1787

• January 1 - Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II issued a decree that effectively negated the rights of provincial states in the Austrian Netherlands . The decree supplementing it was issued on March 12 ^[1] .
• January 11 - William Herschel opens the satellites of Uranus - Titania and Oberon .
• February 27 - Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II issued a decree transferring control of the finances of Hungary to the Austrian government ^[1] .
• Establishment of the State Credit Fund in Denmark . A decree restricting the landowner's right to drive a Chinshevik peasant off the land.
• William Wilhelm returns to Holland with the help of Prussian troops. The most revolutionary elements leave the country, about 5 thousand emigrants fled to France.
• 1787–1788 - The economic crisis in France.
• Collection of "notables" in France. Strong opposition to the king and the demand for reform.
• Trade Agreement between Russia and Portugal .
• 1787— 1822 - Ruler of a part of the Balkans Ali Pasha Yaninsky (c. 1744 - 1822 ).
• August 24 - The Russian-Turkish war began (1787-1792) .
• Russian troops withdrawn from Georgia.
• The statesman Nguyen Hyu Tin was executed by the Teixons. He joined the rebellion, then went over to the side of Le.
• The rebels designated the city of Concord as a gathering place for the expedition to Boston . They gathered about 15 thousand. The army of General Lincoln defeated them and forced them to retreat from Massachusetts . The nationalization of the Government of the Confederation of the North-Western lands. Spring - Constitutional convention convened in Philadelphia.
• September 17 - Adoption of the second US Constitution . The states elected their own conventions, 12 of which approved the Constitution. Rhode Island rejected it by referendum.
• November 28 - The Treaty on an offensive and defensive alliance was signed at Versailles between France and Vietnam . France pledged to provide military assistance to Prince Nguyen Anu in the fight against the Teixons in exchange for exceptional privileges and the transfer of France to Fr. Poulo Condor and control over the bay of Da Nang . Not implemented due to the French Revolution ^[2] .

See also: Category: Born 1787

• January 24 - Christian Ludwig Brem , German ornithologist.
• March 16 - Georg Om , German physicist.
• May 11 - Alfred Candide Ferdinand Windischgrätz , Austrian Field Marshal (died 1862 )
• May 18 - Batiushkov, Konstantin Nikolaevich - Russian poet.
• June 7 - William Koniber , English geologist and paleontologist.
• June 19 - Pavel Petrovich Svinin , Russian writer, publisher, journalist and editor, artist, collector (died 1839 ).
• August 15 - Alexander Alexandrovich Alyabyev , Russian composer (died 1851 ).
• August 14 - Nikolai Ivanovich Grech , Russian writer, philologist, publisher, editor (died 1867 ).
• October 4 - Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot , French historian and political figure (died 1874 ).
• November 4th - Edmund Keane , English actor.
• November 17 - Louis Daguerre , inventor of photography .
• November 21 - Brian Waller Procter , English poet and playwright who wrote under the pseudonym " Barry Cornwall ."
• November 22 - Rasmus Raskus , Danish linguist.

See also: Category: Dead in 1787

• February 4 - Pompeo Batoni , Italian artist.
• May 21 - Sinesy (Ivanov) , Schei archimandrite of the Irkutsk Ascension Monastery , Reverend of the Russian Church .
• May 28 - Leopold Mozart , Austrian violinist and composer, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
• June 20 - Karl Friedrich Adel , German composer.
• October 28 - Johann Carl Augustus Museus (b. 1735 ), German writer, literary critic, philologist and teacher. The author of the collection "Folk tales of the Germans."
• November 15 - Christoph Willibald Gluck , German composer.