First inauguration of George Washington, 1789

First inauguration of George Washington

At Federal Hall in New York, then the capital of the United States, George Washington took the oath of office as the country’s first president.

Date

30 April 1789exact date

Place

Federal Halltoday: New York City, USA · North America

Participants

United States of America, George Washington

Threads

The world in the Age of Revolution

The oath was administered by Robert Livingston, Chancellor of New York. With this ceremony the executive branch of the federal government began to operate under the Constitution of 1787.

Two and a half months later, the Bastille fell in France.

Connections

Related events

Storming of the Bastille14 July 1789 · Western and Central Europein 1790 Lafayette gave President Washington the key to the Bastille, which is kept at Mount Vernon

Same participants

Adjacent events in the thread

Mutiny on the Bounty28 April 1789 · Southeast Asia and Oceania

Syrym Datuly’s uprising1783–1797 · Central and Northern Asia

Meanwhile in the world

Other regions, within 5 years of this event

Western and Central Europe

Storming of the Bastille14 July 1789
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen26 August 1789
Execution of Louis XVI21 January 1793
Siege of Toulon29 August – 19 December 1793
Kościuszko Uprising24 March – 16 November 1794

Eastern Europe

Siege of Izmail11 (22) December 1790
Second Partition of Poland12 (23) January 1793

Balkans and Anatolia

Treaty of Jassy29 December 1791 (9 January 1792)

Central and Northern Asia

Billings–Sarychev expedition25 October (5 November) 1785 – March 1794
Syrym Datuly’s uprising1783–1797

East Asia

Adam Laxman’s embassy to Japan13 (24) September 1792 – 8 (19) September 1793
Macartney Embassy to China14 September 1793
White Lotus Rebellionbetween 1794 and 1796 – 1804

Southeast Asia and Oceania

Mutiny on the Bounty28 April 1789

Latin America

Haitian Revolutionbetween 21 August and 22 August 1791 – 1 January 1804