1788 Calendar

January 1, 1788 – First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.

January 18, 1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.

January 19, 1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.

April 7, 1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.

April 28, 1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

May 8, 1788 – The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.

June 11, 1788 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.

June 25, 1788 – Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.

July 25, 1788 – Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).

September 13, 1788 – The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country’s temporary capital.

January 8, 1788 – Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)

January 22, 1788 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Lord Byron), English poet (d. 1824)

February 22, 1788 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)

March 10, 1788 – Joseph von Eichendorff, German writer (d. 1857)

April 2, 1788 – Wilhelmine Reichard, first German women balloonist (d. 1848)

May 16, 1788 – Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)

July 1, 1788 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867)

September 22, 1788 – Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)

October 11, 1788 – Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)