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1788
(
place
)
by
Gorgonzola
Fri Nov 10 2000 at 1:18:48
Born in 1788:
English
poet
George Gordon,
Lord Byron
French
mathematician
Jean Victor Poncelet
.
German
philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer
.
Margaret Mackall Smith
, later wife of president
Zachary Taylor
.
English architect
Thomas Cubitt
.
English writer
Richard Barham
.
David G. Burnet
, first president of the
Republic of Texas
.
French physicist
Augustin Fresnel
, inventor of the predominant type of
lighthouse
lens
.
South Carolina
journalist
and
playwright
Isaac Harby
, one of the founders of American
Reform Judaism
.
French
archaeologist
Jacques de Perthes
.
American architect
William Strickland
.
Norwegian
painter
Johan Christian Dahl
.
German
poet
Joseph Eichendorff
.
American journalist
Sarah Josepha Hale
, author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
English politician
Robert Peel
, prime minister (1834-1835), (1841-1846),
Died in 1788:
French mathematician
Comte Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
English painter
Thomas Gainsborough
.
English author
Mary Delany
.
German composer
Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach
.
English hymnist
Charles Wesley
, brother of
John Wesley
.
Carlos III
, king of
Spain
.
French
philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
.
English politician
George Montagu
, champion ofthe American colonies in Parliament.
Infamous
Japanese
politician
Tanuma Okitsugu
.
English novelist
Eliza Haywood
.
Events of 1788:
A fleet carrying convicts arrives at
Botany Bay
in
Australia
.
Poland
convenes an assembly of "
Sejm
" to reform the government, in hopes of preventing further
dismemberment
by
Prussia
,
Austria
, and
Russia
.
Food riots in
France
.
The
Estates-General
meets
for the first time since
1614
.
A large (~8.0)
earthquake
strikes southern
Alaska
. The resulting
tsunami
kills an unknown (but large) number of people.
A fire destroys most of
New Orleans
.
Several
states
ratify the
United States Constitution
:
(January 9)
Connecticut
(February 6)
Massachusetts
(April 28)
Maryland
(May 23)
South Carolina
(June 21)
New Hampshire
(June 25)
Virginia
(July 26)
New York
George Washington
is elected the
first
President of the United States
. Washington receives 69
electoral
votes to
John Adams
' 34. Adams becomes the first
vice-president
.
A settlement which will later become
Cincinnati
is founded in
Ohio
.
1787
-
1788
-
1789
1789
1787
How I made the Year Nodes
Edward Valentine Blomfield
Robert Craggs-Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent
Royal Botanic Gardens
Comin Thro' the Rye
Botany Bay
January 26
Groin
1518
Monkey Soy Leprechaun - Real Or Malarkey, Begorrah? - A Dublin Nodermeet
Charles Pinckney
American History
Thomas Gainsborough
Pama-Nyungan
The Great Synagogue
1778
C.P.E. Bach
Spanish water torture
18th century
Colonization
1908
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