- 1788
Year 1788 (MDCCLXXXVIII) was a
leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian calendar (or aleap year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of 1788
January - June
*January 1 - The first edition of "The Times ", previously "The Daily Universal Register", is published.
*January 2 - Georgia ratifies theUnited States Constitution and becomes the 4thU.S. state under the new government.
*January 9 -Connecticut ratifies theUnited States Constitution and becomes the 5thU.S. state .
*January 18 - CaptainArthur Phillip 's ship arrives atBotany Bay .*
January 22 -Cyrus Griffin becomes the 10th and lastPresident of the United States in Congress Assembled .
*January 26 - CaptainArthur Phillip decides to make the permanent settlement atSydney Cove .
*January 26 -Australia Day : Eleven ships of theFirst Fleet fromBotany Bay , led byArthur Phillip , land in what will becomeSydney ,Australia .Great Britain establishes the 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 ofGreat Britain as King Henry IX and the figurehead ofJacobitism .
*February 1 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent thesteamboat .
*February 6 -Massachusetts ratifies theUnited States Constitution and becomes the 6thU.S. state .
*February 9 - Austria enters the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1792 and attacksMoldavia .
*17 February - The uninhabitedLord Howe Island is discovered by the brig HMS "Supply", commanded by Lieutenant Ball, who is on his way fromBotany Bay toNorfolk Island with convicts to start a penal settlement there.
*March 14 - The "Edinburgh Evening Courant" carries a notice of £200 reward for the capture ofWilliam Brodie , a town councilor doubling as a burglar.
*March 21 -Great New Orleans Fire (1788) kills 25% of the population and destroys 856 buildings, including St. Louis Cathedral andthe Cabildo , leaving most of the town in ruins.
*April 13 - America's first recordedriot , the "Doctors' Mob", begins. Residents of Manhattan are angry about grave robbers stealing bodies for doctors to dissect. The rioting is suppressed on the 15th.
*April 28 -Maryland ratifies theUnited States Constitution and becomes the 7thU.S. state .
*May 10 - The "Royal Dramatic Theatre ", Sweden's national stage, is founded.*
May 23 -South Carolina ratifies theUnited States Constitution and becomes the 8thU.S. state .*
June 7 -France :Day of the Tiles , which some consider the beginning of theFrench Revolution .
*June 9 -England : TheAfrican Association , a exploration group dedicated to plotting theNiger River and findingTimbuktu , is founded.
*June 21 -New Hampshire ratifies theUnited States Constitution and becomes the 9thU.S. state ; the Constitution goes into effect.
*June 25 - TheVirginia Ratifying Convention ratifies theUnited States Constitution and becomes the 10thU.S. state under the new government.
*June 26 -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , inVienna , completes his antepenultimate symphony, now called theSymphony No. 39 (Mozart) in E-flat. He completes the 40th and 41st in July and August.July - December
*July -Louis XVI of France calls for a spring session of theEstates General .
*July 24 - Governor General Lord Dorchester, by proclamation issued from Castle of St. Louis in the City of Quebec, divides the Canadas into five Districts, namely: Gaspe, Lunenburg, Meckleburg, Nassau and Hesse.
*July 26 -New York ratifies theUnited States Constitution and becomes the 11thU.S. state .
*July 28 -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , inVienna , completes his penultimate symphony, now called theSymphony No. 40 (Mozart) in G Minor.
*August 8 - French KingLouis XVI agrees to convene theEstates-General meeting in May 1789, the first time since 1614.
*August 10 -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , inVienna , completes his final symphony, now called theSymphony No. 41 (Mozart) in C Major, and nicknamed (after Mozart's death) "The Jupiter."
*August 27 - The trial ofWilliam Brodie begins inEdinburgh ,Scotland ; he is sentenced to death by hanging.*
September 17 - "Battle" of Karansebes: Forces of Joseph II of Austria marching against the Turks, believing themselves attacked, starting firing at each other, causing up to 10,000 casualties.
*October 1 -William Brodie is hanged.
*December 6 -Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 : The Ottoman fortress of Özi falls to the Russians after a prolonged siege and a murderous storm at the temperature of -23 C.
*December 14 - KingCharles III of Spain dies and is succeeded by his sonCharles IV of Spain .Undated
* Annual British iron production reaches 68,000 tons.
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 2 -Francisco Balagtas , Filipino poet (d.1862 )
*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 )
*June 21 -Princess Augusta of Bavaria , Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d.1851 )
*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 22 -Theodore Edward Hook , English author (d.1841 )
*October 9 -József Kossics , Catholic priest, writer, ethnologist (d.1867 )
*October 11 -Simon Sechter , Austrian music teacher
*October 24 -Sarah Josepha Hale , American author (d.1879 )
*Juan Facundo Quiroga , Argentine federationalist
*Jakob Walter ,stonemason and common draftee (d.1864 )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 )
*March 29 -Charles Wesley , co-founder (with brother,John Wesley ) of the religious movement now known asMethodism (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 - KingCharles III of Spain (b.1716 )
*December 22 -Percivall Pott , English surgeon (b.1714 )Miscellaneous
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2008 - There were 1788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge I from 70 countries.
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