Events
- February 11 – The first session of the United States Senate is open to the public.
- March 14 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
- March 27 – The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six United States Navy vessels (in 1797 the first 3 frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution go into service), not to be confused with October 13, 1775 which is observed as the Navy's Birthday.
- July 17 – Whiskey Rebellion: 500 armed Pennsylvanians attack and burn the home of General John Neville.
- August 7 – Whiskey Rebellion: President Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 mobilize a federal army of 12,500 men. The force would later be put under the command of General "Light Horse Harry" Lee to be led into western Pennsylvania against the insurrection.
- September 10 – The University of Tennessee is established at Knoxville.
- November – Whiskey Rebellion: The federal army quells the uprising and begins the return march to Philadelphia with prisoners.
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“There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“On the most profitable lie, the course of events presently lays a destructive tax; whilst frankness invites frankness, puts the parties on a convenient footing, and makes their business a friendship.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
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