Rulers:
• Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796)
• Charles IV, King of Spain (1788-1808)
Births:
• Byron, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Deaths:
• Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788)
Music:
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No. 40 (1788)
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter” (1788)
• Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825): Axur, re d’Ormus (1788)
Art:
• Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Amore e Psiche che si abbracciano (1787-93)
• Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Rocky landscape with Hagar and Ishmael (c.1788)
• Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): Francisco Cabarrús (1788)
• Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): San Francisco de Borja y el moribundo impenitente (1788)
• Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793): Regata sul Canal Grande (1780-93)
• Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792): Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus (1788)
• Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792): Portrait of Lord Donounghmore (1780-90)
• Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792): The Infant Hercules (c.1785-89)