1789
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
Years: 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 - 1789 - 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794
Events
- January 7 - First nationwide United States election
- January 21 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts
- January 23 - Georgetown College becomes the first Catholic college in the United States (Washington, DC).
- February 4 - George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the Electoral College.
- March 4 - In New York City, the first United States Congress meets and declares the new Constitution of the United States is in effect.
- April 1 - 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.
- April 30 - George Washington officialy begins his term as the 1st President of the United States.
- November 21 - North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 12th U.S. state.
Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
- Beginning of the French revolution
- Change of Ottoman sultan of the Ottoman Empire from Abd-ul-Hamid I (1773-1789) to Selim III (1789-1807)
- Thomas Jefferson brings the first macaroni machine to the United States
- The Judiciary Act established the Supreme Court of the United States and the federal judiciary.
- July 14 - Storming of the Bastille Prison, Paris - a key event in the French revolution.
- September 29 - United States War Department first establishes regular army with strength of several hundred men.
- Captain Cook arrives in Hawaii and is thought to be the god Lono. The last time the Kumulipo is recited is this year, in his honor.
Births
- March 16 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist and discoverer of Ohm's law (+ 1854)
- August 21 - Augustin Louis Cauchy (French mathematician )
Deaths
- April 7 - Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman sultan
- May 25 - Anders Dahl, botanist for whom the dahlia is named