January 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
December 7 » Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
December 18 » New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Christening day February 24, 1788
The temperature on February 24, 1788 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
January 18 » The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
January 20 » The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Port Jackson is a more suitable location for a colony.
February 9 » The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
March 21 » A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
April 7 » American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
May 23 » South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
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