* 1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson ( Sydney Harbour ) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.

In 1788 the African Association was formed in England to promote the exploration of Africa in the hopes of locating the Niger, and in June 1796 the Scottish explorer Mungo Park was the first European to lay eyes on the river.

The concept of dividing pre-historical ages into systems based on metals extends far back in European history, but the present archaeological system of the three main ages: stone, bronze and iron, originates with the Danish archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen ( 1788 – 1865 ), who placed the system on a more scientific basis by typological and chronological studies, at first of tools and other artifacts present in the Museum of Northern Antiquities in Copenhagen ( later the National Museum of Denmark ).

Permanent European settlers arrived at Sydney in 1788 and came to control most of the continent by end of the 19th century.

Following the pre-colonial period, European settlers began arriving with the First Fleet of British ships at Sydney harbour in 1788.

The Tasmanian Emu and King Island Emu subspecies that previously inhabited Tasmania and King Island became extinct after the European settlement of Australia in 1788 ; and the distribution of the mainland subspecies has been influenced by human activities.

It was thought to have been spotted on the east coast of Australia before 1788 when the first European settlement occurred.

Pitt sought European alliances to restrict French influence, forming the Triple Alliance with Prussia and the United Provinces in 1788.

At the first known town meeting of European settlers held on March 7, 1788, at an inn owned by Benjamin Green, the town named Stephentown was established.

European traditions came to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788, with the first production being performed in 1789 by convicts.

Evidence of permanent structures built by indigenous Australians before European settlement of Australia in 1788 is limited.

Following the arrival of permanent European settlement in Australia in 1788, the story of early Australian painting has been described as requiring of artists a shift from a " European sense of light " to an " Australian sense of light ".

Parramatta, founded in the same year as Sydney by the British in 1788, is the oldest inland European settlement in Australia and is the economic capital of Greater Western Sydney and the sixth largest central business district in Australia.

European settlement of Australia commenced in 1788.

In the first twenty years of European settlement at Sydney ( established 1788 ), exploration southwest of Sydney was slow.

Since European settlement of Australia in 1788, people of Anglo-Celtic ancestral origins have comprised the majority of the Australian population.

Art in Australia from 1788 onward is often narrated as the gradual shift from a European sense of light to an Australian one.

Several emu species were common prior to European settlement in 1788:

Thomas Gilbert, sailing in the East India Company vessels Charlotte was the first European to describe visiting Aranuka, in June 1788.

The first reported European sighting of Lord Howe Island was on 17 February 1788 when Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, commander of the Armed Tender HMS Supply ( the oldest and smallest of the First Fleet ships ) was on its way from Botany Bay with a cargo of 15 convicts ( 9 male, 6 female ) to found a penal settlement on Norfolk Island.

It is immediately adjacent to Circular Quay on Sydney Cove, the site of Australia's first European settlement in 1788.

The complex's elaborate opening ceremony was a centrepiece of Australia's bicentenary celebrations, which were held nationwide to mark the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet from England, and the foundation of European settlement in what was to become the City of Sydney in 1788.

The first known occasion when a European went to the area was in 1788, when Lieutenant Henry Ball passed through the area while returning from a trip to the Middle Harbour area.

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

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

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.

As a result scurvy broke out, and in October 1788 Phillip had to send Sirius to Cape Town for supplies, and strict rationing was introduced, with thefts of food punished by hanging.

Milestones among feedback, or " closed-loop " automatic control devices, include the temperature regulator of a furnace attributed to Drebbel, circa 1620, and the centrifugal flyball governor used for regulating the speed of steam engines by James Watt in 1788.

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.

The United States Constitution, adopted in 1788, provided for an elected government and protected civil rights and liberties for some.

" 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.

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.

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.

In 1788, 34 years after he had retired from the slave trade, Newton broke a long silence on the subject with the publication of a forceful pamphlet " Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade ", in which he described the horrific conditions of the slave ships during the Middle Passage, and apologized for " a confession, which ... comes too late ...

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.

Virginia ratified the Constitution in June 1788, largely because Monroe, Pendleton and followers suspended their reservations and vowed to press for changes after the new government had been established.

In Paris, in 1779, the Cour des Aides demanded their suppression, and in March 1788 the parlement of Paris made some exceedingly energetic remonstrances, which are important for the light they throw upon old French public law.

The alternative source of Norfolk Island for these, ( or in the case of flax and hemp, similar ) supplies is argued by some historians, notably Geoffrey Blainey in Tyranny of Distance, as being a major reason for the founding of the convict settlement of New South Wales by the First Fleet in 1788.

The need for an alternative non-Russian source of naval stores is indicated by the information from the British Ambassador in Copenhagen, Hugh Elliott, who wrote to Foreign Secretary, Lord Carmarthen on 12 August 1788: “ There is no Topick so common in the Mouths of the Russian Ministers, as to insist on the Facility with which the Empress, when Mistress of the Baltic, either by Conquest, Influence, or Alliance with the other two Northern Powers, could keep England in a State of Dependence for its Baltic Commerce and Naval Stores ”.

His ships, the Boussole and Astrolabe, anchored off the northern side of the island on 13 January 1788, but at the time high seas were running that made it too dangerous for the two ships ’ boats that were put out to attempt a landing: “ It was obvious that I would have had to wait maybe for a very long time for a moment suitable for a landing and a visit to this island was not worth this sacrifice ”, he recorded in his journal.

In 1788 the " Société des Amis des Noirs " was formed in Paris to bring about the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery itself.

* Article Five of the United States Constitution, ratified in 1788, prohibited any amendments before 1808 which would affect the foreign slave trade, the tax on the slave trade, or the direct taxation provisions of the constitution.

He wrote a long poem published in two parts called The Wrongs of Africa ( 1787 – 1788 ), and entered into a controversy with an ex-Roman Catholic priest called Fr Raymond Harris, who tried to justify the slave trade through the Bible ( and was generously paid for his efforts by Liverpool businessmen involved with the slave trade ).

She published a poem on Slavery in 1788, and was for many years a friend of Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London and a leading abolitionist, who drew her into the group of prominent campaigners against the slave trade such as Wilberforce, Charles Middleton and James Ramsay, based at Teston, Kent.

In a column in The Times of 1788, allegedly reporting a legal case in Philadelphia, a slave is charged with dishonestly handling goods he knows to be stolen and which he describes as insignificant, " only a piccaninny cork-screw and piccaninny knife-one cost six-pence and tudda a shilling ..." The anecdote goes on to make an anti-slavery moral however, when the black challenges the whites for dishonestly handling stolen goods too-namely slaves-so it is perhaps more likely to be an invention than factual.

In 1788, the British Committee for the Abolition of Slavery sent a Swedish opponent of the slave trade, Anders Sparrman, to Gustav III.

In 1788, Isert published his famous book Reise nach Guinea und den Caribäischen Inseln in Columbia ( Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia ), wherein he described his experiences with, and his views on, the slave trade.

A 1788 Parliamentary report counted over 4, 000 gun makers, with 100, 000 guns a year going to slave traders.

After winning a battle against a warring nation, he took with him a few soldiers to report back to his father, when he was ambushed, captured, and sold to slave traders in 1788 at the age of 26.

A 1788 Parliamentary report counted over 4, 000 gun makers, with 100, 000 guns a year going to slave traders.