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| 1788 |
| | | Spain's affairs are controlled by Manuel de Godoy, lover of the queen, Maria Luisa | |
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| 1789 |
| | | England's champion pugilist, the Jewish prize-fighter Daniel Mendoza, publishes The Art of Boxing | |
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| 1789 |
| | | George Washington, unanimously elected first president of the United States, is inaugurated on Wall Street in New York | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Alexander Hamilton becomes secretary of the treasury in the administration of George Washington, whose federalist views he shares | |
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| 1789 |
| | | A pamphlet published in France by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès asks a challenging question, What is the Third Estate? | |
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| 1789 |
| | | William Blake publishes Songs of Innocence, a volume of his poems with every page etched and illustrated by himself | |
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| 1789 |
| | | In his Principles Jeremy Bentham defines 'utility' as that which enhances pleasure and reduces pain | |
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| 1789 |
| | | A left-wing political club begins to meet in a Jacobin convent in Paris, thus becoming known as the Jacobins | |
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| 1789 |
| | | The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a slave captured as a child in Africa, becomes a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Alexander Mackenzie explores by canoe from central Canada through the Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean | |
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