Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
1788 (MDCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1788th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 788th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of ...
February 6 – Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 6th U.S. state (see History of Massachusetts). March 21 – Great New Orleans Fire (1788) kills 25% of the population and destroys 856 buildings, including St. Louis Cathedral and the Cabildo, leaving most of the town in ruins. At the time New Orleans was a ...
1788–1790: Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790). 1788: New Hampshire becomes the 9th state to ratify the United States Constitution, and by the terms of Article VII it takes effect. 1788–1789: Inconfidência Mineira, conspiracy against the colonial authorities in Brazil. 1789: George Washington is elected the first President of the United States.
Gilbert White publishes The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton (dated 1789). A record dry December with only 8.9 millimetres (0.4 in) England and Wales Precipitation produces the driest calendar year since records began in 1766, [11] with only 612.0 millimetres (24.09 in) of precipitation.
Pennsylvania History, Vol. 68, No. 4, The World of Elizabeth Drinker: Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Publication of Her Diary (Autumn 2001), pp. 465–482 Lazaro, David E. (2001). Construction in context : a 1790s gown from Medford, Massachusetts (PhD).
The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution , the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America , between 1776 and 1789.
Other events of 1788; Timeline of Australian history; The following lists events that happened during 1788 in Australia. Leaders. Monarch – George III;
1788 in the United States by state or territory (14 C) 1788 disestablishments in the United States (1 C, 2 P) 1788 establishments in the United States (20 C, 11 P)