Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
The US Bill of Rights was ratified when Virginia gave its approval, which became amendments 1-10 of the constitution.
The first edition of the world's first Sunday newspaper, The Observer, was published.
Mozart's last opera, 'The Magic Flute,' premiered in Vienna.
HMS Pandora sank at The Great Barrier Reef after a voyage to hunt down the Bounty mutineers in 1790.
African American almanac author Benjamin Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson asking for justice for African Americans.
The Treaty of Sistova was signed, which ended the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
Samuel Briggs and his son patented his nail-making machine.
King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family fled their home at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Vermont became the 14th state to join the United States of America.
