| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
| Decades: | 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s |
| Years: | 1784 1785 1786 - 1787 - 1788 1789 1790 |
| 1787 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science |
| Countries: Canada - Great Britain - |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1787 (MDCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1787
January - June
- January 6 -ommissioners to purchase 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land for the county seat of Chatham County. The town is named Pittsborough (later shortened to Pittsboro) for William Pitt the Younger.
- January 11 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, 2 moons of Uranus.
- February 4 - Shays' Rebellion fails.
- February 28 - A charter is granted establishing the institution known today as the University of Pittsburgh.
- April 2 - A Charter of Justice is signed providing the authority for the establishment of the first New South Wales (ie Australian) Courts of Criminal and Civil Jurisdiction.
- May 13 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with 11 ships packed with 1,000 convicts amd their jailers to establish a penal colony in Australia.
- May 14 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin arriving to write a new Constitution for the United States.
- May 25 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to convene a Constitutional Convention intended to amend the Articles of Confederation. However, a new Constitution for the United States is eventually produced. George Washington presides over the Convention.
- May - Orangist troops attack Vreeswijk, Harmelen and Maarssen; civil war starts in the Netherlands.
- June 6 - Franklin College, named for Benjamin Franklin, opens in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It later merges with Marshall College to become Franklin and Marshall College.
- June 20 - Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention that the government be called the United States.
- June 28 - Princess Wilhelmina of Orange, sister of Frederick, the king of Prussia, is captured by patriots and taken to Goejanverwellesluis, and not allowed to travel to the Hague.
July - December
- July 13 - The U.S. Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
- July 15 - Lord's cricket ground is established and the MCC incorporated.
- August 27 - Launching a 45-foot (14 m) steam powered craft on the Delaware River, John Fitch demonstrates the first U.S. patent for his design.
- September 13 - Prussian troops enter the Netherlands. Within a few weeks 40,000 Patriots (out of a population of 2,000,000) go into exile in France (and learn from observation the ideals of the French Revolution).
- September 17 - The United States Constitution is adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
- October 1 - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 - Battle of Kinburn: Alexander Suvorov, though sustaining a wound, routs the Turks.
- October 27 - The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, is published in a New York paper.
- October 29 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni (libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte) premieres in the Estates Theatre in Prague.
- December 7 - Delaware ratifies the Constitution and becomes the first U.S. state.
- December 8 - Mission La Purisima Concepcion is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 11 mission in the California mission chain.
- December 12 - Pennsylvania becomes the second U.S. state.
- December 18 - New Jersey becomes the third U.S. state.
Undated
- In Britain, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp found the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.
- The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Waynesborough and designates it the county seat for Wayne County, North Carolina.
- The element Silicon is first identified by Antoine Lavoisier as a component of the Latin term [[
wikt:silex|silex]] or "Flints" (meaning "Hard Rocks").
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1787 MDCCLXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2540 |
| Armenian calendar | 1236 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -57 – -56 |
| Berber calendar | 2737 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2331 |
| Burmese calendar | 1149 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7295 – 7296 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙午年十一月十二日 (4423/4483-11-12) — to —
丁未年十一月廿三日(4424/4484-11-23) |
| Coptic calendar | 1503 – 1504 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1779 – 1780 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5547 – 5548 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1842 – 1843 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1709 – 1710 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4888 – 4889 |
| Holocene calendar | 11787 |
| Iranian calendar | 1165 – 1166 |
| Islamic calendar | 1201 – 1202 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenmei 7 (天明7年) |
| Korean calendar | 4120 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2330 |
- February 10 - William Bradley, Britain's tallest ever man (d. 1820)
- March 7 - George Bethune English, American explorer and writer (d. 1828)
- March 11 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian General
- March 17 - Edmund Kean, British actor (d. 1833)
- April 26 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
- December 10 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
- December 16 - Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist (d. 1855)
Deaths
- February 13
- Rudjer Boscovich, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
- Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
- April 1 - Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710)
- April 2 - Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)
- May 10 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
- May 28 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
- June 20 - Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723)
- July 4 - Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
- August 1 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
- October 7 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
- November 3 - Robert Lowth, English bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
- November 15 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
- December 18 - Francis William Drake, British admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1724)
- December 18 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)
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