1788 in Great Britain

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Events from the year 1788 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References 5 See also

[edit] Events

• 1 January - First edition of The Times, previously The Daily Universal Register, was published. ^[1]
• 18 January - Captain Arthur Phillip's ship arrives at Botany Bay.
• 26 January - Eleven ships of First Fleet from Botany Bay led by Arthur Phillip land in what would become Sydney, Australia. Britain establishes the prison colony of New South Wales, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.
• 31 January - Henry Benedict Stuart becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Henry IX and the figurehead of Jacobitism.
• 17 February - the uninhabited Lord Howe Island was discovered by the brig HMS Supply, commanded by Lieutenant Ball, who was on his way from Botany Bay to Norfolk Island with convicts to start a penal settlement there.
• 14 March - The Edinburgh Evening Courant carries a notice of £200 reward for capture of William Brodie, town councilor doubling as a burglar.
• 27 August - Trial of William Brodie begins in Edinburgh. He is sentenced to death by hanging.
• 1 October - William Brodie hanged.

[edit] Births

• 22 January - George Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet (d. 1824)
• 5 February - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
• 22 September - Theodore Edward Hook, author (d. 1841)

[edit] Deaths

• 31 January - Charles Edward Stuart, claimant to the British throne (b. 1720)
• 18 February - John Whitehurst, clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713)
• 29 March - Charles Wesley: Co-founder (with brother, John Wesley) of the religious movement now known as Methodism (b. 1707)
• 18 June - Adam Gib, religious leader (b. 1714)
• 2 August - Thomas Gainsborough, painter (b. 1727)
• 15 October - Samuel Greig, admiral (b. 1736)
• 6 December - Jonathan Shipley, bishop and politician (b. 1714)
• 22 December - Percivall Pott, surgeon (b. 1714)

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of years in Great Britain