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

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