* 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.

* 1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.

* 1789 – French revolutionary and radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gave a speech in response to the dismissal of Jacques Necker France's finance minister the day before.

* January 12 – Jacques Duphly, French composer ( d. 1789 )

* Jacques Duphly ( 1715 – 1789 ), harpsichordist and composer

Jacques Necker ( 30 September 1732 – 9 April 1804 ) was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI, a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789.

* Jacques Baby ( 1731 – 1789 ), Canadian fur trader

The sudden dismissal of popular finance minister Jacques Necker by King Louis XVI on 11 July 1789 proved the spark that lit the fuse of Desmoulins ' fame.

* Jacob II Bernoulli ( 1759 – 1789 ; also known as Jacques ) Physicist and mathematician.

In 1788, Louis XVI of France proposed convocation of the Estates-General of France after the interval of more than a century and a half, and the invitation of Jacques Necker to writers to state their views as to the organization of the Estates, enabled Sieyès to publish his celebrated January 1789 pamphlet, Qu ’ est-ce que le tiers-état?

* Jacques de Choiseul-Stainville, Count of Choiseul ( 1727 – 1789 ), Marshal of France since 13. 6. 1783

In early 1789, the king's financial minister Jacques Necker was warned that the countryside risked a general uprising, and in April, peasant uprisings were increasingly organised and anti-seigneurial in character.

On 11 July 1789 the king dismissed his financial minister, Jacques Necker, who had been sympathetic to the Third Estate.

Jacques Roux ( 21 August 1752 – 10 February 1794 ) was a radical Roman Catholic priest that took an active role in the revolutionary politics of Paris 1789, during the French Revolution.

On 11 July 1789, with troops at Versailles, Sèvres, the Champ de Mars, and Saint-Denis, Louis XVI, acting under the influence of the conservative nobles of his privy council, dismissed and banished his finance minister, Jacques Necker, who had been sympathetic to the Third Estate, and completely reconstructed the ministry.

* January 12 – Jacques Duphly, composer ( died 1789 )

Jacques Duphly ( January 12, 1715 – July 15, 1789 ) was a French harpsichordist and organist, and the composer of bright, lively, and attractive keyboard music.

During the next two centuries, no changes were made to the edifice which was the stage for several famous events during the French Revolution ( notably the murder of the last provost of the merchants Jacques de Flesselles by an angry crowd on 14 July 1789 and the coup of 9 Thermidor Year II when Robespierre was shot in the jaw and arrested in the Hôtel de Ville with his followers ).

In 1789, when Jacques Necker was dismissed, Foullon was appointed Controller-General of Finances and minister of the king's household, having been the choice of the reactionary party as a substitute.

Jacques de Flesselles ( 1721, Paris – 14 July 1789 ) was a French public servant and one of the first victims of the French Revolution.

* Jacques de Flesselles ( 1721 – 14 July 1789 ), provost of Paris assassinated during the storming of the Bastille