* 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.

* April 30 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American author ( b. 1788 )

Garrick's play was a huge success, and major productions took place in the United States in 1756 ( with Hannah Pritchard as Catharine ), in 1788 ( with Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble ), in 1810 ( again with Kemble and his real life wife, Priscilla Hopkins Brereton ), and in 1842 ( with William Macready as Petruchio ).

* Sarah Goodridge ( 1788 – 1853 ), painter

* Jane McMechen ( born about 1788 ), who married 1 ) James Taylor in 1806 and 2 ) John Boggs ( widower of her sister Sarah ) in 1853.

They had five daughters ( Mary ( 1748 – 1788 ), Anna Marie ( 1749 – 1812 ), Elizabeth ( 1751 – 1815 ), Sarah ( 1753 – 1810 ), and Henrietta ( 1755 – 1756 )) before Mary died.

On July 31, 1750, he married Sarah Trowbridge ( December 3, 1724 – December 13, 1788 ), the daughter of Reverend Caleb Trowbridge and Hannah Trowbridge of Groton, Massachusetts.

On April 8, 1788, he married his cousin, Sarah Russell Lee ( 1766 – 1810 ).

He was married to Sarah Payne Ronald ( 1788 – 1857 ) for 51 years.

After the war Eggleston returned home to Egglestetton, and on February 23, 1788 he married Sarah ' Sally ' Meade.

The Britannica was dedicated to the reigning British monarch from 1788 to 1901 and then, upon its sale to an American partnership, to the British monarch and the President of the United States.

Vancouver did eventually learn of the river before he finished his survey — from Robert Gray, captain of the American merchant ship that conducted the first Euroamerican sailing of the Columbia River on 11 May 1792, after first sighting it on an earlier voyage in 1788.

* 1788 – South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state.

* 1725 – Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1788 )

Frequently reviled by Americans as a tyrant and the instigator of the American War of Independence, he was insane off and on after 1788 as his eldest son served as regent.

* August 23 – Rafael Urdaneta, hero of the Latin American War of Independence ( b. 1788 )

** Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman ( d. 1788 )

He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1788.

In America, expressions of gratitude to France for its help in the American Revolution included the naming of the city of Marietta, Ohio, founded in 1788.

The architect of the Second Bank of the United States was William Strickland ( 1788 – 1854 ), a former student of Benjamin Latrobe ( 1764 – 1820 ), the man who is often called the first professionally-trained American architect.

* Charles Robert Sherman ( 1788 – 1829 ), American lawyer and public servant

The founding of the British penal colony at Sydney Cove in 1788 was in the geopolitical context of the revolution in the American colonies in 1776 and a year before the French revolution of 1789.

Genevieve, the first American settlers started showing up in about 1788, and trickled upriver from Cape Girardeau and New Madrid.

* Robert P. Letcher ( 1788 – 1861 ) was an American politician who served as a U. S. Representative, diplomat and governor of Kentucky.

Bryan County was created on December 19, 1793, named after Jonathan Bryan ( 1708 – 1788 ), an American Revolutionary War partisan.

Following the American Revolutionary War, the town in 1788 revoked Mashpee self-government, which American officials considered a failure.

New Madrid was founded in 1788 by American frontiersmen.

The town was formed in 1788 by Colonel John Harper, who fought for the state of New York in the American Revolutionary war.