1788

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1788 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1788 MDCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2541
Armenian calendar	1237 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	6538
Bengali calendar	1195
Berber calendar	2738
British Regnal year	28 Geo. 3 – 29 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2332
Burmese calendar	1150
Byzantine calendar	7296–7297
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4484 or 4424 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4485 or 4425
Coptic calendar	1504–1505
Discordian calendar	2954
Ethiopian calendar	1780–1781
Hebrew calendar	5548–5549
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1844–1845
- Shaka Samvat	1709–1710
- Kali Yuga	4888–4889
Holocene calendar	11788
Igbo calendar	788–789
Iranian calendar	1166–1167
Islamic calendar	1202–1203
Japanese calendar	Tenmei 8 (天明８年)
Javanese calendar	1714–1715
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4121
Minguo calendar	124 before ROC 民前124年
Nanakshahi calendar	320
Thai solar calendar	2330–2331

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1788 (MDCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter FE) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday (dominical letter BA) of the Julian calendar, the 1788th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 788th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1788, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1918.

Events

January–June

January 1 – The first edition of The Times, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published in London.
January 2 – Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the fourth U.S. state under the new government.
January 9 – Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the fifth U.S. state.
January 18 – The leading ship (armed tender HMS Supply) in Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay to colonise Australia.
January 22 – the Continental Congress, effectively a caretaker government, elects Cyrus Griffin as its last president.
January 24 – The La Perouse expedition in the Astrolabe and Boussole arrives off Botany Bay just as Captain Arthur Phillip is attempting to move his colony from there to Sydney Cove in Port Jackson.
January 26 – Australia Day: Eleven ships of the First Fleet from Botany Bay, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, land at Sydney Cove (which will become Sydney), Australia, where he determines to establish the British 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 a steamboat.
February 6 – Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the sixth U.S. state.
February 7 – Sydney was named and founded by the British Colony of New South Wales.
February 9 – Austria enters the Russo-Turkish War (1787–92) 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. They arrive at Norfolk Island on March 6.
March 10 – The La Perouse expedition leaves Sydney Cove for New Caledonia, never to be seen again.
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 kills 25% of the population and destroys 856 buildings, including St. Louis Cathedral and The Cabildo, leaving most of the town in ruins.
April 7 – American pioneers establish the town of Marietta (in modern-day Ohio), the first permanent American settlement outside the original Thirteen 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 on the 15th.
April 28 – Maryland ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the seventh U.S. state.
May 10 – The Royal Dramatic Theatre (Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern), Sweden's national drama company, is founded.
May 15 – The Australian frontier wars begin.
May 23 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the eighth U.S. state.
June 7 – France: Day of the Tiles, which some consider the beginning of the French Revolution.
June 9 – The African Association, an exploration group dedicated to plotting the Niger River and finding Timbuktu, is founded in England.
June 17 – English captains Thomas Gilbert and John Marshall, returning from Botany Bay, become the first Europeans to encounter the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific Ocean.^[1] They also chart islands in "Lord Mulgrove's range", later known as the Marshall Islands.
June 21 – New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the ninth U.S. state, enabling the Constitution to go into effect. (The latter happens on March 4, 1789, when the first Congress elected under the new Constitution assembles.)
June 25 – The Virginia Ratifying Convention ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the tenth U.S. state under the new government.
June 26 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his antepenultimate symphony, now called the Symphony No. 39 in E-flat.

July–December

July 13 – A hailstorm sweeps across France and the Dutch Republic with hailstones 'as big as quart bottles' that take 'three days to melt'; immense damage is done.^[2]
July 24 – Governor General Lord Dorchester, by proclamation issued from the Chateau St. Louis in Quebec City, divides the British Province of Quebec into five Districts, namely: Gaspé, Nassau, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Hesse.
July 26 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the eleventh U.S. state.
July 28 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his penultimate symphony, now called the Symphony No. 40 in G Minor.
August 8 – King Louis XVI of France 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 in C Major, and nicknamed (after his death) The Jupiter.
August 27 – The trial of Deacon William Brodie for burglary begins in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is sentenced to death by hanging.
September 24 – 'Theater War' begins when the army of Denmark–Norway invades Sweden.
October 1 – William Brodie is hanged at the Tolbooth in Edinburgh.
Late October – King George III of the United Kingdom becomes deranged; the Regency Crisis of 1788 starts.
December 6 – Russo-Turkish War (1787–92): The Ottoman fortress of Özi falls to the Russians after a prolonged siege and a murderous storm with a temperature of -23 degrees C.
December 14 – King Charles III of Spain dies and is succeeded by his son Charles IV.
December – Robert Burns writes his version of the Scots poem Auld Lang Syne.^[3]