* 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 – 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.

Contemporaneously to English Gothic, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir (" black novel ") in France, by such writers as François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, Gaston Leroux, Baculard d ' Arnaud, and Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Madame de Genlis and the Schauerroman (" shudder novel ") in Germany by such writers as Friedrich Schiller, author of The Ghost-Seer ( 1789 ) and Christian Heinrich Spiess, author of Das Petermännchen ( 1791 / 92 ).

Stéphanie, Grand Duchess of Baden ( Stéphanie Louise Adrienne de Beauharnais ) ( August 28, 1789 – January 29, 1860 ) was the consort of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden.

* Princess Stéphanie of France ( 1789 – 1860 ), adopted daughter of Napoléon I, Emperor of the French, and wife of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden

Hereditary Prince Karl married Stéphanie de Beauharnais ( 28 August 1789 – 29 January 1860 ), daughter of Claude de Beauharnais in Paris on 8 April 1806.

* Charles, the future 2nd Grand Duke of Baden ( June 8, 1786 in Karlsruhe – December 8, 1818 in Rastatt ) married on April 8, 1806 Stéphanie de Beauharnais ( August 28, 1789 – January 29, 1860 ).

Lavoisier's Traité élémentaire de chimie ( Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, 1789, translated into English by Scotsman Robert Kerr ) is considered to be the first modern chemistry textbook.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 ; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

Adanson ( 1763 ), de Jussieu ( 1789 ), and Candolle ( 1819 ) all proposed various alternative natural systems that were widely followed.

Antoine Lavoisier, in his famed 1789 Traité Élémentaire de Chimie ( Elements of Chemistry ), refers to Bergmann ’ s work and discusses the concept of elective affinities or attractions.

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Nicolas de Condorcet was especially noted for his advocacy, in his articles published in the Journal de la Société de 1789, and by publishing De l ' admission des femmes au droit de cité (" For the Admission to the Rights of Citizenship For Women ") in 1790.

* Vancea, S. The Cahiers de Doleances of 1789, Clio History Journal, 2008.

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Francisco de Goya's Witches ' Sabbath ( 1789 ) | Witches Sabbat ( 1789 ), which depicts the Devil flanked by Satanic witches.

* 1789 – Jacques de Flesselles, French public servant ( b. 1721 )

* 1789 – Bernard-René de Launay, French Governor of the Bastille ( b. 1740 )

* 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.

" He argued that the anti-feudal sentiment of French peasants expressed in the 1789 cahier de doléances ( list of grievances ) was linked to the " seigneurial reaction " of the late 18th century in which lords significantly increased feudal dues.