This article is about the year 1787.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1787 MDCCLXXXVII
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| Ab urbe condita | 2540 |
| Armenian calendar | 1236 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -57 – -56 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2331 |
| 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
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2447 (皇紀2447年) |
| Julian calendar | 1832 |
| Korean calendar | 4120 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2330 |
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Year 1787 (MDCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events[]
January–June[]
- January 6 – The North Carolina General Assembly authorizes nine commissioners 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 (i.e. Australian) Courts of Criminal and Civil Jurisdiction.
- May 13 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with 11 ships packed with 1,000 convicts and 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.
- September 24 – Washington Academy (now Washington & Jefferson College) was chartered by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.[1]
- 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 3 – James Rumsey demonstrates a water-jet propelled boat on the Potomac.
- 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.
Date unknown[]
- 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.
- Caroline Herschel is granted an annual salary of £50 by King George III of Great Britain for acting as assistant to her brother William in astronomy.[2]
- 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 silex or "Flints" (meaning "Hard Rocks").
Births[]
- January 1 – Manuel José Arce, Revolutionary General and first President of The Federal Republic of Central America. (d. 1847)
- February 10 – William Bradley, Britain's tallest man ever 7 ft 9 in. (d. 1820)
- February 17 – George Mogridge (Old Humphrey), British writer and poet (d. 1854)
- March 7 – George Bethune English, American explorer and writer (d. 1828)
- March 11 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian General (d. 1852)
- March 17 – Edmund Kean, British actor (d. 1833)
- April 26 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
- June 28 – Sir Harry Smith, English soldier and military commander (d. 1860)
- November 7 – Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language (d. 1864)
- November 18 – Louis Daguerre, French artist and chemist (d. 1851)
- November 21 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian business, prominent Nova Scotian, founder of the Cunard Line (d. 1865)
- December 10 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
- December 16 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist (d. 1855)
Date unknown[]
- Hugh Maxwell, American lawyer and politician (d. 1873)
Deaths[]
- February 13
- 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
References[]
- ^ Coleman, Helen Turnbull Waite (1956). Banners in the Wilderness: The Early Years of Washington and Jefferson College. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 199. OCLC 2191890. http://www.archive.org/details/bannersinthewild012852mbp.
- ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (1986). Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. pp. 97–98. ISBN 0-262-65038-X.
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People of the year 1787 at Familypedia
153 people were born in 1787
122 children were born to the 65 women born in 1787
99 people died in 1787
8530 people lived in 1787
Events of the year 1787 at Familypedia
114 people were married in 1787.
| Joined with | |
|---|---|
| Asahel Adams (1769-1844) | Sarah Herrick (1758-1797)+ Polly Lowell (1771-1857) |
| Elizabeth Allen (1764-) | William Ingram (c1766-1817) |
| Klaas Baan (1760-1823) | Grietje Rol (1764-1828) |
| William Babbitt (1766-1813) | Lydia Bishop (1766-1840) |
| Mary Baker (1766-1849) | George Fordham (1760-1843) |
| Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851) | Rebecca Sherman (1764-1795) + Elizabeth Sherman (1765-1850) |
| Timothy Baldwin (1762-1823) | Prudence Chapman (1768-1846) |
| Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 1st Bt. (1762-1857) | Dorothy St. Aubyn (-1830)+Georgina Matilda Stirling (-1873) |
| Jemima Bidwell (1765-1842) | William Partridge (1753-1836) |
| Elisha Warner Bingham (1765-1802) | Sarah Perry (1764-1844) |
| Lydia Bishop (1766-1840) | William Babbitt (1766-1813) |
| Sarah Broadaway (c1767- | Abraham Marson (c1767- |
| Jacobus Brussé (c1768-1813) | Adriana Honing (1757-1844) |
| William Buck (1765-1805) | Elizabeth Murray (1770-1808) |
| Teetje Buurman (1750-1794) | Paulus Rentenier (1751-1799) |
| ... further results | |
There were 0 military battles in 1787.