* 1730 – Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher ( d. 1788 )

* 1788 – Adoniram Judson, American missionary ( d. 1850 )

Augustin-Jean Fresnel ( ; ; 1788 – 1827 )

* 1788 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist ( d. 1853 )

* 1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French navy officer and explorer ( d. 1788 )

* 1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

In 1788 Jean Jacques Barthelemy ( 1716 – 95 ), a highly esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, published The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, about a young Scythian descended from Anacharsis.

* 1788 – Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet ( d. 1862 )

* 1788 – Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist ( d. 1848 )

* 1714 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader ( d. 1788 )

* 1730 – Antonín Kammel, Czech composer and violinist ( d. 1788 )

* 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.

* Reuben Cone ( 1788 – 1851 ), an important pioneer and landowner in Atlanta, Georgia

Zalta, Venice ( 1788 – 1795 )

* Infante Carlos of Spain, Count of Molina ( 1788 – 1855 ), first Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain ( as Charles V )

** Charles III ( 1759 – 1788 )

** Charles IV ( 1788 – 1808, 1808 )

The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.

David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 – 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 – 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 – 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.

The Shihab leadership continued until the middle of the 19th century and culminated in the illustrious governorship of Amir Bashir Shihab II ( 1788 – 1840 ) who, after Fakhr-al-Din, was the most powerful feudal lord Lebanon produced.

" His father-in-law provided the money he needed for the trip, and David headed for Rome with his wife and three of his students, one of whom, Jean-Germain Drouais ( 1763 – 1788 ), was the Prix de Rome winner of that year.

A notorious instance from the Britannica's early years is the rejection of Newtonian gravity by George Gleig, the chief editor of the 3rd edition ( 1788 – 1797 ), who wrote that gravity was caused by the classical element of fire.

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The Love of Helen and Paris by Jacques-Louis David ( oil on canvas, 1788, Louvre, Paris ); a love that soon faded, when Helen realized that Paris is not a man of courage and strong character.

" In verse, Dwight wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The Conquest of Canaan, finished in 1774 but not published until 1785, a somewhat ponderous and solemn satire, The Triumph of Infidelity ( 1788 ), directed against David Hume, Voltaire and others ; Greenfield Hill ( 1794 ), the suggestion for which seems to have been derived from John Denham's Coopers Hill ; and a number of minor poems and hymns, the best known of which is that beginning " I love thy kingdom, Lord ".

* Elizabeth Boggs ( born 1788 ), who married David Crouse in 1807.

* David Lennox ( 1788 – 1873 ), colonial bridge builder

David Montagu Erskine ( 1776 – 1855 ) was a member of parliament and diplomat ; Henry David ( 1786 – 1859 ) was dean of Ripon ; Thomas ( 1788 – 1864 ) became a judge of the court of Common Pleas ; Esmé Steuart ( 1789 – 1817 ) fought at the battle of Waterloo where he lost an arm ( his widow Eliza married Admiral James Norton, who also lost an arm in action ).

David Gouverneur Burnet ( April 14, 1788 – December 5, 1870 ) was an early politician within the Republic of Texas, serving as interim President of Texas ( 1836 and again in 1841 ), second Vice President of the Republic of Texas ( 1839 – 41 ), and Secretary of State ( 1846 ) for the new state of Texas after it was annexed to the United States of America.

David Rittenhouse Porter ( October 31, 1788 – August 6, 1867 ) was the ninth Governor of Pennsylvania.

* David Ellicott Evans ( 1788 – 1850 ), U. S. Representative from New York, 1827

* David Evans ( Canon at St Asaph ) ( 1705 – 1788 ), Welsh clergyman and writer

* David G. Burnet ( 1788 – 1870 ), president of the interim government of the Republic of Texas during 1836

* David Williams ( philosopher ) ( 1738 – 1816 ), ordained minister, theologian and political polemicist, founder in 1788 of the Royal Literary Fund

In 1788 Wollaston land was enclosed under an act of parliament, at the time David Hennell, a lace dealer from wollaston wrote " I lament that this field is now agoing to be enclosed.

Helmer married Anna Bellinger ( 1757 – 1841 ) and sired ten children: Frederick ( 1777 ), Margaret ( 1778 ), Anna ( 1781 ), Adam ( 1783 ), Peter ( 1786 ), Elizabeth ( 1788 ), Catharine ( 1790 ), David ( 179?

HBC trader David Thompson wintered at a Peigan encampment on the Bow River in 1787 – 1788, and in 1800 returned to the area as a North West Company employee.

* David Carnegie ( 5 April 1749 – 19 February 1788 )

Pierre-Jean David ( March 12, 1788 – January 4, 1856 ), usually called David d ' Angers to avoid confusion with the unrelated painter Jacques-Louis David, was a French sculptor and medallist.

Mozart's Davide penitente ( 1785 ), his Piano Concerto in E flat major ( 1785 ), the Clarinet Quintet ( 1789 ) and the great Symphony in G minor ( 1788 ) had been premiered on the suggestion of Salieri, who supposedly conducted a performance of it in 1791.

* 1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor ( K550 ).

* Cook G. C. Thomas Southwood Smith FRCP ( 1788 – 1861 ): leading exponent of diseases of poverty, and pioneer of sanitary reform in the mid-nineteenth century.

* Thomas G. Waterman ( 1788 – 1862 ), New York politician

* Pittock, Murray G. H. ( September 2004 ; online edn, May 2006 ) " Charles Edward ( 1720 – 1788 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press,, retrieved 2007-12-14 ( subscription required )