1787

1787 (MDCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1787th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 787th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1787, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1787 by topic
Arts and science
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Poetry
  • Music
  • Science
Countries
  • Canada
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Great Britain
  • Ireland
  • Norway
  • Russia
  • Scotland
  • Sweden
  • United States
Lists of leaders
  • State leaders
  • Colonial governors
  • Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
  • Births
  • Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
  • Establishments
  • Disestablishments
Works category
  • Works
1787 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1787
MDCCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita2540
Armenian calendar1236
ԹՎ ՌՄԼԶ
Assyrian calendar6537
Balinese saka calendar1708–1709
Bengali calendar1194
Berber calendar2737
British Regnal year27 Geo. 3 – 28 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2331
Burmese calendar1149
Byzantine calendar7295–7296
Chinese calendar丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4483 or 4423
    — to —
丁未年 (Fire Goat)
4484 or 4424
Coptic calendar1503–1504
Discordian calendar2953
Ethiopian calendar1779–1780
Hebrew calendar5547–5548
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1843–1844
 - Shaka Samvat1708–1709
 - Kali Yuga4887–4888
Holocene calendar11787
Igbo calendar787–788
Iranian calendar1165–1166
Islamic calendar1201–1202
Japanese calendarTenmei 7
(天明７年)
Javanese calendar1713–1714
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4120
Minguo calendar125 before ROC
民前125年
Nanakshahi calendar319
Thai solar calendar2329–2330
Tibetan calendar阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
1913 or 1532 or 760
    — to —
阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
1914 or 1533 or 761
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September 17: The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.

Events

January–March
  • January 9 – The North Carolina General Assembly authorizes nine commissioners to purchase 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land for the 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, two moons of Uranus.
  • January 19 – Mozart's Symphony No. 38 is premièred in Prague.
  • February 2 – Arthur St. Clair of Pennsylvania is chosen as the new President of the Congress of the Confederation.[1]
  • February 4 – Shays' Rebellion in Massachusetts fails.
  • February 21 – The Confederation Congress sends word to the 13 states that a convention will be held in Philadelphia on May 14 to revise the Articles of Confederation.[1]
  • February 28 – A charter is granted, establishing the institution which will become the University of Pittsburgh.
  • March 3 – By a vote of 33 to 29, Harrisburg is approved as the new capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.[2]
  • March 17 – The Bank of North America, the central bank of the United States government under the Articles of Confederation, is re-incorporated after its charter had expired in 1786.[2][3]
  • March 28 – In the British House of Commons, Henry Beaufoy files the first motion to repeal the Test Act 1673, which restricts the rights of non-members of the Church of England.;[4] Beaufoy's motion is rejected, and the Act is not repealed until 1829.
  • March 30 – Biblical theology becomes a separate discipline from biblical studies, as Johann Philipp Gabler delivers his speech "On the proper distinction between biblical and dogmatic theology and the specific objectives of each" upon his inauguration as the professor of theology at the University of Altdorf in Germany.[5]

April–June

July–September
  • July 13 – The Congress of the Confederation enacts the Northwest Ordinance, establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory (the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin). It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states, and limits the expansion of slavery.[1]
  • July 18 – The United States ratifies its first treaty with the Sultanate of Morocco.[1]
  • August 9 – South Carolina cedes to the United States its claims to a 12-mile wide strip of land that runs across northern Alabama and Mississippi.[1]
  • 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 invade the Dutch Republic. 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 signed by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.[1]
  • September 24 – Washington Academy (later Washington & Jefferson College) is chartered by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.[8]

October–December

Date unknown
  • 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.[9]
  • The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Waynesborough, and designates it the seat for Wayne County, North Carolina.
  • Antoine Lavoisier is the first to suggest that silica is an oxide of a hitherto unknown metallic chemical element, later isolated and named silicon.
  • Freed slave Ottobah Cugoano publishes Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species in England.
  • J. Cl. Todes Døtreskole, the first serious school for girls in Denmark, is founded.
  • A fossil bone is recovered from Cretaceous strata at Woodbury, New Jersey is discussed by the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.[10]

Births
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Louis Daguerre

Date unknown
  • Juana Galán, Spanish heroine (d. 1812)
  • Shaka, Zulu king (d. 1828)

Deaths
Roger Joseph Boscovich
  • February 13
    • Rudjer Boscovich, Croatian scientist, diplomat (b. 1711)
    • Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman, diplomat (b. 1717)
  • February 21 – Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, Spanish composer (b. 1722)
  • February 28 – Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel, German princess (b. 1722)
  • March 8 – Samuel Graves, British Royal Navy admiral (b. 1713)
  • March 22 – Charles de Fitz-James, Marshal of France (b. 1712)
  • April 2 – Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)
  • May 10 – William Watson, English physician, scientist (b. 1715)
  • May 26 – Lord John Murray, British politician (b. 1711)
  • May 28 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
  • May 31 – Felix of Nicosia, Cypriot Catholic saint (b. 1715)
  • June 10 – La Caramba (Maria Antonia Fernandez), Spanish flamenco singer and dancer (b. 1751)
  • June 14 – Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun, German scientist (b. 1714)
  • June 17 – José de Gálvez, Spanish politician (b. 1720)
  • June 20 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723)
  • July 4 – Charles, Prince of Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
  • July 25 – Arthur Devis, British artist (b. 1712)
  • August 1 – Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptorist Order (b. 1696)
  • August 7 – Francis Blackburne, English Anglican churchman, activist (b. 1705)
  • August 13 – Marc Antoine René de Voyer, French noble (b. 1722)
  • August 16 – John Ponsonby (politician), Irish politician (b. 1713)
  • September 7 – Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, 4th Duke of Liria and Jérica, Spanish duke (b. 1752)
  • October 7 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
  • October 28 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German author and collector of folk tales (b. 1735)[13]
  • November 3 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
  • November 4 – Johan Daniel Berlin, Norwegian composer and organist (b. 1714)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
  • November 15 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
  • December 11 – Robert de Lamanon, French botanist (b. 1752)
  • date unknown
    • Maria Pellegrina Amoretti, Italian lawyer (b. 1756)
    • The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal, sufferer from the rare condition Craniopagus parasiticus (b. 1783)
    • Francis William Drake, British admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1724)

References
  1. Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167
  2. Burton Alva Konkle, George Bryan and the Constitution of Pennsylvania, 1731-1791 (William J. Campbell publishing, 1922) p299
  3. Congressional Record (December 8, 1913) p446
  4. Sheldon J. Godfrey and Judy Godfrey, Search Out the Land: The Jews and the Growth of Equality in British Colonial America, 1740-1867 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995) p129
  5. Craig Bartholomew, Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Zondervan, 2011) p2
  6. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 339–340. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  7. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 230–231. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  8. 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.
  9. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (1986). Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. pp. 97–98. ISBN 0-262-65038-X.
  10. Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Currie, Philip J.,, Padian, Kevin. San Diego. October 1997. ISBN 0-12-226810-5. OCLC 37141172.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  11. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Uhland, Johann Ludwig" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  12. Lee, Elizabeth (1894). "Mitford, Mary Russell (DNB00)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 84.
  13. Franz J. L. Thimm; William Henry Farn (1844). The Literature of Germany, from Its Earliest Period to the Present Time, Historically Developed ... Edited by W. H. Farn. p. 59.

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Further reading
  • John Blair; J. Willoughby Rosse (1856). "1787". Blair's Chronological Tables. London: H.G. Bohn. hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6349vh5n – via Hathi Trust.
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