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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
September 17: The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.

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.

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[]

  • 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 7 – The New Church is founded.
  • May 13 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with the 11 ships of the First Fleet, carrying around 700 convicts and at least 300 crew and guards, to establish a penal colony in Australia.
  • May 14 – In Philadelphia, delegates begin arriving for a Constitutional Convention.[1]
  • May 22 – In Britain, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.
  • May 25 – In Philadelphia, delegates begin to convene the Constitutional Convention, intended to amend the Articles of Confederation (however, a new United States Constitution is eventually produced). George Washington presides over the Convention.
  • May – Orangist troops attack Vreeswijk, Harmelen and Maarssen; civil war starts in the Dutch Republic.
  • May 31 – The original Lord's Cricket Ground in London holds its first cricket match;[6] Marylebone Cricket Club founded.[7]
  • 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 King Frederick William II of Prussia, is captured by Dutch Republican patriots, taken to Goejanverwellesluis and not allowed to travel to The Hague.

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 , 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 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[]

  • Hugh Maxwell, Scottish-born American lawyer, politician (d. 1873)
  • Juana Galán, Spanish heroine (d. 1812)
  • Shaka, Zulu king (d. 1828)

Deaths[]

Roger Joseph Boscovich
Christoph Willibald Gluck

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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)

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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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