March 11 – The
Venetian arsenal on the island of
Corfu, containing 72,000 pounds (33,000 kg) of gunpowder and 600 bombshells, explodes during a fire, killing 180 bystanders and knocking down a seawall.[6]
April 6 – At Federal Hall, the
United States Senate attains its first
quorum, and elects
John Langdon of
Pennsylvania as its first
President pro tempore. Later that day, the Senate and the House of Representatives meet in joint session for the first time, and the electoral votes of the first U.S. Presidential election are counted. General George Washington is certified as President-elect, and John Adams is certified as Vice-President elect.
July 12 – An angry Parisian crowd, inflamed by a speech from journalist
Camille Desmoulins, demonstrates against the King's decision to dismiss Minister Necker.
July 13 – The people begin to seize arms for the defense of Paris.
French Revolution:
Storming of the Bastille – Citizens of Paris storm the fortress of the
Bastille, and free the only seven prisoners held. In rural areas, peasants attack the manors of the nobility.
Survivors of the
mutiny on the Bounty, including Captain
William Bligh and 18 others, reach
Timor after a nearly 4,000-mile (6,400 km) journey in an open boat.
The Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elementary Treatise of Chemistry), an influential chemistry textbook by
Antoine Lavoisier, is published; translated into English in
1790, it comes to be considered the first modern chemical textbook.
November 10 –
Richard Caswell, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman and Governor of North Carolina (1776–80, 1785–87) (b.
1729)
November 17 –
Samuel Holden Parsons, American major general of the Revolutionary War, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (b.
1737)
^"Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being a Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p61
^
abcdefgHarper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p168-169
March 11 – The
Venetian arsenal on the island of
Corfu, containing 72,000 pounds (33,000 kg) of gunpowder and 600 bombshells, explodes during a fire, killing 180 bystanders and knocking down a seawall.[6]
April 6 – At Federal Hall, the
United States Senate attains its first
quorum, and elects
John Langdon of
Pennsylvania as its first
President pro tempore. Later that day, the Senate and the House of Representatives meet in joint session for the first time, and the electoral votes of the first U.S. Presidential election are counted. General George Washington is certified as President-elect, and John Adams is certified as Vice-President elect.
July 12 – An angry Parisian crowd, inflamed by a speech from journalist
Camille Desmoulins, demonstrates against the King's decision to dismiss Minister Necker.
July 13 – The people begin to seize arms for the defense of Paris.
French Revolution:
Storming of the Bastille – Citizens of Paris storm the fortress of the
Bastille, and free the only seven prisoners held. In rural areas, peasants attack the manors of the nobility.
Survivors of the
mutiny on the Bounty, including Captain
William Bligh and 18 others, reach
Timor after a nearly 4,000-mile (6,400 km) journey in an open boat.
The Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elementary Treatise of Chemistry), an influential chemistry textbook by
Antoine Lavoisier, is published; translated into English in
1790, it comes to be considered the first modern chemical textbook.
November 10 –
Richard Caswell, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman and Governor of North Carolina (1776–80, 1785–87) (b.
1729)
November 17 –
Samuel Holden Parsons, American major general of the Revolutionary War, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (b.
1737)
^"Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being a Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p61
^
abcdefgHarper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p168-169