1787 in Great Britain
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1787 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1787 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Incumbents
- Monarch - King George III
- Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory
Events
- 1 January - George III writes his first letter to Arthur Young's Annals of Agriculture, under the name of Ralph Robinson of Windsor.
- 11 January - William Herschel discovers the Uranian moons Titania and Oberon.[1]
- 13 May - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.[2]
- 22 May - Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.[2]
- 31 May - The original Lord's Cricket Ground holds its first cricket match;[3] Marylebone Cricket Club founded.[4]
- 23 December - Captain William Bligh sets sail for Tahiti on the Bounty.[3]
- undated - Principal Triangulation of Great Britain completed under the direction of General William Roy.
Publications
- The Scots Musical Museum begins publication.
Births
- 10 February - William Bradley, Britain's tallest ever man (died 1820)
- 17 March - Edmund Kean, actor (died 1833)
- 16 December - Mary Russell Mitford, novelist and dramatist (died 1855)
Deaths
- 1 April - Floyer Sydenham, classical scholar (born 1710)
- 2 April - Thomas Gage, General (born 1719)
- 10 May - William Watson, physician and scientist (born 1715)
- 3 November - Robert Lowth, bishop and grammarian (born 1710)
- 18 December - Francis William Drake, British admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (born 1724)
- 18 December - Soame Jenyns, English writer (born 1704)
References
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ a b "BBC History British History Timeline". Archived from the original on 09 September 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070909012414/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 339–340. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 230–231. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
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