* 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 – 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.

Carlos María de Alvear ( October 25, 1789, Santo Ángel, Misiones – November 3, 1852, New York, United States ) was an Argentine soldier and statesman, Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in 1815.

* 1738 – Ethan Allen, American military leader ( d. 1789 )

Landau was later occupied by the French from 1680 to 1815, when it was one of the Décapole, the ten free cities of Alsace, and received its modern fortifications by Louis XIV's military architect Vauban in 1688 – 99, making the little city ( population in 1789 was still only approximately 5, 000 ) one of Europe's strongest citadels.

Ottoman military reform efforts begin with Selim III ( 1789 – 1807 ) who made the first major attempts to modernize the army along European lines.

His father, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck ( Schönhausen, 13 November 1771 – 22 November 1845 ), was a Junker estate owner and a former Prussian military officer ; his mother, Wilhelmine Luise Mencken ( Potsdam, 24 February 1789 – Berlin ), the well-educated daughter of a senior government official in Berlin.

* 1789 – Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.

* November 10 – Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, military leader ( b. 1789 )

* December 14 – George Washington, the military leader of the American Revolution, president of the Constitutional Convention ( 1787 ), and the first President of the United States ( 1789 – 97 ) ( b. 1732 )

* November 11 – Francisco Javier Mina, Spanish military leader ( b. 1789 ) ( executed )

For France however, the military defeat and the financial burden of the war weakened the monarchy and contributed to the advent of the French Revolution in 1789.

It is the first mineral to be named after someone, and was first described in 1789 for an occurrence in Haslach, Harzburg and Oberstein, Germany, and named for Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn ( 1733 – 1785 ), commander of the military forces of the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope from 1768 to 1780.

The Indian rocket experiences, including Munro's book of 1789, eventually led to the Royal Arsenal beginning a military rocket R & D program in 1801.

When Selim III came to the throne in 1789, an ambitious effort of military reform was launched, geared towards securing the Ottoman Empire.

In 1789 he received Prussia's highest military order, the Pour le Mérite, and in 1794 he became colonel of the Red Hussars.

* Thomas Hamilton ( writer ) ( 1789 – 1842 ), Scottish writer of prose and verse ( 1827 military novel, Cyril Thornton )

Whilst on furlough in Paris, Marceau joined in the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 – after that event he took his discharge from the regular army and returned to Chartres, but the opposition of his family soon compelled him to seek new military employment.

After the French Revolution began in 1789, de Bouillé retained control of the Three Bishoprics, and was also given military command of Alsace and Franche-Comté in 1790.

The conspiracy was discovered by the Portuguese colonial government in 1789, before the planned military rebellion could take place.

) Provinces which were under military threat were grouped into captaincies general, such as the Kingdom of Chile ( established in 1541 and established as a Bourbon captaincy general in 1789 ), and which were joint military and political commands with a certain level of autonomy.

He was made honorary Colonel-in-Chief of the Hanoverian Guard Foot Regiment 1789 – 1803, but his military training began in 1791, when he and Prince Ernest went to Hanover to study under the supervision of the Hanoverian commander Field Marshal von Freytag.

He served the position of military governorship of the Kingdom of Serbia from his capture of Belgrade in 1789 until his death, cooperating with the resistance fighters of Koča Anđelković.

In February 1789, Carl Theodor decreed that military gardens should be laid out in each garrison city.

The construction of the military garden was begun in July 1789, and an area of 800 by slightly less than 200 metres was quickly made ready for cultivation.

The Chinesischer Turm (" Chinese Tower ") is a 25 metre high wooden structure, first constructed in 1789 to 1790, from a design by the Mannheimer military architect Joseph Frey ( 1758 – 1819 ).