1787

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 - 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 to write a new Constitution for the United
     States (George Washington is presiding).
   * July 13 - The United States Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance
     establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also
     establishes procedures for the admition of new states and limits the
     expansion of slavery.
   * 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

Monarchs/Presidents

   * China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October
     18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)

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