Gilded Age · event 1 of 14

30 April 1789

Washington is inaugurated on Wall Street. George Washington takes the oath as first President of the United States on the balcony of Federal Hall at 26 Wall Street. New York is the national capital; it loses the seat of government to Philadelphia the following year.

The Gilded Age era

  1. 30 April 1789
  2. 1799
  3. 1811
  4. 26 October 1825
  5. 16 December 1835
  6. 14 October 1842
  7. 1845
  8. 1857
  9. 13 July 1863
  10. 24 May 1883
  11. 28 October 1886
  12. 12 March 1888
  13. 1 January 1892
  14. 1 January 1898

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