In 1791 the Great Sejm | Great or Four-Year Sejm adopted the Constitution of May 3, 1791 | May 3 Constitution at Warsaw's Royal Castle, Warsaw | Royal Castle

The long-lasting sejm convened by Stanisław August in 1788 is known as the Great, or Four-Year Sejm.

In 1791, the " Great Sejm " or Four-Year Sejm | Four-Year Sejm of 1788-1792 and Senate adopt the May 3rd Constitution at the Royal Castle, Warsaw | Royal Castle in Warsaw

In 1791, the " Great Sejm " or Four-Year Sejm | Four-Year Sejm of 1788-1792 and Senate adopt the May 3rd Constitution at the Royal Castle, Warsaw | Royal Castle in Warsaw

He is remembered for his political writings during the " Great ( Four-Year ) Sejm " ( 1788 – 92 ) and for his support of the Constitution of May 3, 1791, adopted by that Sejm.

The Great Sejm, also known as the Four-Year Sejm ( Polish: respectively, Sejm Wielki or Sejm Czteroletni ; Lithuanian: Didysis seimas or Ketverių metų seimas ) was a Sejm ( parliament ) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that was held in Warsaw between 1788 and 1792.

The Patriotic Party (), also known as the Patriot Party or, in English, as the Reform Party, was a political movement in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the period of the Four-Year Sejm ( Great Sejm ) of 1788 – 92, whose chief achievement was the Constitution of 3 May 1791.

A major opportunity for reform seemed to present itself during the " Great " or " Four-Year Sejm " of 1788 – 92, which opened on 6 October 1788.

The Party was established during the Four-Year Sejm ( Great Sejm ) of 1788 – 92 by individuals that sought reforms aimed at bolstering the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, including seeking to reassert Poland's independence from the Russian Empire.

* Great Sejm ( Sejm Wielki ; 1788 – 1792 )

Through the Polish nobles whom Russia controlled and the Russian Minister to Warsaw, ambassador and Prince Nicholas Repnin, Empress Catherine the Great forced a constitution on the Commonwealth at the so-called Repnin Sejm of 1767, named after ambassador Repnin, who de facto dictated the terms of that Sejm ( and who ordered the capture and exile of some vocal opponents of his policies to Kaluga in Russian Empire., including bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski and others ).

Finally the Great Sejm of 1788 – 92 opened the necessary reforms.

Peter the Great seized on this opportunity to pose as mediator, threatened the Commonwealth militarily, and in 1717 forced Augustus and the nobility to sign an accommodation favorable to Russian interests, at the Silent Sejm ( Sejm Niemy ).

* 1 August 1919 – Sejm Ustawodawczy votes on resolution about " Temporary organisation of government in former Prussian Partition " ( O tymczasowej organizacji zarządu byłej dzielnicy pruskiej ), creating Ministry of Former Prussian Partition and plan of gradual unification of Great Poland with rest of country.

The forces of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, loyal to the King and the Great Sejm ( Sejm Wielki ), defended Poland and its May 3rd Constitution against primarily the army of the Russian Empire.

The Constitution of May 3, 1791 (; ) was drafted between October 6, 1788, and May 3, 1791, when it was adopted as a " Government Act " ( Ustawa rządowa ) by the Great Sejm of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch ).

Its adoption was preceded by a period of agitation for, and gradual introduction of, reforms, beginning with the Convocation Sejm of 1764 and the election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the Commonwealth's last king, and culminating in legislation adopted by the Great Sejm.

Town representatives participated in the Great Sejm and succeeded in regaining city rights, although it did not get a royal privilege.

In 1788 Reynolds painted the portrait of Lord Heathfield, who became a national hero for his successful defence of Gibraltar during its Great Siege from 1779 to 1783 against the combined forces of France and Spain.

About 1788 an order of the council required every ship liable to quarantine, in case of meeting any vessel at sea, or within four leagues of the coast of Great Britain or Ireland, to hoist a yellow flag in the daytime and show a light at the main topmast head at night, under a penalty of £ 200.

* Triple Alliance ( 1788 ) – Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and Prussia

Great fires ravaged the city in 1598, 1651, 1681, 1708, twice in 1717, 1742, 1788, 1841 and 1842 ; these were only the worst cases.

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

Born at Great Crossings in 1788.

During Kōkaku's reign, the Imperial Court attempted to re-assert some of its authority by proposing a relief program to the Bakufu at the time of the Great Tenmei Famine ( 1782 – 1788 ) and receiving information about negotiations with Russia over disputes in the north.

* Alexander Campbell ( clergyman ) ( 1788 – 1866 ), Religious reformer on the American Frontier during the Second Great Awakening

The " thema regium " appears as the theme for the first and last movements of the 7th Sonata in D Minor by Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, written in about 1788, and also as the theme for elaborate variations by Giovanni Paisiello in his " Les Adieux de la Grande Duchesse ds Russies ," written in about 1784, upon his departure from the court of Catherine the Great.

Alexander Campbell ( 12 September 1788 – 4 March 1866 ) was an early leader in the Second Great Awakening of the religious movement that has been referred to as the Restoration Movement, or Stone-Campbell Movement.

Specifically, according to the Ta Min Hui Tien ( Great Ming compendium of laws ), a report gleaned from the records of Tehchow, Shantung, China ( archived and researched in the years 1673, 1788 and 1935 ): 3 months after the death of Paduka Batara ( the Tausug potentate who visited the Chinese Emperor Yung Lo and died on October 23, 1417 ), a High Court Mandarin, Chan Chien, was ordered to sail to Kumalarang ( Chinese texts refer to " Kumalalang "), a vassal state of the Sulu Sultanate located on the northwestern coast of Taguima ( Basilan Is.

He attended Frederick the Great during that monarch's last illness, and afterwards issued various books about him, of which the chief were Über Friederich den Grossen und meine Unterredung mit ihm kurz vor seinem Tode (" On Frederick the Great and my conversation with him shortly before his death ", 1788 ) and Fragmente über Friedrich den Grossen (" Fragments on Frederick the Great ", 1790 ).

The modern history of the city began with the arrival of a First Fleet of British ships in 1788 and the foundation of a penal colony by Great Britain.

Duke Frederick II had two sons and two daughters by his first marriage to the late Princess Augusta ( 3 December 1764 – 27 September 1788 ), the daughter of Duke Karl II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Princess Augusta of Great Britain ( the elder sister of George III ) and the elder sister of Caroline of Brunswick, the estranged wife of the future George IV ( then Prince of Wales ).

This skilfully and persuasively argued work interprets the Revolution through a Marxist lens: first there is the " aristocratic revolution " of the Assembly of Notables and the Paris Parlement in 1788 ; then the " bourgeois revolution " of the Third Estate ; the " popular revolution ", symbolised by the fall of the Bastille ; and the " peasant revolution ", represented by the " Great Fear " in the provinces and the burning of châteaux.

These and the poems Bas-Bleu and Florio ( 1786 ) mark her gradual transition to more serious views of life, which were fully expressed in prose, in her Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society ( 1788 ), and An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World ( 1790 ).

The first creation, in the Peerage of Great Britain, was in 1788 for Richard Howe, but became extinct on his death in 1799.

Category: 1788 establishments in Great Britain

The Triple Alliance of 1788 was a military alliance between Great Britain, Prussia and the United Provinces.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

* Weigley, Russell F. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861 – 1865.

* 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid ( the Great Locomotive Chase ) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia ( now Kennesaw ).

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.

* 1972 – The Great Khali, Indian wrestler

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1669 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, Russian wife of Peter the Great ( d. 1731 )

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.

* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.

* 1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

* 1963 – Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £ 2. 6 million in bank notes.

* 1929 – Ronnie Biggs, English criminal, part of the Great Train Robbery of 1963

Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220 – 221.

* 1958 – Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait " A Great Day in Harlem " in front of a Brownstone in New York City.

* 1964 – Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.

* 1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.

* 1917 – A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32 % of the city leaving 70, 000 individuals homeless.

* 1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years ' War between Great Britain and France.

* 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.