About the day » Saturday May 10, 1788Calender converter

• Anna van AERT, Zundert,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Cornelia Poulusse, Sint Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1866)
• Anthonie Janszn Koek, Roelofarendsveen
• Cornelia Augusteijns, Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1829)
• Bernardus Blekking (Blekkink), Aalten († 1836)
• Adriaan de Keijzer, Halsteren († 1863)
• Bauke Sjerps Vormeer, Bolsward
• abraham jacobs lofers, groningen
• amélie GAIE, Cuesmes (Belgium) Hainaut
• Catherine Pavlovna of RUSSIA, Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, St Petersburg, Russia († 1819)

• Jacoba Elisabeth Verhagen (0), Genderen
• Charles LEROUX (75), Saint Gilles De La Neuville 76
• Christina Elisabetha Schwartz (35), Arborn, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany
• Benoni Larwill (0)
• Count Weikhard of Trauttmansdorff (76), Graz, Steiermark, Austria
• Jan Evertsen van Ark (61), Amersfoort
• Jan Jans van Norel (65), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Gertrudis Buijtenhuijs (36), Harderwijk
• Franciscus Geerits, Dessel,Antwerpen,Belgium
• Jan "alias Papjan" (te Grefte) de Grifte (78), Neede

• 1755 » Robert Gray, American captain and explorer († 1806)
• 1760 » Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French captain, engineer, and composer († 1836)
• 1760 » Johann Peter Hebel, German author and poet († 1826)
• 1770 » Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general and politician, French Minister of War († 1823)
• 1788 » Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer († 1827)
• 1812 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer († 1902)
• 1813 » Montgomery Blair, American lieutenant and politician, 20th United States Postmaster General († 1883)
• 1838 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln († 1865)
• 1841 » James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American publisher and broadcaster († 1918)
• 1843 » Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright († 1920)

• 1717 » John Hathorne, American merchant and politician (b. 1641)
• 1726 » Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1670)
• 1774 » Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
• 1787 » William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (b. 1715)
• 1794 » Élisabeth of France, French princess and youngest sibling of Louis XVI (b.1764)
• 1798 » George Vancouver, English navigator and explorer (b. 1757)
• 1807 » Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725)
• 1818 » Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735)
• 1829 » Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• January 19 » The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
• March 6 » The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
• April 28 » Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• May 23 » South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
• June 25 » Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• July 25 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).

The temperature on May 10, 1788 was about 10.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.