1788

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 1788, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  – 1780s –  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1785 1786 1787 – 1788 – 1789 1790 1791

1788 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1788 MDCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2541
Armenian calendar	1237 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	6538
Balinese saka calendar	1709–1710
Bengali calendar	1195
Berber calendar	2738
British Regnal year	28 Geo. 3 – 29 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2332
Burmese calendar	1150
Byzantine calendar	7296–7297
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4484 or 4424     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4485 or 4425
Coptic calendar	1504–1505
Discordian calendar	2954
Ethiopian calendar	1780–1781
Hebrew calendar	5548–5549
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1844–1845
- Shaka Samvat	1709–1710
- Kali Yuga	4888–4889
Holocene calendar	11788
Igbo calendar	788–789
Iranian calendar	1166–1167
Islamic calendar	1202–1203
Japanese calendar	Tenmei 8 (天明８年)
Javanese calendar	1714–1715
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4121
Minguo calendar	124 before ROC 民前124年
Nanakshahi calendar	320
Thai solar calendar	2330–2331
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Sheep) 1914 or 1533 or 761     — to — ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Monkey) 1915 or 1534 or 762

Events

• January 26 – The First Fleet arrives at Sydney Cove, bringing the first European settlers to Australia. This is now celebrated as Australia's national day.
• October 25 – The HMVA Bounty reaches Tahiti.
• December 14 – Accession of Charles IV, King of Spain.
• Georgia becomes a state.

Births

• January 22 – Lord Byron, English poet
• February 5 – Robert Peel, British Prime Minister

Deaths

• January 31 – Bonny Prince Charlie, Pretender to the English Throne
• August 2 – Thomas Gainsborough, painter
• December 14 – Charles III, King of Spain