On This Day

June 1789 in History

Events in History

  • Jun 1 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
  • Jun 3 Explorer Alexander Mackenzie sets out on his first expedition to the Pacific from Fort Chipewyan (finds the Arctic Ocean instead)

USABill of Rights

Jun 8 James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives

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The bill of rights as it was created on September 25, 1789
The bill of rights as it was created on September 25, 1789
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  • Jun 9 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver Island
  • Jun 13 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington

BoatMutiny on the Bounty

Jun 14 Captain William Bligh and his loyal men cast off from HMS Bounty reach Timor, after sailing 5,800 km in a 6-metre launch

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Lieutenant William Bligh is set adrift by the mutineers aboard the HMS Bounty on April 28, 1789
Lieutenant William Bligh is set adrift by the mutineers aboard the HMS Bounty on April 28, 1789
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  • Jun 17 French Revolution: During the meeting of the Estates-General, the Third Estate proclaims itself the 'National Assembly'
  • Jun 20 Tennis Court Oath (for a new constitution) in France made at Versailles

Event of interestEvent of Interest

Jun 23 French King Louis XVI rejects the demands of the Third Estate, calling itself the National Assembly, during the opening stages of the French Revolution

King of France Louis XVI
King of France
Louis XVI
  • Jun 27 French Revolution: King Louis XVI orders the nobility and clergy of the Estates-General to meet with the Third Estate, by then called the National Assembly

Birthdays in History

  • Jun 15 Josiah Henson, American slave and settlement founder (d. 1883)
  • Jun 30 Horace Vernet, French painter of battles and Orientalist subjects, born in Paris (d. 1863)

Deaths in History

  • Jun 12 Jean E Liotard [Turk], Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies