1789
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1789 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1789th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 7
July 14: Storming of the Bastille takes place in the French Revolution.
French Revolution: June 20: Tennis Court Oath, drawing by David.
April 28: Mutiny on the Bounty.
April 30: George Washington, inaugurated as the first president of the United States.
1790
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1790 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1790th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 79
1789
…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. German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth discovers the element uranium, while studying…
May 13: Battle of Reval
December 22: Capture of Izmail
Leopold I of Belgium
Jean-François Champollion