Editing 1789 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January]] &ndash; [[Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès]] publishes the pamphlet ''[[What Is the Third Estate?]]'' (''{{lang|fr|Qu'est-ce que le tiers-état?}}''), influential on the [[French Revolution]]. 
* [[January 7]] &ndash; The [[1788-89 United States presidential election]] and [[1789 United States House of Representatives elections|House of Representatives elections]] are held.
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Fort Harmar]]: The terms of the [[Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784)]] and the [[Treaty of Fort McIntosh]], between the United States Government and certain native American tribes, are reaffirmed, with some minor changes.
* [[January 21]] &ndash; The first [[American novel]], ''[[The Power of Sympathy]] or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth'', is printed in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. The anonymous author is [[William Hill Brown]].
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Georgetown University]] is founded in [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown, Maryland]] (part of modern-day Washington, D.C.), as the first [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] college in the United States.
* [[January 29]] &ndash; In [[Vietnam]], Emperor [[Quang Trung]] crushes the Chinese Qing forces in [[Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa|Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa]]. It is considered one of the greatest victories in Vietnamese military history.<ref>Spencer Tucker (1999). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WZry2NaH2_sC&pg=PA20 Vietnam]''. University Press of Kentucky. p. 21.</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[George Washington]] is unanimously elected the first president of the United States, by the [[United States Electoral College]].
* [[February 21]] &ndash; King [[Gustav III of Sweden]] enforces the [[Union and Security Act]], delivering the ''coup de grace'' to [[Sweden]]'s 70-year-old parliamentarian system, in favor of [[absolute monarchy]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/a/RR2Wyd/radet-som-foll-offer-for-det-gustavianska-envaldet|title=Rådet som föll offer för gustavianska enväldet|publisher=Svenska Dagbladet|author=Dick Harrison|language=Swedish|date=11 January 2020|accessdate=9 November 2024}}</ref>
* [[March]]
**The first version of a graphic description of a slave ship (the ''[[Brookes (ship)|Brookes]]'') is issued on behalf of the English [[Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade]].<ref>{{cite web|title=219 years ago - ''Description of a Slave Ship''|url=http://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2008/05/ship_brooks.html|year=2008|work=Rare Book Collections @ Princeton|publisher=Princeton University Library|access-date=2013-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204005129/http://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2008/05/ship_brooks.html |archive-date=February 4, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The ''Brookes'' - visualising the transatlantic slave trade|url=http://www.history.ac.uk/1807commemorated/exhibitions/museums/brookes.html|work=1807 Commemorated|year=2007|publisher=University of York Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past|access-date=2013-03-19}}</ref>
**In Southern Africa, the [[Xhosa Wars|Second Xhosa War]] between the [[Xhosa people]] and European settlers begins.<ref>George McCall Theal (2010). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=roAZ_axRUkkC&pg=PAPA484 History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi, from the Settlement of the Portuguese at Sofala in September 1505 to the Conquest of the Cape Colony by the British in September 1795, vol. 3]''. Cambridge University Press.</ref>
* [[March 4]] &ndash; At [[Federal Hall]] in New York City, the [[1st United States Congress]] meets, and declares the new [[United States Constitution]] to be in effect. The [[Bicameralism|bicameral]] United States Congress replaces the [[Unicameralism|unicameral]] [[Congress of the Confederation]], as the [[legislature]] of the [[federal government of the United States]].
* [[March 10]] &ndash; In [[Tokugawa Shogunate|Japan]], the [[Menashi–Kunashir rebellion]] begins between the [[Ainu people]] and Japanese.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=y-0EAQAAIAAJ&q=1789&pg=PA1789 Ampo], vol 18. University of California, 1986.</ref> 
* [[March 11]] &ndash; The [[Venetian arsenal, Corfu|Venetian arsenal]] on the island of [[Corfu]], containing {{convert|72000|lb}} of gunpowder and 600 bombshells, explodes during a fire, killing 180 bystanders and knocking down a seawall.<ref>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being a Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p61</ref>