Today in History for Year 1788

Months in Year 1788: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 38 of 38

Jan 1st - London's Daily Universal Registrar becomes the Times
Jan 1st - Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves
Jan 2nd - Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
Jan 9th - Connecticut becomes 5th state
Jan 18th - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to setup a penal colony
Jan 20th - Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga
Jan 26th - Captain Arthur Phillip and british colonists hoist the English flag on Botany Bay, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day
Jan 28th - Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Botany Bay, Sydney
Jan 28th - Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France
Feb 1st - 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
Feb 6th - Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
Feb 9th - Austria declares war on Russia
Mar 6th - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
Mar 21st - Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana
Mar 21st - Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
Apr 7th - 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
Apr 15th - England, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
Apr 28th - Maryland becomes 7th state to ratify constitution
May 9th - English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade
May 23rd - SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
Jun 7th - Masses stone French government army at Grenoble
Jun 11th - 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC
Jun 11th - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
Jun 21st - US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify
Jun 21st - Vizille France population demands local parliament
Jun 25th - Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution
Jul 17th - Russian fleet destroys Swedish
Jul 26th - NY becomes 11th state to ratify constitution
Aug 8th - King Louis XVI calls French States & Generals together
Aug 13th - Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
Aug 17th - Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded
Aug 22nd - Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
Aug 27th - Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance
Sep 13th - NY City becomes 1st capital of US
Dec 17th - Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov
Dec 19th - Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam
Dec 21st - Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam
Dec 23rd - Maryland votes to cede a 10 sqaure mile area for Dist of Columbia

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 45 of 45

Jan 5th - Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer
Jan 8th - Erik Drake, composer
Jan 8th - Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)
Jan 8th - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
Jan 11th - William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
Jan 13th - Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer
Jan 22nd - Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, England, romantic poet (Don Juan)
Feb 5th - Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon)
Feb 5th - Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM (1834-5; 41-46)/founder (British Conservative Party)/founder (Bobbies)
Feb 10th - Johann Peter Pixis, composer
Feb 16th - Juan van Halen, Dutch/Spanish officer/adventurer
Feb 22nd - Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
Feb 25th - Mateo Ferrer, composer
Mar 1st - Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
Mar 7th - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
Mar 10th - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (Das Marmorbild)
Mar 12th - Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor
Apr 2nd - Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862)
Apr 5th - Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund)
British Prime Minister Robert Peel (Feb 5th) Apr 12th - Johann Erik Nordblom, composer
Apr 14th - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
Apr 17th - Joseph Gilbert Totten, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1864
May 10th - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer/physicist
May 10th - Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, German queen (d. 1819)
May 16th - Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
May 18th - Hugh Clapperton, Annan Scotland, African explorer
Jun 21st - Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)
Jul 1st - Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry
Aug 2nd - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
Aug 15th - Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director
Aug 20th - Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer
Aug 22nd - Thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter
Aug 25th - Cornelis J van Assen, Dutch jurist (Language of the Constitution)
Aug 26th - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist
Sep 6th - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari)
Sep 10th - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
Sep 12th - Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder (Disciples of Christ)
Sep 21st - Margaret Smith Taylor, 1st lady (1849-50)
Sep 22nd - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
Oct 11th - Simon Sechter, composer
Oct 20th - Philip Knapton, composer
Oct 23rd - Sarah Hale, founder (Seaman's Aid Society of Boston)
Oct 24th - Sarah Josepha Hale, author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
Nov 11th - Michal Wielhorski, composer
Dec 18th - Camille Pleyel, Austria, piano builder/composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 43 of 43

Jan 5th - Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 85
Jan 14th - François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
Jan 15th - Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77
Jan 17th - Alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37
Jan 31st - Francesco Zannetti, composer, dies at 50
Jan 31st - [Bonnie Prince Charlie] Charles E Stuart, English pretender to the throne, dies at 67
Feb 18th - John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713)
Feb 20th - Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at 68
Feb 21st - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
Feb 22nd - Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63
Feb 28th - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725)
Mar 1st - Orazio Mei, composer, dies at 56
Mar 29th - Charles Wesley, hymn writer, dies
Apr 12th - Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer, dies at 56
Apr 12th - Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer, dies at 67
Apr 15th - Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77
Apr 16th - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
Apr 22nd - Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46
May 8th - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723)
May 29th - Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver, dies at 61
Jun 12th - Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65
Jun 18th - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
Jun 28th - Johann Christoph Vogel, composer, dies at 32
Jul 14th - Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer, dies at 60
Aug 2nd - Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61
Aug 8th - Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92
Aug 14th - Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies
Sep 14th - John Penn, US attorney, signed (Decl of Independence), dies at 47
Sep 14th - Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer, dies at 56
Sep 26th - Francois Bainville, composer, dies at 63
Oct 13th - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
Oct 15th - Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
Oct 18th - Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer, dies at 56
Nov 1st - Johann Samuel Schroeter, composer, dies
Nov 15th - Peregrinus Pogl, composer, dies at 77
Nov 28th - Charles C of Nassau-Weilburg, governor of Maastricht, dies at about 53
Dec 6th - Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)
Dec 12th - Joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88
Dec 14th - Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74
Dec 14th - Carlos III, King of Naples/Spain (1759-88), dies at 72
Dec 22nd - Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
Dec 25th - John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40
Dec 30th - Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at 86