The temperature on February 6, 1789 was about 2.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
January 30 » Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
July 12 » In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
August 4 » France: Members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
September 15 » The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
September 29 » The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
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