Elizabeth Walser

[edit] Events of 1788

[edit] January - June
January 1 - The first edition of The Times, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
January 2 - Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 4th U.S. state under the new government.
January 9 - Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 5th U.S. state.
January 18 - Captain Arthur Phillip's ship arrives at Botany Bay.

January 1: First edition in London of The Times.January 22 - Cyrus Griffin becomes the 10th and last President of the United States in Congress Assembled.
January 26 - Captain Arthur Phillip decides to make the permanent settlement at Sydney Cove.
January 26 - Australia Day: Eleven ships of the First Fleet from Botany Bay, led by Arthur Phillip, land in what will become Sydney, Australia. Great Britain establishes the prison colony of New South Wales, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.
January 31 - Henry Benedict Stuart becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Henry IX and the figurehead of Jacobitism.
February 1 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.
February 6 - Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 6th U.S. state.
February 9 - Austria enters the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1792 and attacks Moldavia.
February 17 - The uninhabited Lord Howe Island is discovered by the brig HMS Supply, commanded by Lieutenant Ball, who is on his way from Botany Bay to Norfolk Island with convicts to start a penal settlement there.
March 14 - The Edinburgh Evening Courant carries a notice of £200 reward for the capture of William Brodie, a town councilor doubling as a burglar.

March 21: Fire in New Orleans requires rebuilding Jackson Square area.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.
April 13 - America's first recorded riot, the Doctors' Mob, begins. Residents of Manhattan are angry about grave robbers stealing bodies for doctors to dissect. The rioting is suppressed on the 15th.
April 28 - Maryland ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 7th U.S. state.
May 10 - The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Sweden's national stage, is founded.
May 23 - South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 8th U.S. state.
June 7 - France: Day of the Tiles, which some consider the beginning of the French Revolution.
June 9 - England: The African Association, a exploration group dedicated to plotting the Niger River and finding Timbuktu, is founded.
June 21 - New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 9th U.S. state; the Constitution goes into effect.
June 25 - The Virginia Ratifying Convention‎ ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 10th U.S. state under the new government.
June 26 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his antepenultimate symphony, now called the Symphony No. 39 (Mozart) in E-flat. He completes the 40th and 41st in July and August.

[edit] July - December
July - Louis XVI of France calls for a spring session of the Estates General.
July 24 - Governor General Lord Dorchester, by proclamation issued from Castle of St. Louis in the City of Quebec, divides the Canadas into five Districts, namely: Gaspe, Lunenburg, Meckleburg, Nassau and Hesse.
July 26 - New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th U.S. state.
July 28- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his penultimate symphony, now called the Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) in G Minor.
August 8 - French King Louis XVI agrees to convene the Estates-General meeting in May 1789, the first time since 1614.
August 10 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his final symphony, now called the Symphony No. 41 (Mozart) in C Major, and nicknamed (after Mozart's death) The Jupiter.
August 27 - The trial of William Brodie begins in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is sentenced to death by hanging.
September 17 - "Battle" of Karansebes: Forces of Joseph II of Austria marching against the Turks, believing themselves attacked, starting firing at each other, causing up to 10,000 casualties.
October 1 - William Brodie is hanged.
December 6 - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792: The Ottoman fortress of Özi falls to the Russians after a prolonged siege and a murderous storm at the temperature of -23 C.
December 14 - King Charles III of Spain dies and is succeeded by his son Charles IV of Spain.

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Annual British iron production reaches 68,000 tons.

[edit] Events of 1813

[edit] January - March
January 28 - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is published.
February 11 - Fort Meigs: Leftwich is not successful, and when he leaves, Major Amos Stoddard assumes the command of the post.
February 26 - The Secretary of War orders Colonel R. M. Johnson to hold in readiness (reserves) a regiment of mounted volunteers who will serve from 4-6 months after being called into active service.
February - General Harrison sends out an expedition to burn the British vessels at Malden by going across Lake Erie via the Bass Islands in sleighs, but the ice is not hard enough and the expedition returns.
March 4 - James Madison is sworn in as President of the United States, for his second term.
March 22 - Col. R. M. Johnson puts out an order for raising a regiment of mounted volunteers in Kentucky.
March 29 - Mexican War of Independence - Battle of Rosillo Creek: The Republican Army of the North defeats the Spanish Royalist Army in present-day Bexar County, Texas.

[edit] April - June
April 8 - Colonel James Ball arrives at Fort Meigs with 200 dragoons.
April 27 - War of 1812 - Battle of York: United States troops raid, destroy, but do not hold the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Ontario).
May 2 - Battle of Lützen: Napoleon wins against the German alliance.
May 11- Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth leave on an expedition to cross the Blue Mountains.
May 20-May 21 - Battle of Bautzen: Napoleon again defeats his combined enemies.
May 27 - War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
June 6
War of 1812 - Battle of Stoney Creek: A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force 3 times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth succeed in crossing the Blue Mountains and return home.
June 21 - Peninsular War - Battle of Vitoria: A British, Spanish, and Portuguese force of 78,000 with 96 guns under Wellington defeats a French force of 58,000 with 153 guns under Joseph Bonaparte.

[edit] July - September
July 5 - War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
July 13 - Missionaries Adoniram Judson and his wife Ann Hasseltine Judson arrive in Burma.
August 19 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
August 23 - Battle of Großbeeren: Napoleon is defeated by Prussia and Sweden.
August 26 - Battle of Katzbach: Napoleon's troops are defeated by Prussia and Russia.
August 26-August 27 - Battle of Dresden: Napoleon's troops are victorious.
August 29-August 30 - Battle of Kulm: Napoleon's troops are defeated by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
August 31: After besieging San Sebastian, allied troops of Spain rampage, ransack and burn down the town almost entirely.
September - Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of Britain.
September 6 - Battle of Dennewitz: The armies of Napoleon are again defeated by Prussia and Russia.
September 10 - War of 1812 - Battle of Lake Erie: An American squadron under Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeats a British squadron, capturing 6 ships.

[edit] October - December
October 5 - War of 1812 - Battle of the Thames: William Henry Harrison defeats the British, and native leader Tecumseh is killed in battle.
October 14 - After a ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, the municipality gives Simón Bolívar the title of El Libertador.
October 16-October 19 - Battle of Leipzig: Napoleon is defeated.
October 24-November 5 - Persia and Russia sign the Treaty of Gulistan of 1813 at the end of the first Russo-Persian Wars (1804-1813) by which Persia (Iran) loses all its territories to the north of Aras River to the Russians.
October 25 - War of 1812 - Battle of Chateauguay: Charles de Salaberry defeats an American invasion at the
November 11 - War of 1812 - Battle of Crysler's Farm: the Americans are defeated by the British.
November 21 - An independent government is restored in the Netherlands.
December 29 - War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.

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Russian troops reach and take Berlin without a fight after the French garrison evacuates the city.
Mathieu Orfila publishes his groundbreaking Trait des poisons, formalizing the field of toxicology.
George Hamilton-Gordon serves as ambassador extraordinaire in Vienna.
Following the death of his father Wossen Seged, Sahle Selassie arrives at the capital Qundi before his other brothers, and is made Meridazmach of Shewa.
The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is founded (the oldest continuously-existing literary society in the United States).

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Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Peninsular War/Sixth Coalition
War of 1812 (1812-1815)