1787

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.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1787 MDCCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2540
Armenian calendar	1236 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	6537
Balinese saka calendar	1708–1709
Bengali calendar	1194
Berber calendar	2737
British Regnal year	27 Geo. 3 – 28 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2331
Burmese calendar	1149
Byzantine calendar	7295–7296
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4483 or 4423     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4484 or 4424
Coptic calendar	1503–1504
Discordian calendar	2953
Ethiopian calendar	1779–1780
Hebrew calendar	5547–5548
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1843–1844
- Shaka Samvat	1708–1709
- Kali Yuga	4887–4888
Holocene calendar	11787
Igbo calendar	787–788
Iranian calendar	1165–1166
Islamic calendar	1201–1202
Japanese calendar	Tenmei 7 (天明７年)
Javanese calendar	1713–1714
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4120
Minguo calendar	125 before ROC 民前125年
Nanakshahi calendar	319
Thai solar calendar	2329–2330
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 1913 or 1532 or 760     — to — མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Sheep) 1914 or 1533 or 761

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