On December 23, 1788, Thompson seriously fractured his leg, forcing him to spend the next two winters at Cumberland House convalescing.

# On 6 January 1788, to Elisabeth of Württemberg ( 21 April 1767 – 18 February 1790 ), who died bearing a short-lived daughter, Ludovika Elisabeth of Austria ( 1790 – 1791 ).

On February 12, 1788, Madison in the Federalist Letter No. 54, stated that the Constitutional three-fifths compromise clause was the best alternative for the slaves current condition and for determining representation of citizens in Congress.

On 7 May 1788, he married the widow Mary Pitt ( née Baldwin ) at St Laurence's Church, Upton in Slough.

On January 1, 1788, the New York publishing firm J.

On 4 August 1897, a stone and bronze fountain was inaugurated in Grenoble to commemorate the pre-revolutionary events of June 1788.

On 8 July 1788 he became colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards and on 30 August 1788 he was created Baron Amherst of Montreal with a special provision that would allow this title to pass to his nephew ( as Amherst was childless, the Holmesdale title became extinct upon his death ).

On 7 February 1788, after his commission as Governor was read, Phillip addressed some words to the first settlers.

On the outbreak of the Russo-Swedish War of 1788 he served with distinction as admiral of the fleet, especially at the battles of Hogland ( 7 June 1788 ) and Öland ( 26 July 1789 ).

On April 7, 1788, 48 men of the Ohio Company of Associates, led by General Putnam, arrived at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers.

On the Thames, there had been a proposal for a canal from Lechlade to Abingdon in 1784, and for a cut from Inglesham to Buscot in 1788, but neither had been built.

On 8 August 1788, the King agreed to hold an Estates General the next year.

On the death of Michaelis in 1788 he was elected professor ordinarius at Göttingen, where he lectured not only on Oriental languages and on the exegesis of the Old and New Testaments, but also on political history.

* Über den Umgang mit Menschen ( On Human Relations ), 1788

On 10 November 1788, the emperor appointed him to the rank of Feldzeugmeister.

On his return to Britain, the Duke took his seat in the House of Lords, where, on 15 December 1788 during the Regency crisis, he opposed William Pitt's Regency Bill in a speech which was supposed to have been influenced by the Prince of Wales.

On 14 August 1788 William married Mary Johnson d ' Evelin.

On October 14, 1788 the minutes of the Executive Council report that Muhlenberg had left Philadelphia without tendering his resignation — why his resignation was needed or expected is not noted — so a messenger was sent after him.

On behalf of the North West Company Mackenzie travelled to Lake Athabasca where, in 1788, he was one of the founders of Fort Chipewyan.

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 June 18, 1788, it was incorporated as Fairfield.

On arrival, in January 1788, King was selected to lead a small party of convicts and guards to set up a settlement at Norfolk Island.

On 6 March 1788, King and his party landed with difficulty, owing to the lack of a suitable harbour, and set about building huts, clearing the land, planting crops, and resisting the ravages of grubs, salt air and hurricanes.

By June 19, 1788, he had presented himself to its Commander in Chief, the Governor of the Southern Provinces, the Director of the War College -- The Prince.

those of 1788 were going to prove decisive, though many of their details are obscure.

As Littlepage noted: `` A complete picture of Prince Potemkin may be had in his 1788 operations.

In 1788, with the approval of Congress, the Articles were replaced by the United States Constitution and the new government began operations in 1789.

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

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

* 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 )

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

Records from the early 19th century survive to this day describing the distinct dialect that had surfaced in the colonies since first settlement in 1788, with Peter Miller Cunningham's 1827 book Two Years in New South Wales, describing the distinctive accent and vocabulary of the native born colonists, different from that of their parents and with a strong London influence.

As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was responsible for music at the court chapel and attached school.

The success of his opera Tarare was such that it was soon translated into Italian at Joseph II behest by Lorenzo Da Ponte as Axur, Re d ' Ormus ( Axur, King of Hormuz ) and staged at the royal wedding of Franz II in 1788.

In 1788 Salieri returned to Vienna where he remained for the rest of his life.

Much of his sacred music dates from after his appointment as Hofkapellmeister in 1788.

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.

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.

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

The leading ship, reached Botany Bay setting up camp on the Kurnell Peninsula, on 18 January 1788.