Page 3: Historical Events In 1788

Jun 07   Masses stone French govt army at Grenoble   

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

Jun 11   inaugural British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC.   

Jun 12   Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65.   

Jun 21   US Constitution comes into force as NH is 9th to ratify   

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

Jun 25   Virginia is recorded as becoming 10th state to ratify US constitution.   

Jun 28   Johann Christoph Vogel, composer, dies at 32   

Jul 01   Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry.   

Jul 14   Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer, dies at 60   

Jul 17   Russian fleet destroys Swedish.   

Jul 26   New York is recorded as becoming 11th state to ratify constitution   

Jul 26   New York ratifies the U.S. Constitution   

Jul 26   NY is recorded as becoming 11th state to ratify constitution   

Aug 02   Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61   

Aug 08   King Louis XVI calls French States and Generals together.   

Aug 08   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.   

Aug 14   Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies.   

Aug 15   Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director.   

Aug 17   Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded   

Aug 20   Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer   

Aug 22   British create the settlement of Sierra Leone, Africa, for freed slaves.   

Aug 22   Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves   

Aug 22   Thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter   

Aug 25   Cornelis J van Assen, Dutch jurist (Language of the Constitution).   

Aug 26   Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist.   

Aug 27   Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance   

Sep 06   F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari).   

Sep 12   Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder (Disciples of Christ).   

Sep 13   New York City is recorded as becoming the US national capital, as authorized by the Congress of the Confederation.   

Sep 13   New York is recorded as becoming the capital of the United States (later replaced by Washington).   

Sep 13   NY City is recorded as becoming 1st capital of US.   

Sep 14   John Penn, US attorney, signed (Decl of Independence), dies at 47.   

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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 on this day in history.   

Jan 08   Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 13   In the year 1788 birth of carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer   

Jan 22   Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, England, romantic poet (Don Juan) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 05   Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

Jan 14   François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722) died in the year 1788.   

Jan 15   Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77 in the year 1788.   

Jan 17   On this day in history alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37   

Jan 31   On this day in history charles E Stuart, English pretender to the throne, dies at 67   

Feb 18   John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713) died in the year 1788.   

Feb 20   In the year 1788 gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at 68   

Feb 21   On this day in history death of johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)