1787

Year 1787 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 11-day slower ).

January - June

 * - The North Carolina General Assembly authorizes nine commissioners to purchase 100 acres of land for the county seat of . The town is named Pittsborough (later shortened to ) for.
 * - discovers  and, two s of.


 * - fails.




 * - Charter granted establishing the institution known today as the.
 * - Captain leaves,  with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a  in.
 * - In, delegates begin to meet to write a new for the.
 * - In, delegates begin to convene a intended to amend the . However, a new  for the  was eventually produced.  presided over the Convention.
 * - troops attack,  and . Civil war starts in the.


 * - Franklin College, named for, opens in . It later merges with Marshall College to become.
 * -, sister of , the king of , is captured by and taken to , and not allowed to travel to.

July - December

 * - The enacts the  establishing governing rules for the . It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of.


 * - Launching a forty-five-foot steam powered craft on the Delaware River, demonstrates the first US patent for his design.


 * - troops enter the . Within a few weeks 40,000  (out of a population of 2,000,000) went into exile in France (and learned from observation the ideals of the ).
 * - is adopted by the  in.


 * - :, though sustaining a wound, routs the Turks in the.
 * - the first of the, a series of essays calling for ratification of the , was published in a paper.
 * - Premiere of 's  ( by ) in the  in.


 * - ratifies the Constitution and becomes the first.
 * - The is founded by, becoming the eleventh mission in the  chain.
 * - becomes the second.
 * - becomes the third.

Undated

 * In Britain, and  found the "Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade" with support from,  and others.
 * The incorporates  and designates it the county seat for,.

Births

 * -, Britain's tallest ever man (d. )
 * -, American explorer and writer (d. )
 * -, British actor (d. )
 * -, German poet (d. )
 * -, American educator (d. )
 * -, English novelist and dramatist (b. )

Unknown dates

 * The  was first identified by  as a component of the   or "s" (meaning "Hard Rocks").


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. )
 * February 13 -, French statesman and diplomat (b. )
 * -, English classical scholar (b. )
 * -, British general (b. )
 * -, English physician and scientist (b. )
 * -, Austrian composer (b. )
 * -, German composer (b. )


 * -, Marshal of France (b. )
 * -, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. )
 * -, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. )
 * -, English bishop and grammarian (b. )
 * -, German composer (b. )
 * -, British admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (b. )
 * -, English writer (b. )

Unknown dates

 * (none)


 * See also .