1787

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s

1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792

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Events

• In Britain, Thomas Clarkson[?] and Granville Sharp[?] formed the "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 - Shay's 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 to write a new Constitution for the United States (George Washington is presiding).
• September 17 - United States Constitution adopted
• 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.

Births

• March 16 - Georg Ohm, German physicist.

Deaths

• June 20 - Karl Friedrich Abel, aged 63, German baroque composer
• November 3 - Robert Lowth, Bishop of the Church of England
• November 15 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer