In history, year 1789 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1789.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 21 january | The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel, was published. |
| 23 january | Bishop John Carroll purchased a plot of land that would be the home of the future George town University, the oldest Catholic Universityin the United States. |
| 04 march | As per the U.S. Constitution, the bicameral U.S. Congressofficially replaced the unicameral Congress of the Confederation as thelegislative body of the federal government. |
| 01 april | Frederick Muhlenberg became the first person to qualify under the United States Constitution strict mandate of what defines a head of the household for U.S. government purposes. |
| 28 april | About 1,300 miles west of Tahiti, Fletcher Christian, master's mate on board the Royal Navy ship HMAV Bounty, led a mutiny against the ship's commander William Bligh. |
| 30 april | George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City. |
| 14 june | Whiskey distilled from maize was first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named as Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Bourbon whiskey is a type of American whiskey: a barrel-aged distilled spirit made primarily from corn. |
| 20 june | French Revolution-Meeting on a tennis court near the Palace of Versailles, members of France's Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, pledging not to separate until a new constitution was established. |
| 12 july | French Revolution-Journalist Camille Desmoulins gave animpassioned speech protesting the dismissal of finance minister JacquesNecker the day before, inspiring listeners to storm the Bastille twodays later. |
| 27 july | The U.S. State Department, then known as the Department ofForeign Affairs, became the first federal agency created under the U.S.Constitution. |
| 26 august | French Revolution-The Declaration of the Rights of Man and ofthe Citizen, defining a set of individual and collective rights of thepeople, was approved by the National Constituent Assembly. |
| 28 august | With the first use of his new 1.2 m (3.9 ft) telescope, thenthe largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon ofSaturn, which was later named Enceladus. |
| 24 september | The First United States Congress passed the Judiciary Act of1789, establishing the U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number ofSupreme Court Justices. |
| 05 october | French Revolution-Upset about the high price and scarcity ofbread, thousands of Parisian women and their various allies marched onthe royal palace at Versailles. |
| 19 october | John Jay was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the UnitedStates. |
| 24 october | The Brabant Revolution, sometimes considered as the firstexpression of Belgian nationalism, began with the invasion of theAustrian Netherlands by an émigré army from the Dutch Republic. |
| 06 november | Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as the firstCatholic bishop in the United States. |
| 11 december | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the oldest public universities in the United States and the only one to award degrees in the 18th century, received its charter. |
| 04 July | The East India Company entered into a treaty with the Peshwa and the Nizam against Tipu Sultan. |
| 02 September | The United States established its own revenue department. |
| 07 January | The American public voted for George Washington to be elected the country's first president. |
| 04 February | George Washington was elected President of the United States and John Adams as Vice-President. |
| 30 April | George Washington was elected the first President of the United States. |
| 07 January | The United States presidential election, 1788–89, and the House of Representatives elections were held. |
| 04 February | George Washington was unanimously elected the first President of the United States. |
| 04 March | The first US Congress completed and declared the constitution. |
| 30 April | George Washington was inaugurated at Federal Hall in New York, beginning his term as the first President of the United States. |
| 05 May | In France, the Estates-General met for the first time in 175 years. |
| 03 June | Alex McKenzie discovered the Mackenzie River Canada). |
| 11 July | Louis XVI of France rejected the popular Chief Minister Jack Necker. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 02 April | Lucio Norberto Mansilla / Politician / Argentina |
| 03 July | Johann Friedrich Overbeck / Painter / Germany |
| 05 November | William Bland / Politician / Australia |
| 08 October | William John Swainson / Ornithologist / United Kingdom |
| 08 October | John Ruggles / Politician / United States of America |
| 09 September | Menachem Mendel Schneersohn / Rabbi / Poland |
| 09 February | Franz Xaver Gabelsberger / Engineer / Germany |
| 14 December | Maria Szymanowska / Pianist / Poland |
| 15 June | Josiah Henson / Author / United States of America |
| 15 October | William Christopher Zeise / Chemist / Denmark |
| 15 September | James Fenimore Cooper / Writer / United States of America |
| 16 October | William Burton / Politician / United States of America |
| 17 January | August Neander / Historian / Germany |
| 19 July | John Martin / Painter / United Kingdom |
| 19 October | Theophilos Kairis / Philosopher / Greece |
| 20 July | Mahmud II / Sultan / Turkey |
| 21 August | Augustin-Louis Cauchy / Academic / France |
| 23 May | Franz Schlik / Earl / Austria |
| 27 February | Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza / Politician / Chile |
| 30 June | Horace Vernet / Painter / France |