Historical Events In 1788

Jun 07   Masses stone French govt army at Grenoble in the year 1788.  

Jun 11   1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC on this day in history.  

Jun 11   First British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC in the year 1788.  

Jun 12   Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

Jun 21   On this day in history uS Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify  

Jun 25   The Virginia colony including Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, entered the United States of America as the tenth state in the year 1788.  

Jun 25   Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution on this day in history.  

Jun 28   Johann Christoph Vogel, composer, dies at 32 in the year 1788.  

Jul 01   Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry on this day in history.  

Jul 14   Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

Jul 17   In the year 1788 russian fleet destroys Swedish  

Jul 26   On this day in history new York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution  

Jul 26   New York ratifies the U.S. Constitution on this day in history.  

Jul 26   In the year 1788 nY becomes 11th state to ratify constitution  

Aug 02   Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61 in the year 1788.  

Aug 08   In the year 1788 king Louis XVI calls French States & Generals together  

Aug 08   In the year 1788 louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92  

Aug 13   Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90 on this day in history.  

Aug 14   In the year 1788 thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies  

Aug 15   On this day in history carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director  

Aug 17   In the year 1788 losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded  

Aug 20   On this day in history jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer  

Aug 22   In the year 1788 british create the settlement of Sierra Leone, Africa, for freed slaves  

Aug 22   In the year 1788 sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves  

Aug 22   On this day in history thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter  

Aug 25   In the year 1788 cornelis J van Assen, Dutch jurist (Language of the Constitution)  

Aug 26   Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist on this day in history.  

Aug 27   In the year 1788 jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance  

Sep 06   In the year 1788 f Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari)  

Sep 12   Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder (Disciples of Christ) in the year 1788.  

Sep 13   New York becomes the capital of the United States (later replaced by Washington) in the year 1788.  

Sep 13   New York City becomes the US national capital, as authorized by the Congress of the Confederation on this day in history.  

Sep 13   NY City becomes 1st capital of US on this day in history.  

Sep 14   John Penn, US attorney, signed (Decl of Independence), dies at 47 on this day in history.  

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Jan 05   On this day in history birth of kaspar Ett, German organist/composer  

Jan 08   On this day in history birth of erik Drake, composer  

Jan 08   Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831) was born in the year 1788.  

Jan 08   On this day in history birth of pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)  

Jan 11   On this day in history birth of william Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)  

Jan 13   Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 22   Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, England, romantic poet (Don Juan) was born in the year 1788.  

Feb 05   Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 05   In the year 1788 johann Schneider, composer, dies at 85  

Jan 14   François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722) died on this day in history.  

Jan 15   In the year 1788 gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77  

Jan 17   In the year 1788 alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37  

Jan 31   In the year 1788 charles E Stuart, English pretender to the throne, dies at 67  

Feb 18   In the year 1788 death of john Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713)  

Feb 20   Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at 68 in the year 1788.  

Feb 21   In the year 1788 death of johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)