1788

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[edit] Events of 1788

January 1 - The first edition of The Times, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
January 2 - Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 4th U.S. state under the new government.
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.

January 1: First edition in London of The Times.

January 22 - Cyrus Griffin becomes the 10th and last President of the United States in Congress Assembled.
January 26 - Captain Arthur Phillip decides to make the permanent settlement at Sydney Cove.
January 26 - Australia Day: Eleven ships of the First Fleet from Botany Bay, led by Arthur Phillip, land in what will 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.
February 17 - The uninhabited Lord Howe Island is discovered by the brig HMS Supply, commanded by Lieutenant Ball, who is 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 the capture of William Brodie, a town councilor doubling as a burglar.

March 21: Fire in New Orleans requires rebuilding Jackson Square area.

March 21 - Great New Orleans Fire (1788) 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 - 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 on the 15th.
April 28 - Maryland ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 7th U.S. state.
May 10 - The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Sweden's national stage, is founded.
May 23 - South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 8th U.S. state.
June 7 - France: Day of the Tiles, which some consider the beginning of the French Revolution.
June 9 - England: The African Association, a exploration group dedicated to plotting the Niger River and finding Timbuktu, is founded.
June 21 - New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 9th U.S. state; the Constitution goes into effect.
June 25 - The Virginia Ratifying Convention‎ ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 10th U.S. state under the new government.
June 26 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his antepenultimate symphony, now called the Symphony No. 39 (Mozart) in E-flat. He completes the 40th and 41st in July and August.

July - Louis XVI of France calls for a spring session of the Estates 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 the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th U.S. state.
July 28- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his penultimate symphony, now called the Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) in G Minor.
August 8 - French King Louis XVI agrees to convene the Estates-General meeting in May 1789, the first time since 1614.
August 10 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his final symphony, now called the Symphony No. 41 (Mozart) in C Major, and nicknamed (after Mozart's death) The Jupiter.
August 27 - The 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 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 - King Charles III of Spain dies and is succeeded by his son Charles IV of Spain.