1788

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1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

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January 1 - First edition of The Times, previously The Daily Universal Register, was published.
January 2 - Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 4th U.S. state.
January 9 - Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 5th U.S. state.
January 18 - Captain Arthur Phillip's ship arrives at Botany Bay.

January 1: First edition of The Times.

January 22 - Cyrus Griffin becomes the tenth and last President of the United States in Congress Assembled.
January 26 - Captain Arthur Phillip decides to make the permanent settlement at Sydney Cove
January 26 - Australia Day: 11 ships of First Fleet from Botany Bay led by Arthur Phillip land in what would become Sydney, Australia. Great Britain establishes the 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 the steamboat.
February 6 - Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 6th U.S. state.
February 9 - Austria enters the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1792 and attacks Moldavia.
17 February - the uninhabited Lord Howe Island was discovered by the brig HMS Supply, commanded by Lieutenant Ball, who was on his way from Botany Bay to Norfolk Island with convicts to start a penal settlement there.

March 14 - The Edinburgh Evening Courant carries a notice of £200 reward for capture of William Brodie, town councilor doubling as a burglar
March 21 - A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans leaving most of the town in ruins and twenty five percent of the population dead.

June 21 - New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 9th U.S. state. The Constitution then went into effect.
June 25 - Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 10th U.S. state.

August 8 - The French king agreed to convene the Estates-General meeting in May of 1789. It was the first time since 1614.
August 27 - Trial of William Brodie begins in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is sentenced to death by hanging

December 6 - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792: The Ottoman fortress of Ochakov falls to the Russians after a prolonged siege and a murderous storm at the temperature of -23 C.
December 14 - King Charles III of Spain dies and is succeeded by his son Charles IV of Spain.

"Battle" of Karansebes - Forces of Joseph II of Austria marching against Turks rout for nothing in Karansebes