May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
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.
September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
Day of death January 16, 1789
The temperature on January 16, 1789 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
April 20 » George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
June 8 » James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
July 14 » French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
September 11 » Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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.
December 11 » The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
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