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Birthday July 7, 1788

• The temperature on July 7, 1788 was about 15.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
• 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)
• In the year 1788: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 2 » Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  • 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.
  • January 26 » The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Commemorated as Australia Day.
  • 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 8 » King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne by abolishing the parlements.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1752 » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French merchant, invented the Jacquard loom († 1834)
• 1766 » Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general († 1815)
• 1831 » Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American poet and religious writer († 1914)
• 1833 » Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator († 1898)
• 1843 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1926)
• 1846 » Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian physician and author († 1916)