1788.—First Race Stand erected.
— On December the 22nd, in consequence of the severity of the frost, on the receding of the tide, the water within the sand bar was frozen over.
1790.—January 13th, Mr. William Attree, at a public Vestry meeting at the Old Ship, was appointed Vestry Clerk, at 10 guineas per annum.
1792.—September 20th, by order of the Duke of York, an ox was roasted whole.
— Streeter’s mill (the mill on the Dyke Road, above Preston Drove), was removed by 86 oxen, from Bellevue field, now Regency square.
1792.—October 22nd, thirty-seven nuns, in the habit of their Order, landed at Shoreham, and afterwards proceeded to Brussels.
1793.—Brighton Camp is formed in the fields to the west of Brighton.
— April 26th, Rooke and Howell executed for robbing the mail.
— The east and west batteries erected.
— November 25th, the corner stone of the Chapel Royal laid, by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.