1787
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1787 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- In Britain, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharpthe "Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade" with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.
- January 11 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
- February 4 - Shays' Rebellion fails
- May 13 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
- May 14 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States.
- May 25 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to convene a Constitutional Convention intended to amend the Articles of Confederation. However, a new Constitution for the United States was eventually produced. George Washington presided over the Convention.
- June 6 - Franklin College, named for Benjamin Franklin, opens in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It later merges with Marshall College to become Franklin and Marshall College.
- July 13 - The U.S. Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
- August 27 - Launching a forty-five-foot craft on the Delaware River, John Fitch demonstrates the first US patent for his design.
- September 17 - United States Constitution is adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
- October 27 - the first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was published in a New York paper.
- December 7 - Delaware ratifies the Constitution and becomes the first U.S. state.
- December 12 - Pennsylvania becomes the second U.S. state.
- December 18 - New Jersey becomes the third U.S. state.
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Births
- March 16 - Georg Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
- April 26 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
- December 10 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
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Deaths
- February 13 - Rudjer Boscovich, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
- April 1 - Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710)
- May 10 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
- June 20 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723)
- July 4 - Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
- August 1 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
- October 7 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
- November 3 - Robert Lowth, English bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
- November 15 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
- December 18 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)
