The first inauguration of George Washington as the first president of the United States was held on Thursday, April 30, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City. The inauguration was held nearly two months after the beginning of the …

On April 23, 1789, president-elect George Washington was escorted by a joint congressional committee onto a specially-prepared barge for the trip to New York City. The vessel, with a keel of 47 feet, sported a mast and sail festooned with red curtains, an awning and 13 oars on both sides.

George Washington's inauguration ceremony in New York City was a grand historical event, attended by hundreds. A military salute is fired by artillery at nearby Fort George. Throughout New York City, church bells ring for half an hour.

Since 1789 there have been 60 inaugural ceremonies to mark the commencement of a new four-year term of a president of the United States, and an additional nine marking the start of a partial presidential term following the intra-term death or resignation of an incumbent president.

President-Elect George Washington's Journey to the Inauguration - no celebration of a president-elect's acceptance of this post can match the grandeur that surrounded George Washington's trip to New York in April 1789 and the subsequent inaugural …

Inauguration Day began with the sounds of ceremonial artillery and church bells ringing across New York City, our nation's first capital. At noon Washington made his way through large crowds to Federal Hall where both houses of Congress were assembled.

Jul 1, 2019 · On the wall beside the pew hung a painting of one of the earliest known representations of the Great Seal of the United States, commissioned by Trinity's Vestry in 1789 to commemorate Washington’s inauguration.

Jan 20, 2025 · George Washington held the first presidential inauguration in U.S. history at Federal Hall in New York City on April 30, 1789.

The First Inauguration. It was in New York City, out nation's first capital, that George Washington became the first President of the United States.

Jan 20, 2025 · NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams will be among the guests at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration Monday in Washington, D.C. The announcement came after Adams abruptly...