Editing 1788 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 1]] – [[William Brodie]] is [[hanging|hanged]] at the [[Tolbooth]] in Edinburgh.
* [[October 21]] – The 14th and last session of the [[Continental Congress]] and (the 6th as Congress under the Articles of Confederation) is adjourned.<ref name="Harper1788"/> 
* [[October]] – King [[George III of the United Kingdom]] becomes deranged; the [[Regency Crisis of 1788]] starts.
* [[November 8]] – Voting takes place in the 11 states that have ratified the United States Constitution for the first U.S. Senators; in Virginia, Richard Henry Lee and William Grayson, both anti-federalists, receive the highest number of votes in the Virginia Senate.<ref>Frank Fletcher Stephens, ''The Transitional Period, 1788–1789, in the Government of the United States'' (University of Missouri Press, 1909) pp17-18</ref>
* [[November 15]] – [[Cyrus Griffin]] of Virginia completes his service as the last [[President of the Continental Congress|President of the Congress of the Confederation]], under the [[Articles of Confederation]].
* [[November 20]] – In the United Kingdom, the Houses of Parliament are given the first formal report by [[William Pitt the Younger|Prime Minister Pitt]] of the mental illness of King George III. Parliament adjourns for two weeks, to await the results of examinations by royal physicians.<ref>Robert Huish, ''Memoirs of George the Fourth: Descriptive of the Most Interesting Scenes of His Private and Public Life, and the Important Events of His Memorable Reign'' (Thomas Kelly Publishers, 1830) p195</ref> 
* [[November 25]] – Fifty consecutive days of temperatures below freezing strike [[France]], a record that will be unbroken more than 200 years later.<ref>David Andress, ''The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution'' (Oxford University Press, 2015)</ref>
* [[December 6]] – [[Russo-Turkish War (1787–92)]]: The Ottoman fortress of [[Özi]] falls to the Russians after a prolonged siege, and a murderous storm with a temperature of {{convert|-23|C|F}}.
* [[December 14]] – King [[Charles III of Spain]] dies, and is succeeded by his son [[Charles IV of Spain|Charles IV]].
* [[December]] – [[Robert Burns]] writes his version of the [[Scots language|Scots]] poem ''[[Auld Lang Syne]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/robertburns/works/auld_lang_syne/|title=Robert Burns – Auld Lang Syne|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=2012-01-26}}</ref>