What Happened in September 1789

Historical Events

Sep 2 US Treasury Department established by Congress

Alexander Hamilton Appointed

Sep 11 Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of the US Treasury

1st US Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton

The Friend of the People

Sep 12 Jean-Paul Marat publishes the first issue of his radical newspaper Le Publiciste parisien, later called L'Ami du peuple (The Friend of the People) in Paris

Revolutionary and Journalist Jean-Paul Marat

Sep 13 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks)
Sep 15 US Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State

Discovery of Mimas

Sep 17 William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn

Sep 18 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress
Sep 22 US Congress passes act requiring the first Postmaster General to report to the President through the Secretary of the Treasury

1st Chief Justice

Sep 24 President George Washington nominates John Jay for 1st Chief Justice

Sep 24 US Attorney General Office is created
Sep 24 US Congress establishes Post Office Department following the new constitution
Sep 24 US Federal Judiciary Act passes, creating a six-person Supreme Court

Bill of Rights

Sep 25 US Congress proposes the Bill of Rights

Sep 26 4th US Postmaster General: Samuel Osgood of Mass takes office

1st US Attorney General

Sep 26 Edmund Randolph becomes the 1st US Attorney General

US Attorney General and US Secretary of State Edmund Randolph

1st US Secretary of State

Sep 26 Thomas Jefferson appointed 1st US Secretary of State; John Jay becomes 1st US Chief Justice

Sep 29 US War Department establishes a regular army

Events in 1789

Famous Birthdays

Sep 1 Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, German composer and harpist, born in the Free Imperial City of Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1868)
Sep 3 Edmund Passy, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1870)
Sep 9 William Cranch Bond, American astronomer (codiscovered Hyperion), born in Falmouth, Maine (d. 1859)

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

Sep 15 1st major American novelist (The Last of the Mohicans), born in Burlington, New Jersey

Sep 28 Richard Bright, English physician (Bright's Disease/nephritis), born in Bristol, England (d. 1858)

Born in 1789

Famous Deaths

Sep 11 Luca Sorkočević, Croatian nobleman and composer (composed 1st Croatian symphony), commits suicide at 55
Sep 12 Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theorist, dies at 79
Sep 23 John Rogers, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
Sep 28 Thomas Day, British author and abolitionist (The History of Sandford and Merton), killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire at 41