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* Timeline of pre-United States history
* List of years in the United States

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Events from the year 1788 in the United States.

## Incumbents

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### Federal government

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* President: Cyrus Griffin (starting January 29)
* Congress of the Confederation

Governors and lieutenant governors

### Governors

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* Governor of Connecticut: Samuel Huntington (Federalist) (starting January 9)
* Governor of Delaware: Thomas Collins (no political party)
* Governor of Georgia: George Mathews (no political party) (January 2-January 26), George Handley (no political party) (starting January 26)
* Governor of Maryland: William Smallwood (no political party) (April 28-November 24), John E. Howard (starting November 24)
* Governor of Massachusetts: John Hancock (no political party) (starting February 6)
* Governor of New Hampshire: John Langdon (Democratic-Republican) (starting June 21)
* Governor of New Jersey: William Livingston (Federalist)
* Governor of New York: George Clinton (Democratic-Republican) (starting July 26)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Benjamin Franklin (Independent) (until November 5), Thomas Mifflin (no political party) (starting November 5)
* Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Pinckney (Federalist) (starting May 23)
* Governor of Virginia: Edmund Randolph (no political party) (June 25-December 1), Beverley Randolph (no political party) (starting December 1)

### Lieutenant governors

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* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott (Federalist) (starting January 9)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Benjamin Lincoln (Federalist) (starting February 6)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Pierre Van Cortlandt (political party unknown) (starting July 26)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Gadsden (Federalist) (starting May 23)

## Events

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* January 2 - Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 4th U.S. state under the new government (see History of Georgia).
* January 9 - Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 5th U.S. state (see History of Connecticut).
* January 22 - the Continental Congress, effectively a caretaker government, elects Cyrus Griffin as its last president.
* February 1 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat in Georgia.
* February 6 - Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 6th U.S. state (see History of Massachusetts).
* March 21 - Great New Orleans Fire (1788) kills 25% of the population and destroys 856 buildings, including St. Louis Cathedral and the Cabildo, leaving most of the town in ruins. At the time New Orleans was a Spanish colony that would be secretly given to France in 1800. Not until 1803 would New Orleans as part of the Louisiana Purchase become part of the United States.
* April 7 - American pioneers establish the town of Marietta (in modern-day Ohio), the first permanent American settlement outside the original Thirteen Colonies.
* April 13 - A riot, the Doctors' Mob, begins. Residents of Manhattan are angry about grave robbers stealing bodies for doctors to dissect. The rioting is suppressed on the 15th.
* April 28 - Maryland ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 7th U.S. state (see History of Maryland).
* May 23 - South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 8th U.S. state (see History of South Carolina).
* June 21 - New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 9th U.S. state (see History of New Hampshire), the Constitution goes into effect.
* June 25 - Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 10th U.S. state under the new government (see History of Virginia).
* July 26 - New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th U.S. state (see History of New York).
* November 15 - Cyrus Griffin resigns as President of the Continental Congress after only two delegates arrived for the final session.

### Ongoing

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* Articles of Confederation in effect (1781–1788)
* Northwest Indian War (1785–1795)

## Births

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* April 14 - David Gouverneur Burnet, politician (died 1870)
* September 15 - Gerard Brandon, 4th and 6th Governor of Mississippi from 1825 till 1826 and from 1826 till 1832. (died 1850)
* September 21 - Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States (died 1852)
* November 8 - Jabez W. Huntington, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1840 till 1847. (died 1847)
* Date unknown - Sacagawea, interpreter and guide on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (died 1812)

## Deaths

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* January 9 - Benedict Swingate Calvert, judge (born 1722)
* February 28 - Thomas Cushing, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (born 1725)
* March 29 - Charles Wesley (born 1707)
* September 14 – John Penn, founding father (born 1741)
* Thomas Adams, politician and business man (born 1730)

## See also

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* Timeline of the American Revolution (1760–1789)

## References

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## External links

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* Media related to 1788 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons

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