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March 21 : TheGreat New Orleans Fire leaves most of the town in ruins1788 (MDCCLXXXVIII ) was aleap year starting on Tuesday of theGregorian calendar and aleap year starting on Saturday of theJulian calendar , the 1788th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 88th year of the18th century , and the 9th year of the1780s decade. As of the start of 1788, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
January 1 – The first edition ofThe Times The Daily Universal Register , is published inLondon .[ 1] January 2 –Georgia ratifies theUnited States Constitution , and becomes the fourthU.S. state under the new government.[ 2] January 9 –Connecticut ratifies theUnited States Constitution , and becomes the fifthU.S. state .January 18 – The leading ship (armed tenderHMSSupply ) in CaptainArthur Phillip 'sFirst Fleet arrives atBotany Bay , to colonise Australia.January 22 – TheCongress of the Confederation , effectively acaretaker government until the United States Constitution can be ratified by at least nine of the 13 states, electsCyrus Griffin as its lastpresident .[ 3] January 24 – TheLa Perouse expedition in theAstrolabe Boussole Botany Bay , just as CaptainArthur Phillip is attempting to move his colony from there toSydney Cove inPort Jackson .January 26 – Eleven ships of theFirst Fleet fromBotany Bay , led by CaptainArthur Phillip , land atSydney Cove (which will become Sydney), Australia, where he determines to establish the British prison colony ofNew 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 ofJacobitism .February 1 –Isaac Briggs andWilliam Longstreet patent asteamboat .February 6 –Massachusetts ratifies theUnited States Constitution , and becomes the sixthU.S. state .February 7 – Sydney is named and founded, in the British colony of New South Wales.February 9 –Austria enters theRusso-Turkish War (1787–92) , and attacksMoldavia .February 17 – The uninhabitedLord Howe Island is discovered by the brigHMSSupply , commanded byLieutenant Ball , who is on his way fromBotany Bay toNorfolk Island with convicts to start a penal settlement there. They arrive at Norfolk Island onMarch 6 .March 10 – TheLa Perouse expedition leavesSydney Cove forNew Caledonia , never to be seen again.March 14 – TheEdinburgh Evening Courant William Brodie , a town councilor doubling as a burglar.March 21 – TheGreat New Orleans Fire destroys 856 buildings, includingSt. Louis Cathedral andThe Cabildo , leaving most of the town in ruins.April 7 –American pioneers establish the town ofMarietta (in modern-dayOhio ), the first permanent American settlement outside the originalThirteen Colonies .April 13 – America's first recorded riot, the 'Doctors' Mob ', begins. Residents of Manhattan are angry about grave robbers stealing bodies for doctors to dissect. The rioting is suppressed onApril 15 .April 28 –Maryland ratifies theUnited States Constitution , and becomes the seventhU.S. state .May 10 – TheRoyal Dramatic Theatre (Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern ),Sweden 's national drama company, is founded.May 15 – TheAustralian frontier wars begins. With the placement of a cournerstone.May 23 –South Carolina ratifies theUnited States Constitution , and becomes the eighthU.S. state .June 7 – France:Day of the Tiles , which some consider the beginning of theFrench Revolution .June 9 – TheAfrican Association , an exploration group dedicated to plotting theNiger River and findingTimbuktu , is founded in England.June 17 – English captainsThomas Gilbert andJohn Marshall , returning fromBotany Bay , become the first Europeans to encounter theGilbert Islands in the Pacific Ocean.[ 4] Marshall Islands .June 21 –New Hampshire ratifies theUnited States Constitution , and becomes the ninthU.S. state , enabling the Constitution to go into effect. (The latter happens onMarch 4 ,1789 , when the first Congress elected under the new Constitution assembles.)June 25 – TheVirginia Ratifying Convention ratifies theUnited States Constitution , and becomes the tenthU.S. state under the new government.June 26 –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , inVienna , completes his antepenultimate symphony, now called theSymphony No. 39 in E-flatJune 27 – TheRusso-Swedish War (1788–1790) breaks out following a staged attack on Swedish troops inPuumala , present-day Finland.July 13 – Ahailstorm sweeps across France and theDutch Republic , with hailstones 'as big as quart bottles' that take 'three days to melt'; immense damage is done.[ 5] July 24 – Governor GeneralLord Dorchester , by proclamation issued from theChateau St. Louis inQuebec City , divides the BritishProvince of Quebec into five Districts, namely: Gaspé,Nassau ,Lunenburg ,Mecklenburg , andHesse .July 26 – New York ratifies theUnited States Constitution , and becomes the eleventhU.S. state .July 28 –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , inVienna , completes his penultimate symphony, now called theSymphony No. 40 in G MinorAugust 8 – KingLouis XVI agrees to convene theEstates-General meeting inMay 1789 , the first time since1614 .August 10 – EmperorShah Alam II wasblinded by a maddened Indo-Afghan commanderGhulam Qadir Rohilla who sought revenge against theMughal Empire .August 10 –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , inVienna , completes his final symphony, now called theSymphony No. 41 in C MajorThe Jupiter. August 12 – TheAnjala conspiracy is signed.[ 6] August 27 – The trial of DeaconWilliam Brodie forburglary begins inEdinburgh , Scotland; he is sentenced to death by hanging.September 13 – The United StatesCongress of the Confederation passes an act providing a timeline for the voting for the first President under the new U.S. Constitution.[ 7] September 21 –Austro-Turkish War -Battle of Karánsebes : The Austrian army engages in a friendly-fire incident, which results in mass casualties.September 24 – TheTheater War Denmark–Norway invades Sweden.Annual British iron production reaches 68,000 tons.
Arthur Schopenhauer Joseph Eichendorff Augustin-Jean Fresnel May 10 –Augustin-Jean Fresnel , French engineer, physicist and inventor (d.1827 )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 )June 8 –Charles A. Wickliffe , American politician, 14thGovernor of Kentucky (d.1869 )June 21 –Princess Augusta of Bavaria , Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d.1851 )July 30 –Kisamor , Swedish natural healer (d.1842 )August 2 –Leopold Gmelin , German chemist (d.1853 )August 6 –Felix Slade , English lawyer, philanthropist and art collector (d.1868 )August 7 –Francis R. Shunk , American politician (d.1848 )August 15 –Carel Sirardus Willem van Hogendorp , ActingGovernor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d.1856 )August 16 –Luigi Ciacchi , Italian cardinal (d.1865 )September 12 –Alexander Campbell , Irish-born founder of the Disciples of Christ (d.1866 )September 15 –Gerard C. Brandon , American politician (d.1850 )September 12 –Charlotte von Siebold , German gynecologist (d.1859 )September 21 September 22 September 28 –Jakob Walter , Germanstonemason , soldier (d.1864 )October 9 –József Kossics , Hungarian-Slovene Catholic priest, writer, ethnologist (d.1867 )October 11 –Simon Sechter , Austrian music teacher (d.1867 )October 24 –Sarah Josepha Hale , American author (d.1879 )October 31 –David R. Porter , American politician (d.1867 )November 8 –Mihály Bertalanits ,Hungarian Slovene (Prekmurje Slovene ) poet, teacher (d.1853 )Date unknown 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 17 –Maurice Quentin de La Tour , French portrait painter (b.1704 )February 18 –John Whitehurst , English clockmaker, scientist (b.1713 )February 21 –Johann Georg Palitzsch , German astronomer (b.1723 )February 28 –Thomas Cushing , American Continental Congressman (b.1725 )March 2 –Salomon Gessner , Swiss painter and newspaper publisher (b.1730 )March 29 –Charles Wesley , English co-founder (with his brother,John Wesley ) of the religious movement now known asMethodism (b.1707 )March 31 –Catharina Elisabet Grubb , Finnish industrialist (b.1721 )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, naturalist (b.1723 )May 11 –Dorothea Biehl , Danish writer (b.1731 )June 14 –Adam Gib , Scottish religious leader (b.1714 )June 21 –Johann Georg Hamann , German philosopher (b.1730 )July 3 –François Jacquier , French Franciscan mathematician, physicist (b.1711 )July 30 –Kajetan Sołtyk , Polish Catholic priest (b.1715 )Thomas Gainsborough August 2 –Thomas Gainsborough , British painter (b.1727 )August 8 –Armand de Vignerot du Plessis , French soldier, diplomat and statesman (b.1696 )August 25 –Tanuma Okitsugu , Japanese government official (b.1719 )August 28 –Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull , English noble (b.1721 )September 25 –Thomas Missing , English politician (b.1710 )October 13 –Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent , Irish politician, poet (b.1709 )October 15 –Samuel Greig , Scottish-Russian Admiral (b.1736 )November 14 –Thomas Estcourt Cresswell , British politician (b.1712 )November 20 –Samuel Martin (Secretary to the Treasury) , British politician (b.1714 )November 23 –Infante Gabriel of Spain (b.1752 )December 6 –Jonathan Shipley , English bishop, politician (b.1714 )Charles III of Spain ^ Steinberg, S. 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London: John Baker.ISBN 0-212-97022-4 ^ Anjalan liitto – Anjala-seura (in Finnish)^ William Waller Hening, ed.,The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (George Cochran Publishing, 1823) p653 ^ Frank Fletcher Stephens,The Transitional Period, 1788–1789, in the Government of the United States (University of Missouri Press, 1909) pp17-18 ^ Robert Huish,Memoirs of George the Fourth: Descriptive of the Most Interesting Scenes of His Private and Public Life, and the Important Events of His Memorable Reign (Thomas Kelly Publishers, 1830) p195 ^ David Andress,The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2015) ^ "Robert Burns – Auld Lang Syne" .BBC . Retrieved2012-01-26 .
