid foundations.

The synonym shire is not used for Irish counties, although the Marquessate of Downshire was named in 1789 after County Down.

* 1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig.

* 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 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.

* 1789 – The first U. S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established ( it will be later renamed Department of State ).

* 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland ( now a part of Washington, D. C .)

* 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.

Marbury's argument is that in the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress granted the Supreme Court original jurisdiction over petitions for writs of mandamus.

A “ Letter from an Officer of Marines at New South Wales, 16 November 1788 ”, published in the London newspaper, The World, 15 May 1789, reported the glowing description of the island and its prospects by Philip Gidley King, but also drew attention to the fatal defect of the lack of a safe port: “ The said Island lies near Port Jackson, and is nearly as large as the Isle of Wight.

* 1789 – North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U. S. state.

* 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.

It was probably Abbe Antonio Jose Cavanilles, Director of the Royal Gardens of Madrid, who should be credited with the attempt to scientifically define the genus, since he not only received the first specimens from Mexico in 1789, but named the first three species that flowered from the cuttings.

Mercy had no children but has been credited with teaching her stepdaughters to read and do needlework before her death from tuberculosis in 1789.

He is often credited with the establishment of blue underglaze transfer printing in Staffordshire in 1781 – 84, and with the definition and introduction in c. 1789 – 91 of the improved formula for bone china ( a form of soft-paste porcelain ) which thereafter remained the standard for all English wares of this kind.

His incendiary journalism is credited with playing a significant role in the Women's March on Versailles in October 1789, the suspension of the monarchy on August 10, 1792, the September Massacres and inciting other actions of the revolutionary crowd.

* 1789 – John Martin, English painter ( d. 1854 )

* February 17 – John Martin, English painter ( b. 1789 )

Andrew's mother, Angeline Martin ( 1811 – 1849 ), was the eldest of Armand ( 1785 – 1861 ) and Mary ( née Ryan, 1789 – 1866 ) Martin's nine children.

Krieghoff traveled to Paris in 1844, where he copied masterpieces at the Louvre under the direction of Michel Martin Drolling ( 1789 – 1851 ).

Riksdagsmusiken, or the Riksdag Music, is a suite of music composed by Joseph Martin Kraus, for the grand opening, in 1789, of the Riksdag of the Estates in Sweden.

Alexander Martin ( 1740November 10, 1807 ) was the fourth and seventh Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1782 to 1784 and from 1789 to 1792.

In 1789, Martin Chittenden graduated from Dartmouth College.

Martin was in Paris when the French Revolution began during 1789.

John Martin ( 19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854 ) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator.

Martin was born in July 1789, in a one-room family cottage, at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham in Northumberland, the 4th son of Fenwick Martin, a one time fencing master.

* William D. Martin ( 1789 – 1833 ), US Congressman from South Carolina

* John Martin ( painter ) ( 1789 – 1854 ), English artist

In 1789, he and surveyor Martin Armstrong persuaded lawmakers to establish Clarksville as a tobacco inspection point.

On his return to England, Bonomi got married to Jessie, daughter of artist John Martin ( 1789 – 1854 ), in 1844.

( Martin served in the same capacity with the state of North Carolina from 1783 to 1789.

" It was an appointment Martin would continue to hold until 1789.

( In a 1789 letter to United States Senator from Virginia William Grayson, Henry reminded his political ally that Martin had been so effective in his Indian dealings during the Revolutionary War that British agents had offered rewards to their Indian allies for Martin's scalp.

But the forces allied against Martin overwhelmed Henry's defense, and in 1789, his career as Indian agent finished, General Martin sold his large holdings in the Powell's Valley and near Cumberland Gap and returned to his lands in Henry County next door to Henry's to spend the rest of his life.

Martin von Wahrendorff ( 1789 – 1861 ) was a Swedish diplomat and inventor.