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1788| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1788 | Germany [philosophy] | The German philosopher Immanuel Kant publishes the second of his major works, Kritik der practischen Vernunft/Critique of Practical Reason, which deals with ethics. | | 1788 | Japan [art] | The Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro publishes his series of woodblock prints Poem of the Pillow. Among the best-known of these erotic scenes is Lovers on a Balcony. | | 1788 | Scotland [earth sciences] | Scottish geologist James Hutton's paper ‘Theory of the Earth’ expounds his uniformitarian theory of continual change in the Earth's geological features and marks a turning point in geology. | | 20 January 1788 | France [political events] | The Parlement of Paris presents a list of grievances against the French government to the king, Louis XVI, in effect declaring itself the defender of French liberties. | | 22 January 1788 | England [births and deaths] | George Gordon, Lord Byron, English Romantic poet, born in London, England (–1824). | | 5 February 1788 | England [births and deaths] | Robert Peel, British prime minister 1834–35 and 1841–46, founder of the Conservative Party, born in Bury, Lancashire, England (–1850). | | 9 February 1788 | Habsburg Monarchy, Ottoman Empire [Russian–Ottoman Wars (1768–1878)] | The Habsburg monarch and Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II declares war on the Ottoman Empire. | | 21 March 1788 | USA [natural disasters] | A great fire in New Orleans, Louisiana, destroys nearly the entire city. | | 30 May 1788 | UK [cricket] | The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in London, England, codifies the laws of cricket in England. | | June 1788 | Sweden, Russia [wars] | Sweden declares war on Russia, invading Russian Finland and aiming to recover the Baltic provinces lost to Tsar Peter the Great at the beginning of the century. | | 2 August 1788 | England [births and deaths] | Thomas Gainsborough, English portrait and landscape painter, dies in London, England (61). | | 22 August 1788 | Africa [colonization] | A British settlement is founded in Sierra Leone, West Africa, for freed slaves. |
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Eldon, John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Nasolini, Sebastiano
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| 1749 and 1758, Adamson made a reconnoissance of the river, and visited Gorea; from 1785 to 1788, Golberry and Geoffroy travelled across the deserts of Senegambia, and ascended as far as the country of the Moors, who assassinated Saugnier, Brisson, Adam, Riley, Cochelet, and so many other unfortunate men. In the first place, Mademoiselle Cormon, following the custom and rule of her house, had always desired to marry a nobleman; but from 1788 to 1798 public circumstances were very unfavorable to such pretensions. |