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Year 1788 (''' MDCCLXXXVIII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1788

January - June

January 1 - First edition of '' The Times '', previously ''The Daily Universal Register'', was published.

January 2 - Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 4th U.S. State .

January 9 - Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 5th U.S. State .

January 18 - Captain Arthur Phillip 's ship arrives at Botany Bay .

''': First edition in London of '' The Times ''.]]

January 22 - Cyrus Griffin becomes the tenth and last President Of The United States In Congress Assembled .

January 26 - Captain Arthur Phillip decides to make the permanent settlement at Sydney Cove .

from Botany Bay led by Arthur Phillip land in what would become Sydney , Australia . Great Britain establishes the prison colony of New South Wales , the first permanent European settlement on the continent.

January 31 - Henry Benedict Stuart becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Henry IX and the figurehead of Jacobitism .

February 1 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the Steamboat .

February 6 - Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 6th U.S. State .

February 9 - Austria enters the Russo-Turkish War Of 1787-1792 and attacks Moldavia .

17 February - the uninhabited Lord Howe Island was discovered by the brig HMS ''Supply'' , commanded by Lieutenant Ball , who was on his way from Botany Bay to Norfolk Island with convicts to start a penal settlement there.

March 14 - The '' Edinburgh Evening Courant '' carries a notice of £200 reward for capture of William Brodie , town councilor doubling as a burglar.

March 21 - A Fire in New Orleans kills 25% of the population and destroys 856 buildings, including St. Louis Cathedral and The Cabildo , leaving most of the town in ruins.

April 13 - Americas first recorded Riot , the '' Doctors' Mob '', begins. Residents of Manhattan were angry about grave robbers stealing bodies for doctors to dissect. The rioting was suppressed on the 15th.

April 28 - Maryland ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 7th U.S. State .

May 23 - South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 8th U.S. State .

June 7 - France : day of the Tiles.

June 21 - New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 9th U.S. State . The Constitution then went into effect.

June 25 - Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 10th U.S. State .

July - December

July 24 - Governor General Lord Dorchester by proclamation issued from Castle of St. Louis in the City of Quebec divided the Canadas into five Districts, namely: Gaspe, Lunenburg, Meckleburg, Nassau and Hesse.

July 26 - New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th U.S. State .

August 8 - The French king agreed to convene the Estates-General meeting in May of 1789. It was the first time since 1614.

August 27 - Trial of William Brodie begins in Edinburgh , Scotland : he is sentenced to death by hanging.

September 17 - "Battle" Of Karansebes - Forces of Joseph II of Austria marching against Turks who rout for nothing in Karansebes.

October 1 - William Brodie was Hanged .

falls to the Russians after a prolonged siege and a murderous storm at the temperature of -23 C.

December 14 - King Charles III Of Spain dies and is succeeded by his son Charles IV Of Spain .

Undated

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart writes his 40th Symphony.

BIRTHS

January 22 - George Byron, 6th Baron Byron , English poet (d. 1824 )

February 5 - Robert Peel , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1850 )

February 10 - Johann Peter Pixis , German pianist and composer (d. 1874 )

February 22 - Arthur Schopenhauer , German philosopher (d. 1860 )

March 10 - Joseph Von Eichendorff , German poet (d. 1857 )

April 14 - David G. Burnet , President Of The Republic Of Texas (d, 1870 )

May 16 - Friedrich Rückert , German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages (d. 1866 )

May 22 - William Grant Broughton , First Anglican bishop in Australia (d. 1853 )

August 16 - Luigi Ciacchi , Italian cardinal (d. 1865 )

September 12 - Alexander Campbell , Irish-born founder of the Disciples of Christ (d. 1866 )

September 22 - Theodore Edward Hook , English author (d. 1841 )

October 9 . (towards) - József Kossics , catholics priest, writer, etnologhist (d. 1867 )

October 11 - Simon Sechter , Austrian music teacher

October 24 - Sarah Josepha Hale , American author (d. 1879 )

Juan Facundo Quiroga , Argentine federationalist

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DEATHS

January 14 - François Joseph Paul, Marquis De Grasetilly, Comte De Grasse , French admiral (b. 1722 )

January 31 - Charles Edward Stuart , claimant to the British throne (b. 1720 )

February 18 - John Whitehurst , English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713 )

February 21 - Johann Georg Palitzsch , German astronomer (b. 1723 )

February 28 - Thomas Cushing , American Continental Congressman (b. 1725 )

) of the religious movement now known as Methodism (b. 1707 )

April 12 - Carlo Antonio Campioni , French-born composer (b. 1719 )

April 15 - Giuseppe Bonno , Austrian composer (b. 1711 )

April 16 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon , French naturalist (b. 1707 )

May 8 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli , Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723 )

June 18 - Adam Gib , Scottish religious leader (b. 1714 )

August 2 - Thomas Gainsborough , British painter (b. 1727 )

October 13 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent , Irish politician and poet (b. 1702 )

October 15 - Samuel Greig , Scottish-Russian Admiral (b. 1735 )

December 6 - Jonathan Shipley , English bishop and politician (b. 1714 )

December 14 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , German composer (b. 1714 )

December 14 - King Charles III Of Spain (b. 1716 )

December 22 - Percivall Pott , English surgeon (b. 1714 )

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