* 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 )

* 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.

Old College, University of Edinburgh, rebuilt in 1789 according to plans drawn up by Robert Adam.

* 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland ( now a part of Washington, D. C .)

Vincent was a common name in the Van Gogh family: his grandfather, Vincent ( 1789 – 1874 ), had received his degree of theology at the University of Leiden in 1811.

Marked for a political career, he studied finance for six months at the University of Frankfurt ( Oder ); a year later, on April 25, 1789, he matriculated at Göttingen, then known for the lectures of C. G. Heyne and J. F. Blumenbach.

Founded in 1789, Georgetown University features a mix of Romanesque and Gothic Revival architecture.

A selection of the Papers presented at the Colloquium appraising Griesbach's life, work and influence, aimed " to indicate why an understanding of this scholar's contribution to New Testament criticism is important both for the history of New Testament scholarship and for contemporary research ", together with the text in Latin and in English translation of The Dissertation of J. J. Griesbach, Doctor of Theology and Principal Professor in the University of Jena, in which he demonstrates that the entire Gospel of Mark has been extracted from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, written in the name of the University of Jena ( 1789 – 1790 ), now revised and furnished with many additions, are to be found in Bernard Orchard and Thomas R. W. Longstaff ( ed.

Father John Carroll founded Georgetown University as a Jesuit private university in 1789, though its roots extend back to 1634.

After attending the Royal High School for six years, he studied at the University of Glasgow from 1787 to May 1789, and at Queen's College, Oxford, from September 1791 to June 1792.

The second son, Thomas Townshend ( 1701 – 1780 ), was member of parliament for the University of Cambridge from 1727 to 1774 ; his only son, Thomas Townshend ( 1733 – 1800 ), who was created Baron Sydney in 1783 and Viscount Sydney in 1789, was a secretary of state and Leader of the House of Commons from July 1782 to April 1783, and from December 1783 to June 1789 again a secretary of state, Sydney in New South Wales being named after him ; his grandson, John Robert Townshend ( 1805 – 1890 ), the 3rd viscount, was created Earl Sydney in 1874, the titles becoming extinct at his death.

On 12 October 1823, members of three Episcopal parishes in Lower Manhattan, including notably William Backhouse Astor ( 1792 – 1875 ), a wealthy Manhattan landowner, Charles King ( 1789 – 1867 ), later president of Columbia University, and jurist William Beach-Lawrence, combined forces to organize a new episcopal church in New York.

* Michael P. Fitzsimmons, The Night the Old Regime Ended: August 4, 1789 and the French Revolution, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, he studied law under Joseph B. McKean in Philadelphia and was admitted to the bar in 1793.

On 10 June 1789 he matriculated from University College, being then only in his sixteenth year ; he was elected a scholar on 25 March following, and took his B. A.

In 1789 James was elected a member of the Board of Fellows of Brown University, and regularly attended meetings until his death.

* View of University Park Looking Towards New College, Oxford by William Turner ( 1789 – 1862 ) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

He studied composition secretly, against his uncle's wishes, and entered the University of Bonn in 1789.

In 1789 he entered the University of Bonn.

From the legislature, he was appointed to the board of trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; he served as a trustee from 1789 to 1795.

He then began studies in both civil and canon law at La Sapienza University, from which he received doctorates in both fields in 1789.

Returning to America, he practiced as a physician in Philadelphia and was 1768 – 1789 professor of Materia medica and 1789 – 1797 of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Medical School of the College of Philadelphia ( later the University of Pennsylvania ), founded in 1765 as the first faculty of Medicine in the thirteen colonies.

After studying at the University of Pavia, he became a doctor of law in 1789.