* 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 strait was explored in detail between 1789 and 1791 by Manuel Quimper, José María Narváez, Juan Carrasco, Gonzalo López de Haro, and Francisco de Eliza.

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.

Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y Sáenz was born on October 3, 1789, in the town of Tecoh, Yucatán, to Anastasio de Zavala y Velázquez and María Bárbara Sáenz.

Don José Ramón Rodil y Campillo, 1st Marquis of Rodil and 3rd Viscount of Trobo, ( Santa María de Trobo, Lugo Province, February 5, 1789 – Madrid, February 20, 1853 ) was a Spanish general and statesman, born in Santa María del Trovo, Galicia region.

of Firby's relation Isabella Hammond of Marylebone, daughter of Grewelthorpe shoemaker Thomas Hammond and wife Elizabeth of Norfolk House, married in 1852 at Kirkby Malzeard ( in Ripon District ) George Firby b. 1819 Grewelthorpe, son of her relation Margaret Hammond and Robert Firby b. 1789 Catterick, himself son of George Firby b. 1753 Hudswell and Elizabeth Wood of Ripon.

* The Spanish Pragmatic Sanction of 1830, issued March 29, 1830 by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, ratified a Decree of 1789 by Charles IV of Spain, which had replaced the semi-Salic system established by Philip V with the mixed succession system that had characterized historically the Castilian monarchy ( upon which the Spanish monarchy draws its traditions ), as noted by the inheritance by queens regnant Urraca of Castile, Isabella I of Castile, and Joanna I of Castile.

* Lady Isabella Caroline Howard ( 1771 – 1848 ), married John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor on 27 July 1789 and had issue

* 18 February-A school opens in an unfinished church building is Sydney ; the first school had been established in 1789, Isabella Rosson was the first teacher.

The island was further explored by Spain in 1789 with Esteban José Martínez, who established the settlement of Yuquot and the artillery battery of Fort San Miguel at Friendly Cove, which Spain called Puerto de San Lorenzo de Nuca.

The terms of the convention called for Spain to turn over the Britain the buildings and land that had been seized in 1789.

In 1789, by order of the King of Spain, an overland route was laid out to connect the cities of St. Louis and New Orleans.

* In 1789, El Camino Real, also known as " The King's Highway ," was marked out by orders from the King of Spain.

French planters and their slaves emigrated to Trinidad during the French Revolution ( 1789 ) from Martinique, including a number of West Africans, and French creoles from Saint Vincent, Grenada, and Dominica, establishing a local community before Trinidad and Tobago were taken from Spain by the British.

The Jay – Gardoqui Treaty ( also known as the Liberty Treaty with Spain ) of 1789 between the United States and Spain guaranteed Spain's exclusive right to navigate the Mississippi River for 25 years.

Category: 1789 in Spain

French planters and their slaves emigrated to Trinidad during the French Revolution ( 1789 ) from Martinique, including a number of West Africans, and French creoles from Saint Vincent, Grenada, and Dominica establishing a local community before Trinidad and Tobago were taken from Spain by the British.

Although several attempts to revert to the traditional order were made, such as the Decree of 1789 by Charles IV of Spain ( see below ), the succession question only became pressing when, by 1830, Ferdinand VII found himself ailing, without any issue but with a pregnant wife.

French planters and their slaves emigrated to Trinidad during the French Revolution ( 1789 ) from Martinique, including a number of West Africans, and French creoles from Saint Vincent, Grenada, Saint Lucia and Dominica, establishing a local community before Trinidad and Tobago were taken from Spain by the British.

He joined the British Army the 38th ( 1st Staffordshire ) Regiment of Foot in 1789 and had a distinguished career in Flanders, the West Indies, Spain and North America.

He traveled on April 2, 1786, to the modern-day Dubrovnik ( a vassal city of the Ottoman Empire, then better known with other, Italian name Ragusa ), and then to Constantinople in Turkey ( until September 23, 1786 ), Russia, ( from September 26, 1786 until September 7, 1787, slightly under one year ), Sweden, ( in Stockholm as from September 10, 1787 until November 2, 1787 ), Norway, from November 10, 1787 until departing from Karlskrona in Sweden from December 17, 1787 ), Denmark ( from September 23, 1787 until March 10, 1788 after being received in Denmark orders of capture from Spain no later than January 22, 1788 ), the Free Hanseatic Town of Hamburg, ( from ( April 1, 1788 until the April 27, 1788 ), the Free Town of Bremen, ( leaving on April 27 ), Holland, ( from around the May 2, 1788 until around June 16, 1788 ), some actual Belgian towns and German cities along the Rhine river, Swiss Basel, ( arrival July 30, 1788, and then again after touring German-speaking Switzerland on October 12, 1788 ), Swiss Geneva ( arrival September 25, 1788 ), and France, ( entry around the 3rd and 4th weeks of September 1788, two stays in Marseilles, the second departing there towards Bordeaux on February 26, 1789 via inland waterways ), travels to Rouen, Le Havre and Paris around May 5, 1789, getting papers as " Mr. Meeroff from Livonia " to arrive in Dover, ( England ) and then London on June 19, 1789, taking lodgings at the house of his British friend, " A Barlow ", at 47 Jermyn Street ).

The attempts to abduct Miranda by the diplomatic representatives of Spain failed as the Russian Ambassador in London, Semyon Vorontsov, declared on August 4, 1789 to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds, that Sebastian ( Francisco ) de Miranda, although a Spanish subject, was a member of the Russian diplomatic mission in London at the service of H. R. H. Empress Catherine II of Russia.

Ill-health compelled him for a time to withdraw from active service, but he devoted this forced leisure to historical research, and in 1789 he was appointed by the crown to examine the national archives relating to the maritime history of Spain.

The Pragmatic Sanction of 1830 (), issued March 29, 1830 by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, ratified a Decree of 1789 by Charles IV of Spain, which had replaced the semi-Salic system established by Philip V of Spain with the mixed succession system that predated the Bourbon monarchy ( see also Carlism ).

The Nootka Sound dispute began in 1789 when Spain sent José Martínez to occupy Nootka Sound and establish exclusive Spanish sovereignty.