* 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 )

* 1788 – David G. Burnet, American politician, president of the Republic of Texas ( d. 1870 )

* 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.

Speaking of the 3rd edition ( 1788 – 1797 ), Britannica's chief editor George Gleig wrote that " perfection seems to be incompatible with the nature of works constructed on such a plan, and embracing such a variety of subjects.

In 1788 he published a collection of 8 songs dedicated to his friend George Washington and his daughter called " Seven Songs for the Harpsichord " and voice.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield | Lord Heathfield ( 1788 ).

* April 19 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet ( b. 1788 )

* George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent ( 1788 – 1850 ) 1832 – 1835

Named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788.

The precedent of the Regency Crisis of 1788 ( from which George III recovered before it was necessary to appoint a Regent ) was followed.

Among the several 18th-century buildings remaining are a Friends ' meetinghouse ( 1788 ), the Martine house ( 1717 ), and the Nathaniel Drake House ( 1746 ), known as George Washington's headquarters.

George Ellicott lent Benjamin Banneker books and equipment to begin a more formal study of astronomy in 1788.

George Herbert Herbert ( 1788 – 1793 )

* King's-Edgehill School ; founded as King's Collegiate School by Royal Assent in 1788 and granted Royal Charter in 1802 by King George III

The state legislature divided Rowan County in 1788, and the new county was named Iredell for James Iredell, associate justice of the first Supreme Court during the presidency of George Washington.

In 1788, George Washington said, " No colony in America was ever settled under such favorable auspices as that which has just commenced at the Muskingum ... If I was a young man, just preparing to begin the world, or if advanced in life and had a family to make provision for, I know of no country where I should rather fix my habitation ...".

In late October 1788, George III descended into a bout of insanity, probably caused by an attack of the hereditary disease porphyria.

Byron usually refers to the British poet and writer George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( 1788 – 1824 ), commonly known as Lord Byron.

It tells the true story of George III's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his son, the Prince of Wales, particularly focusing on the period around the Regency Crisis of 1788.

In the same periodical, in the course of 1788 and 1789, appeared the Letters to Archdeacon Travis, against George Travis, on the debated Biblical verse called the Comma Johanneum ( 1 John 5: 7 ); the Letters were collected in 1790 into a volume.

This was first published in London in 1788 and includes a letter by Kippis to King George III of the United Kingdom dated June 13, 1788.

* George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( 1788 – 1824 ), British Romantic poet more commonly known as Lord Byron

In 1788 Mackintosh moved to London, then agitated by the trial of Warren Hastings and the first lapse into insanity of George III.