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.

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.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

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.

Robert Adam designed the screen which was added to the entrance front in 1788.

The first paper on boxing was published in the late 18th century by successful Birmingham boxer ' William Futrell ' who remained undefeated until his one hour and seventeen minute fight at Smitham Bottom, Croydon, on July 9, 1788 against a much younger " Gentleman " John Jackson which was attended by the Prince of Wales.

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.

When this was completed in 1788, the heavy cavalry regiments had become either Dragoon Guards or Heavy Dragoons ( depending on their precedence ).

" 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.

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.

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.

Alexander Gordon ( 1739 – 1792 ), third son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a Lord of Session from 1788 to 1792 under the judicial title of Lord Rockville.

His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.

Washington was elected president as the unanimous choice of the 69 electors in 1788, and he served two terms in office.

His grandfather Franz Böhm ( 1788 – 1846 ) ( the violinist Joseph Böhm's brother ) was the well-known musician and the soloist in the Russian empire in an imperial orchestra.

Captain Arthur Phillip assumed office as Governor of New South Wales on 7 February 1788, when the Colony of New South Wales, the first British settlement in Australia, was formally founded.

Mary Anne Evans was the third child of Robert Evans ( 1773 – 1849 ) and Christiana Evans ( née Pearson ) ( 1788 – 1836 ), the daughter of a local farmer.

When Virginia created Kanawha County in 1788, Boone was appointed lieutenant colonel of the county militia.

Lamarck became involved in the Jardin des Plantes and was appointed to the Chair of Botany in 1788.

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

In 1788 he was unanimously appointed president of the Virginia Ratifying Convention.

He was promoted to vice-admiral in 1787, and in July 1788, was appointed to the Board of Admiralty under John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, brother of the Prime Minister.

Seizing an opportunity, Kara Mahmud sent the sultan the heads of an Austrian delegation in 1788, and the Ottomans appointed him governor of Shkodër.

Traditional Aboriginal society had been governed by councils of elders and a corporate decision making process, but the first government established in Sydney after 1788 was an autocratic system run by an appointed governor-although English law was transplanted into the Australian colonies by virtue of the doctrine of reception, thus notions of the rights and processes established by the Magna Carta of 1215 and the Bill of Rights of 1689 were brought from Britain by the colonists.

Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston ( 1720 – 26 August 1788 ), sometimes called Countess of Bristol, was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Chudleigh ( died 1726 ), and was appointed maid of honour

After his father's death in 1787, Dalhousie joined the British Army in July 1788 by purchasing a cornetcy in the 3rd Dragoons, and was later appointed to the captaincy of an independent company he himself had raised.

In March 1786, the disgraced Russian poet and statesman Gavrila Derzhavin was appointed the governor of the Tambov Governorate — a post that he held until December 1788.

Georgia appointed civil and judicial officers for the new county, but under pressure from the U. S. government, Georgia dissolved Bourbon County in 1788.

He was appointed to the Bengal Civil Service in 1778, and in 1788 carried into execution the permanent settlement of Bengal.

When the first state government was organized, Benson was appointed the first New York Attorney General and served until 1788.

In 1788, he was appointed as a delegate to the Virginia Convention called to ratify the United States Constitution.

He was appointed the first court clerk for the court established at Marietta in 1788.

Through such connections, he came to be appointed as architect to the Bank of England until his death ( caused by catching a chill at his friend Asgill's funeral in September 1788, he is buried in Poets ' Corner, Westminster Abbey ) when he was succeeded by Sir John Soane.

Secretary of the Catholic Committee from 1782, he was appointed by them to draft a new relief bill in 1788: despite controversy within the English Catholic community over the extent to which the Catholic condition should be assimilated to that of Protestant dissenters, a bill passed on 24 June 1791.

In 1788 Edward Christian, brother of Fletcher Christian, was appointed to the post prior to its official creation 12 years later.

He served as a Massachusetts state senator from 1785 to 1788, and was appointed to the United States Senate in 1788.

He was Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia from 1783 to 1788, appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland and a member of the Privy Council ( Great Britain & Ireland ) in 1787, serving in the former position until 1789.

In 1777 he was appointed to the English church in Utrecht, and about 1788 to the professorship of moral philosophy and ecclesiastical history in the university, to which was soon added the professorship of the law of nature.

He was appointed printer to the clergy in 1788.