Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1787. 1787 (MDCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

The Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 involved an unsuccessful attempt by the Ottoman Empire to regain lands lost to the Russian Empire in the course of the...

assembled at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between May 25 and September 17, 1787. Delegates to the convention were chosen by the state legislatures of 12...

Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. Although the convention was intended to revise the league of states and...

North-West of the River Ohio and also known as the Ordinance of 1787), enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the...

monarchy and the Ottoman Empire, concomitantly with the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792). It is sometimes referred to as the Habsburg–Ottoman War or the Austro-Ottoman...

the urging of the Queen, Louis XVI dismissed Calonne on 8 April 1787. On 1 May 1787 Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Archbishop of Toulouse and...

Louise-Marie of France, OCD (15 July 1737 – 23 December 1787) was a French princess and Discalced Carmelite, the youngest of the ten children of King Louis...

Artur Stanisław Potocki (1787–1832) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic). He was the son of Julia Lubomirska and Jan Potocki, the travel writer best known...

The year 1787 in science and technology involved some significant events. January 11 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, the first moons of...

Events from the year 1787 in France. Monarch: Louis XVI 22 February - The Assembly of Notables is held 7 November - Louis XVI signs the Edict of Versailles...

Confederation. These states are presented in the order in which each ratified the 1787 Constitution, thus joining the present federal Union of states. Subsequent...

which established the United States as an independent nation. On December 7, 1787, Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States...

Independent Journal, the New York Packet, and The Daily Advertiser between October 1787 and April 1788. A compilation of these 77 essays and eight others were published...

Island died out, possibly due to a combination of climate change and hunting. 1787-1784 BC: The Amorite civilization conquers Uruk and Isin. 1786 BC: In Egypt...

Vessel Bounty, was a British merchant ship that the Royal Navy purchased in 1787 for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the South Pacific Ocean under...

Chardon was a whaler that Aget, Kenny, and Coffyn purchased in 1787 and commissioned at Dunkirk that same year. Benjamin Hussey purchased her in 1789 and...

112-gun three-decker ship of the line built at Ferrol for the Spanish Navy in 1787 to plans by Romero Landa, one of the eight very large ships of the line of...

Events from the year 1787 in art. Seventeen-year-old Thomas Lawrence arrives in London and takes lodgings near Sir Joshua Reynolds. William Beechey – Dorothea...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1787. January 15 – Ann Ward marries William Radcliffe, gaining the surname by...

John Green (29 June 1787 – 30 September 1852) and Benjamin Green (1811–14 November 1858) were a father and son who worked in partnership as architects...

Menshikov (‹See Tfd›Russian: Князь Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Ме́ншиков; 26 August 1787 – 2 May 1869) was a Russian nobleman, military commander and statesman. He...

Theodore Frelinghuysen (March 28, 1787 – April 12, 1862) was an American politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate. He was the...

74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 March 1787 at Deptford. She was the sixth vessel to bear the name. In December 1797...

developments were not witnessed by Mozart's father, who had died on 28 May 1787. In December 1787, Mozart finally obtained a steady post under aristocratic patronage...

(to a traditional tune) "Ein Schifflein sah ich fahren" (Soldier Song ca.1787) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Fantasia in F-sharp minor, H.300 Neue Melodien...

Ecclesiastical Courts Acts 1787 to 1860 is the collective title of the following Acts: The Ecclesiastical Suits Act 1787 (27 Geo. 3. c. 44) – repealed...

fought on 11–12 OctoberN.S./30 September – 1 OctoberO.S. 1787 as part of the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792). A weak fortress, Kinburn [ru] was located opposite...

Jean-François Sudre, also written Sudré (15 August 1787 – 3 October 1862), was a violinist, composer and music teacher who invented a musical language...

was a reason for the Ottoman armies being sent towards Scutari in 1787. In May 1787, Kara Mahmud Pasha took the initiative in the battle against the Ottomans...