1787

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  – 1780s –  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1784 1785 1786 – 1787 – 1788 1789 1790

1787 Media

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  September 17: The United States Constitution is signed by delegates of the 13 member states in Philadelphia.

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  Fraunhofer

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  • Portrait of Louis Daguerre (1787-1851)
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  Roger Joseph Boscovich

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  Christoph Willibald Gluck

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

• May 13 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with the First Fleet, 11 ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
• August 16 – Lieutenant William Bligh takes command of the HMVA Bounty.
• December 23 – The HMVA Bounty is sent to Tahiti to collect breadfruit plants.

Date unknown

• The Pennsylvania Prison Society is started.

Births

• March 16 – Georg Ohm, German physicist
• December 10 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the American School for the Deaf

Deaths

• May 28 – Leopold Mozart, composer
• June 20 – Karl Friedrich Abel, German Baroque composer