1789

1789 (MDCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1789th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 789th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1789, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  – 1780s –  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1786 1787 1788 – 1789 – 1790 1791 1792

1789 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1789 MDCCLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2542
Armenian calendar	1238 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԸ
Assyrian calendar	6539
Balinese saka calendar	1710–1711
Bengali calendar	1196
Berber calendar	2739
British Regnal year	29 Geo. 3 – 30 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2333
Burmese calendar	1151
Byzantine calendar	7297–7298
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4485 or 4425     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4486 or 4426
Coptic calendar	1505–1506
Discordian calendar	2955
Ethiopian calendar	1781–1782
Hebrew calendar	5549–5550
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1845–1846
- Shaka Samvat	1710–1711
- Kali Yuga	4889–4890
Holocene calendar	11789
Igbo calendar	789–790
Iranian calendar	1167–1168
Islamic calendar	1203–1204
Japanese calendar	Tenmei 9 / Kansei 1 (寛政元年)
Javanese calendar	1715–1716
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4122
Minguo calendar	123 before ROC 民前123年
Nanakshahi calendar	321
Thai solar calendar	2331–2332
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1915 or 1534 or 762     — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1916 or 1535 or 763

Events

• April 28 – The Mutiny on the Bounty happens. It was led by Fletcher Christian.
• April 30 – George Washington becomes the first President of the United States.
• May 5 – The French Revolution starts.

Births

• September 15 – James Fenimore Cooper