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1789

The French Revolution

1787

Constitution of The United States

September 17, 1787 The Constitution of the United States is signed in order to replace the Articles of Confederation and provide a stronger central government.

1788

The Estates- General

  • Called by King Louis XVI to propose solutions to the governments financial problems.
  • Was the first meeting called since 1614.
  • Ended when the Third Estate formed into a national assembly inviting the other two to join, against the King's wishes causing the opening of the French Revolution.

Discovering A New Planet

  • Herschel believed it to be a comet at first, but realized that it was moving to slow. It was moving so slow that it had to be outside of the Sun's gravity.

1781

William Herschel

1784

The Annexation of Crimea

  • William Herschel had accidently discovered a new planet. Up to this point there were only five other planets known in the solar system.

The outcome of the Russian-Turkish War, under a treaty Crimea was recognized as an independant territory.

Mercury

Venus

Mars

  • March 13, 1781 Herschel, while searching for double stars, noticed a small object moving across the sky.

Important for Russia expansion to have more control to ports leading to the black sea.

Jupiter

Saturn

  • After the course of several nights he realized that it continued to slowly move across the sky

1790

Antoine-Laurent de Laviosier

  • Laviosier formulates Table of 31 Chemical Elements
  • He named the element of Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen.

1781

"Critique of Reason"

Immanuel Kant

1783

The End of A War

  • He also discovered oxygen's role in combustion and respiration
  • The Treaty of Paris of 1783 negotiated between the United States and Britain, ended the revolutionary

war and recognized American independance.

Storming of the Bastille

  • Kant was and is one of the most influential philosophers of all time.
  • Treaty was negotiated by John Adams, enjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Laurens
  • The Bastille was a Medieval fortress and prison located in Paris, and it represented royal authority.
  • "Critique of Reason" is the first of his great works.
  • Although it only contained seven inmates at the time of the its storming, it was a symbol of abuse to the monarchy.

1785

String Quartet

No.19 "Dissonance"

  • Kant aimed to show the relationship between reason and knowledge.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed the last of six quartets composed between 1782-1785.

Nicknamed "Dissonance" on account of its slow introduction in the first movement.

  • His works and words are still found today

1789

The First President

  • Washington is elected with all 69 electoral votes
  • He takes oath of office in New York City.

Vice President- John Adams

Secretary of State- Thomas Jefferson

Secretary of Treasury- Alexander Hamilton

The Decade of 1780-1790

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