George Washington started his 220-mile journey to become the first President of the United States.
The Senate convened for the first time after the new federal government was set up in the USA.
The U.S. Constitution is put into effect.
George Washington is elected as first President of the United States.
The Power of Symphony by William Hill Brown became the first novel published in America.
New York became the 11th state to join the United States of America.
Virginia became the 10th state to join the United States of America.
New Hampshire became the 9th state to join the United States of America.
The Day of the Tiles took place.
South Carolina became the 8th state to join the United States of America.
Maryland became the 7th state to join the United States of America.
Massachusetts became the 6th state to join the United States of America.
Isaac Briggs & William Longstreet was awarded a patent for the first steamboat in the US.
The first Europeans settle in Australia.
Connecticut became the 5th state to join the United States of America.
Georgia became the 4th state to join the United States of America.
New Jersey became the third state to ratify the US constitution.
Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the US constitution.
Delaware became the first state to ratify the US constitution.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera 'Don Giovanni' premiered in Prague.
39 out of 50 delegates signed the US Constitution and shared it publicly.
The Northwest Ordinance was enacted; it is considered one of the most important legislative acts that the Confederation Congress of the US passed.
Delegates started to gather in Philadelphia to draw up the US constitution.
Astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered the first two moons of Uranus, Titania & Oberon.
Mission Santa Barbara was founded in California by Franciscan missionaries from Spain.
The Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest musical society in the US, was formed.
Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts starting the Shay's Rebellion.
The US Congress made a final decision on the use of the US Dollar as currency.
The satirical book 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' by Robert Burns was published.
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed between the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States of America.
Mozart published the Haydn Quartets in Vienna.
The US adopted the name 'dollars' and started using decimal coinage.
Scottish geologist James Hutton publicly read his theory on uniformitarianism for the first time at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Benjamin Franklin announced his invention of bifocal eyeglasses.
Richard Crosbie became the first Irish man to fly a hot air balloon in Ireland.
Hot air balloon crosses the English Channel.
French aviator Élisabeth Thible became the first woman to fly an untethered hot air balloon.
The First American Regiment was authorized by the Continental Congress proceeding the American Revolutionary War.
John Wesley opened the first Methodist Church in the US.
William Pitt the Younger became the youngest British Prime Minister ever at age 24.
French chemistry and physics teacher Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made his first successful balloon flight.
John Austin became the last person to be publicly hanged on London's Tyburn Gallows.
Mozart's Symphony No.36 premiered in Linz, Austria.
Aviation pioneers, the Montgolfier brothers, made the first human ascent in a hot air balloon.
US Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, wrote, 'There never was a good war or a bad peace,' in a letter to Josiah Quincy.
The United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary war.
Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers released the first-ever unmanned hydrogen balloon.
A great ball of fire was witnessed over the east coast of Great Britain.
Mount Asama erupted in Japan, killing around 1,400 people.
A violent eight-month volcano eruption in Iceland started.
