1788
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
Years: 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 - 1788 - 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793
Events
- 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 26 - Australia Day: First Fleet from Botany Bay[?] led by Arthur Phillip land in what would become Sydney, Australia. They would establish the first permanent European settlement on the continent.
- January 28 - The first penal colony is founded at Botany Bay[?], Australia.
- January 31 - Henry Benedict Stuart becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Charles 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.
- March 21 - A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans leaving most of the town in ruins.
- 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 21 - New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 9th U.S. state.
- June 25 - Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 10th U.S. state.
- July 26 - New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th U.S. state.
- Great Britain establishes the prison colony of New South Wales in Australia, the first European settlement there.
Births
- January 22 - George Gordon, Lord Byron,English poet (+ 1824)
- February 5 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (+ 1850)
- February 22 - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (+ 1860)
- March 10 - Joseph von Eichendorff[?], lyricist and narrator (+ 1857)
Deaths
- January 31 - Bonnie Prince Charlie, Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Charles III.
- December 22 - Percivall Pott, London surgeon
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