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

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

Augustin-Jean Fresnel ( ; ; 1788 – 1827 )

* 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.

For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788 he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own ; and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790 he had no fewer than three Mozart masses in his luggage.

Leopold Gmelin ( 2 August 1788 – 13 April 1853 ) was a German chemist.

* Leopold Gmelin ( 1788 – 1853 ), a German chemist

* P. h. carolinensis ( Gmelin, 1788 ), North America.

* Falco peregrinus japonensis, described by Gmelin in 1788, includes kleinschmidti, pleskei, and harterti, and seems to refer to intergrades with calidus.

* A. a. bengalensis ( Gmelin, 1788 ).

Originally described by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788, it is closely related to Sanford's Sea Eagle of the Solomon Islands, and the two are considered a superspecies.

The White-bellied Sea Eagle was first described by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788, although John Latham had made notes on the species in 1781, from a specimen obtained in February 1780 at Princes Island off the westernmost cape of Java during Captain Cook's last voyage.

The scientific name, Colaptes auratus cafer, is the result of an error made in 1788 by the German systematist, Johann Gmelin, who believed that its original habitat was in South Africa among the Xhosa people, then known as the " Kaffir " people.

* 1788 – Johann Friedrich Gmelin commences work on the 13th edition of Systema Naturae which includes the classification of many birds for the first time, especially those described by Latham

Johann Friedrich Gmelin named an owl after him in 1788 ( Strix tengmalmi ) in the mistaken belief that Tengmalm had been the first to describe it.

The Palm Cockatoo was originally described by German naturalist Gmelin in 1788.

Though described by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in Systema Naturae as Psittacus elegans in 1788, the Crimson Rosella had been described and named by John Latham in 1781 as the Beautiful Lory, and then Pennantian Parrot.

The type was described as Canis pomeranus by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revision of Systema naturae in 1788 ( printed in English in 1792.

The Yellow-naped Parrot or Yellow-naped Amazon ( Amazona auropalliata ) is an Amazon parrot sometimes considered to be a subspecies of Yellow-crowned Amazon, Amazona ochrocephala ( Gmelin, 1788 ).

The Kōkako was first described by German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.

The New Zealand Kaka was described by German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.

Another again enhanced work in the same style and entitled "" was published by Johann Friedrich Gmelin between 1788 and 1793.

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

* 1728 – Johann Gottfried Müthel, German composer and noted keyboard virtuoso ( d. 1788 )

* 1714 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer ( d. 1788 )

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

* 1857 – Joseph von Eichendorff, German poet ( b. 1788 )

* 1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher ( b. 1788 )

* 1705 – Matthäus Günther, German painter ( d. 1788 )

* February 22 – Wilhelmine Reichard, first German women balloonist ( b. 1788 )

* January 31 – Friedrich Rückert, German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages ( b. 1788 )

* November 26 – Joseph von Eichendorff, German poet ( b. 1788 )

* December 22 – Johann Peter Pixis, German pianist and composer ( b. 1788 )

* September 21 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher ( b. 1788 )

* June 11 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer ( d. 1788 )

* March 8 – Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, German composer ( d. 1788 )

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ( 8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788 ) was a German classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second ( surviving ) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.

There have been ethnic Germans in Australia since the founding of the New South Wales colony in 1788, Governor Arthur Phillip ( the first Governor of New South Wales ) had a German father.

Originally written in German, the book will be translated into English in 1788.

By 1788, however, German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster realized that grebes and loons were different enough to warrant separate genera, and moved the Red-throated Loon ( along with all other loon species ) to its present genus.

* December 22-Johann Peter Pixis, German pianist and composer ( b. 1788 )

Friedrich Rückert ( 16 May 1788 – 31 January 1866 ) was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages.

Besides editing, with memoirs, the works of Friedrich von Hagedorn, Zachariä and other German poets, he was the author of a Handbuch der klassischen Literatur ( 1783 ); Entwurf einer Theorie und Literatur der schönen Wissenschaften ( 1783 ); Beispielsammiung zur Theorie und Literatur der schönen Wissenschaften ( 8 vols, 1788 – 1795 ); Lehrbuch der Wissenschaftskunde ( 1792 ); and Denkmäler altdeutscher Dichtkunst ( 1799 ).