* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

* 1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.

* 1789 – The United States Department of War is established.

* 1714 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter ( d. 1789 )

* 1789 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician ( d. 1857 )

* Hatfield, Mark O., with the Senate Historical Office, Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789 – 1993 .( U. S. Government Printing Office, 1997 ), p. 219

* 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.

* 1789 – Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentine military ( d. 1871 )

* 1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.

* 1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, French wife of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden ( d. 1860 )

* 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.

Prince, Field-Marshal Abbas Mirza ( عباس میرزا in Persian ) born Navaa village ( August 26, 1789 – October 25, 1833 ), was a Qajar crown prince of Persia.

Abdülhamid I, Abdul Hamid I or Abd Al-Hamid I ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد اول ` Abdü ’ l-Ḥamīd-i evvel ), which translates to the Servant of God ( March 20, 1725 – April 7, 1789 ), was the 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

* 1789 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan ( b. 1725 )

* 1789 – Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist ( b. 1722 )

Category: History of the United States ( 1789 – 1849 )

The Corsican language has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs ; earlier by those of the Medieval Italian powers: Tuscany ( 828 – 1077 ), Pisa ( 1077 – 1282 ) and Genoa ( 1282 – 1768 ), more recently by France ( 1768 – present ), which, since 1789, has promulgated the official Parisian French.

* 1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician ( d. 1789 )

* 1789 – The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.

* Susannah Darwin ( 10 April 1729 – 29 September 1789 )

Ethan Allen ( – February 12, 1789 ) was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician.

An exception is the 1789 publication Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White ( 1720 – 1793 ), considered by some to be one of the earliest texts on ecology.

The meeting of the Estates General on 5 May 1789 in Versailles.

The Estates-General convened in the Grands Salles des Menus-Plaisirs in Versailles on 5 May 1789 and opened with a three-hour speech by Necker.

Engraving of the Women's March on Versailles, 5 October 1789

On 6 October 1789, the King and the royal family moved from Versailles to Paris under the " protection " of the National Guards, thus legitimizing the National Assembly.

The members of the Estates-General assembled in the Palace of Versailles in May 1789, but the debate as to which voting system should be used soon became an impasse.

When a mob from Paris attacked the royal palace at Versailles in October 1789 seeking redress for their severe poverty, the royal family was forced to move to the Tuileries Palace in Paris.

* 1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.

* 1789 – French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October

During the Revolution of 1789, city officials had proposed to the Convention to rename Versailles Berceau-de-la-Liberté (" Cradle of Liberty "), but they had to retract their proposal when confronted with the objections of the majority of the population.

Versailles was again the unofficial capital of France from June 1722, when Louis XV returned to Versailles, until October 1789, when a Parisian mob forced Louis XVI and the royal family to move to Paris.

Versailles in 1789.

By 1789, the population had reached 60, 000 inhabitants, and Versailles was now the seventh or eighth-largest city of France, and one of the largest cities of Europe.

The Estates-General met in Versailles on 5 May 1789.

It was not until 1911 that Versailles definitely recovered its level of population of 1789, with 60, 458 inhabitants at the 1911 census.

The Edict of Versailles did not legally proclaim freedom of religion in France – this took two more years, with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789 – however, it was an important step in eliminating religious tensions and it officially ended religious persecution within his realm.

On 5 October 1789, an angry mob of Parisian working women was incited by revolutionaries and marched on the Palace of Versailles, where the royal family lived.

5 May 1789: Opening of the Estates-General in Versailles

Louis XVII ( Versailles 27 March 1785 – Paris 8 June 1795 ), from birth to 1789 known as Louis-Charles, Duke of Normandy ; then from 1789 to 1791 as Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France ; and from 1791 to 1792 as Louis-Charles, Prince Royal of France, was the second son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.

On 6 October 1789 the royal family was forced to move from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace in Paris where they spent the next two years.

The royal family was ripped away from their Palace at Versailles, the day after the 5 October 1789 women's march on Versailles.