Important Events
- Jan 18 First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony
- Jan 26 Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day
- Jun 21 US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
- Aug 13 Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
- Dec 17 Russian army of Grigory Potemkin occupies Ocharov
Lord Byron
Robert PeelWorld Leaders in 1788
Louis XVI
King of France- William Pitt the Younger
British Prime Minister
Louis XVI
William Pitt the YoungerFamous People in 1788
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical Musician and Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartFamous Deaths
- Jan 5 Johann Schneider, German composer and pupil of Bach, dies at 85
- Jan 11 François Joseph Paul de Grasse, French admiral (commanded the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake), dies at 64
- Jan 14 François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
- Jan 15 Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77
- Jan 17 Alessio Prati, Italian composer, dies at 37
