January 11 » William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
January 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
July 13 » The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
September 17 » The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
Day of death April 4, 1789
The temperature on April 4, 1789 was about -0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder windstil. 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.).
June 8 » James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
August 26 » The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
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.
November 20 » New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
December 11 » The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
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