The west coast of Grande Terre was approached by Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse in 1788, shortly before his disappearance, and the Loyalty Islands were first visited in 1796.

They were named by Krusenstern, after English explorer John Marshall, who visited them together with Thomas Gilbert in 1788, in route from Botany Bay to Canton ( two ships of the First Fleet ).

He visited Paris in 1788 where he made the acquaintance of Jean-François de La Harpe, André Chénier, Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes and other leading writers of the time.

He had visited important counting houses in Europe in 1788 and was a friend of Filippo Filicchi, a renowned merchant in Leghorn, Italy, with whom his firm was a major trading partner.

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.

No other Europeans visited Tasmania until the late eighteenth century, when several visited southern Tasmania ( then referred to as Van Diemens Land ) including Frenchman Marion du Fresne ( 1772 ), Englishmen Tobias Furneaux ( 1773 ), James Cook ( 1777 ) and William Bligh ( 1788 and 1792 ), and Frenchman Bruni d ' Entrecasteaux ( 1792 – 93 ).

Phillip visited the Manly Cove area, between 21 and 23 January 1788 and was so impressed by the confident and manly behaviour of the local Aboriginal people of the Cannalgal and Kayimai clans who waded out to meet his boat in North Harbour, that he gave the cove the name Manly Cove.

Meanwhile, American Captain Robert Gray, aboard the sloop Washington, visited the Oregon Coast in his 1788 voyage to the west coast of the Americas.

In 1788 he visited Sankt Petersburg where he met the Copenhagen organ bulder Kirsnick who was in Petersburg at that time and was the fist one known to use free reeds in organ pipes.

In 1788 Dumont visited Paris with Romilly.

While the northern part of the Shire ( via the Hawkesbury River ) was visited by the first European settlers in late 1788, due to the Shire's rugged landscape permanent European settlement did not begin until almost half a century later.

Arthur Young, the English writer and economist, visited Combourg on his travels through France in 1788.

The vicinity of Seven Hills was first visited by Europeans very early on in the settlement of the colony of New South Wales, possibly as early as April, 1788 by Arthur Phillip or more certainly by Watkin Tench in June 1789.

* Goethe visited the Tuscolo country between 1786 to 1788, staying in Frascati.

Wells was located and visited by his brothers around 1788 or 1789.

He notes, for instance, that after Mozart's unhappy visit to Salzburg in 1783, Wolfgang and Marianne never visited each other again, that they never saw each other's children, and that their correspondence diminished to a trickle, ceasing entirely in 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 islands were named the Gilbert Islands in 1820 by a Russian admiral, Johann von Krusenstern, and French captain Louis Duperrey, after a British captain, Thomas Gilbert, who crossed the archipelago in 1788.

The French expedition was wrecked a short time later on the reefs of Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands during a cyclone sometime during April or May 1788, the circumstances remained a mystery for 40 years.

" Gilberts " comes from Captain Thomas Gilbert, who, along with Captain John Marshall, was one of the first Europeans to discover the Gilbert Islands in 1788.

Polynesian people settled the Kermadec Islands in around the 14th century ( and perhaps previously in the 10th century ), but the first Europeans to reach the area — the Lady Penrhyn in May 1788 — found no inhabitants.

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.

The Bounty Islands were discovered by Captain William Bligh in 1788 and named after his ship, HMS Bounty, just months before the famous mutiny.

Meares in 1788 identified the Islands of St. James ( as named by Drake ) as 4 while Vancouver in 1792 identified them as 3 in number.

He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1787, and in 1788 made a second continental tour, the record of his travels appearing in 1815 and 1819 under the titles Recollections Abroad and A Classical Tour through Italy and Sicily.

* Charles III of Spain, known as Charles of Bourbon ( 1716 – 1788 ), King of Spain, Naples, and Sicily

Slow to learn the limits of Sweden's diminished strength, a party of nobles, who called themselves the " Hats ", dreamed of revenge on Russia and ruled the country from 1739 to 1765 ; they engaged in wars in 1741, 1757, 1788, and 1809, with more or less disastrous results as Russian influence grew after every Swedish defeat.

Whatever the actual cause, the results were catastrophic for the Eora people and their kin and by the early 19th century the Aboriginal population of the Sydney basin had been reduced to only 10 percent of the 1788 estimate.

A “ Letter from an Officer of Marines at New South Wales, 16 November 1788 ”, published in the London newspaper, The World, 15 May 1789, reported the glowing description of the island and its prospects by Philip Gidley King, but also drew attention to the fatal defect of the lack of a safe port: “ The said Island lies near Port Jackson, and is nearly as large as the Isle of Wight.

Obtaining a large tract ( which was called Jerusalem in 1789 ) in the present Yates county, she founded in 1788 the village of Hopeton on the outlet of Keuka Lake about a mile from Seneca Lake.

A large Victorian psychiatric hospital to the south of Redhill, the Royal Earlswood Hospital, initially the Philanthropic Society's farm school for convicts ' children, which was first established in 1788 at St. George's Fields, London, relocated here in 1855.

Britain deported religious objectors and criminals to America in large numbers before 1776, and transported them to Australia between 1788 and 1868.

In 1788 Clarkson published his Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade ( 1788 ), which was printed in large numbers.

Shrewsbury had a large medieval church of St Chad which fell down in 1788: it was quickly replaced by a circular church in Classical style by George Steuart, on a different site but with the same dedication.

* 1788-On July 24, 1788, Governor General Lord Dorchester proclaims the land area to be divided up into " Lower Canada " with a French legal system and " Upper Canada " with a British legal System, whereby the land districts had been named Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nassau and Hesse in honor of the Royal family and the present large Germanic population.

In 1758, a young Jacques-Jean le Coulteux du Molay ( 1740 – 1823 ), equerry to King Louis XV, and his wife Geneviéve – Sophie le Coulteux de la Noraye ( painted below in 1788 ); built the chateau, his first large residence, in the heart of Normandy ’ s woodland countryside, close to Rouen, his birthplace.

In 1788 a large Qing army was sent south to restore Lê Mẫn Đế to the throne.

He collected a large party and they set out on a Sunday of August 1788.

Qianlong agreed to restore Lê Chiêu Thống to power, and so in 1788, a large Qing army marched south into Vietnam and captured the capital Thăng Long.

In 1788 Gray had attempted to enter a large river, but was unable to due to the tides, this river being the Columbia River.

From 1788 Holland began transforming the building, the east front had two double height bows added, to the north the present saloon was created circular in plan with two apses to north and south, the exterior was of the form of a large bow surrounded by Ionic columns, and to the north of that the farmhouse copied, the west front was quite plain, a tetrastyle, Ionic portico in the centre flanked by two wings forming an open court.

The Linen Hall Library, the oldest library in Belfast, has endured many changes of fortune since its foundation in 1788, but has maintained a vision of providing access to literature and local studies to the population at large.

Jonathan Shipley ( 1714 – 6 December 1788 ) was the son of a London stationer ; his mother's family were owners of Twyford House, a large manor in Winchester, England.

In 1788 she was commissioned by the king's brother, the Count of Provence ( later Louis XVIII of France ), to paint him at the centre of a large historical work, Réception d ' un chevalier de Saint-Lazare par Monsieur, Grand maître de l ' ordre.

By 1788 a number of Russian settlements had been established by Shelikhov and others over a large region, including the mainland areas around Cook Inlet.

Subsequently, In January 1788, Tippu Sultan invaded Malabar with a large army and founded a new capital at Feroke for his Malabar province.

It is a large rural suburb with a population of 1788 in the 2001 census.

* Caughnawaga, New York, established in 1788 and named after a local Mohawk community, was a large town, constituting much of Montgomery County north of the Mohawk River until its subdivision eliminated it.