* 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.

In 1789 George Dance invented an Ammonite Order, a variant of Ionic substituting volutes in the form of fossil ammonites for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London.

Genealogical research in the United States was first systematized in the early 19th century, especially by John Farmer ( 1789 – 1838 ).

* John Brown ( Kentucky ) ( 1757 – 1837 ), U. S. representative ( VA, 1789 – 1792 ) and U. S. senator ( KY, 1793 – 1805 ); member of Continental Congress from Virginia

* 1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.

* 1789 – John Ruggles, American politician ( d. 1874 )

* 1789 – William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist ( d. 1855 )

* 1789 – Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.

The 1787 dismissal of Governor Patterson and his recall to London in 1789 dampened his brother's efforts, leading John to focus on his interests in the United States ( one of John's sons, Commodore Daniel Patterson, became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success ).

* 1789 – John Rogers, American politician ( b. 1723 )

Leading English cricketers first visited a foreign country in 1789, when John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, organised a tour of France.

* June 20 – John Ruggles, American politician ( b. 1789 )

* February 17 – John Martin, English painter ( b. 1789 )

** John Cook, American farmer and President of Delaware ( d. 1789 )

* April 24 – John Norvell, U. S. newspaperman and senator ( b. 1789 )

* December 6 – William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist ( b. 1789 )

* March 29 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician ( d. 1789 )

* September – John Cleland, English novelist ( d. 1789 )

The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which states in part, " The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker ..." The current speaker is John Boehner, a Republican who represents Ohio's 8th congressional district.

John Jay, who had been secretary for foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation from 1784 through their expiration in 1789, became the first Chief Justice of the United States in 1789, stepping down in 1795 to accept election as governor of New York, a post he held for two terms, retiring in 1801.

* Statesmen and public figures supporting the administrations of Presidents George Washington ( 1789 – 1797 ) and John Adams ( 1797 – 1801 ).

Cornetts and trombones also formed an independent ensemble of five to eight parts for ceremonial music: in France they were used thus up to Mersenne ’ s time ; in England for such music as John Adson ’ s Courtly Masquing Ayres ( 1621 ), and Matthew Locke ’ s music for ‘ His Majesty ’ s Sagbutts and Cornetts ’ ( 1661 ); in Germany for Turmmusik by J. C. Pezel ( e. g. Fünff-stimmigte blasende Music, 1685 ) and by Gottfried Reiche ; and in Italy in most important cities until the mid-18th century, including Bologna, where the Concerto Palatino was active until 1779 and Rome, where the Concerto Capitolino survived until 1789.

:— September, changed to Department of State ; Jefferson appointed ; John Jay continues to act as foreign affairs secretary until Jefferson's return from France ; from 1789 to 1883, however, foreign affairs of the United States are largely the responsibility of those wearing the gold braid of U. S. navy officers

From 1789 until 1802, the portion of Maryland converted into Washington, DC, was part of two US Congressional Districts, represented in 1801 by US Rep. John Chew Thomas from Maryland's 2nd, and US Rep. William Craik from Maryland's 3rd.