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HOW IT WORKS
1787 in Great Britain
Summary
Events from the year
1787
in
Great Britain
.
1787 in Great Britain:
Other years
1785
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1786
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1787
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1788
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1789
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1787 English cricket season
Incumbents
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Monarch
–
George III
Prime Minister
–
William Pitt the Younger
(
Tory
)
[1]
Events
edit
Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion
produced for the
Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
by
Wedgwood
, 1787
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
.
[2]
19 February – William Herschel first uses the
40-foot telescope
under construction for him at
Slough
.
13 May – Captain
Arthur Phillip
leaves
Portsmouth
with the eleven ships of the
First Fleet
carrying around 700 convicts and at least 300 crew and guards to establish a
penal colony
in
Australia
.
[3]
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.
[3]
31 May – the original
Lord's Cricket Ground
holds its first
cricket
match;
[4]
Marylebone Cricket Club
founded.
[5]
July –
Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
begun under the direction of General
William Roy
from Hounslow Heath; in the autumn it is extended to France.
[6]
Summer –
Calton Weavers Strike
in the west of Scotland. On 3 September, six of the
Calton weavers
are killed by troops.
23 December – Captain
William Bligh
sets sail from
Spithead
for
Tahiti
on
HMS
Bounty
.
[4]
Publications
edit
Freed slave
Ottobah Cugoano
publishes
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
.
The
Scots Musical Museum
begins publication.
Births
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7 January –
Patrick Nasmyth
, Scottish landscape painter (died 1831)
10 February –
William Bradley
, Britain's tallest ever man (died 1820)
17 February –
George Mogridge (Old Humphrey)
, miscellaneous writer and poet (died 1854)
10 March –
William Etty
, painter, especially of nudes (died 1849)
28 March –
Claudius Rich
, archaeologist and anthropologist (died 1821)
7 June –
William Conybeare
, geologist (died 1857)
28 June –
Harry Smith
, military commander (died 1860)
24 July –
William Ward
, cricketer (died 1849)
13 September –
John Adamson
, antiquary and expert on Portuguese (died 1855)
13 October –
William Brockedon
, painter (died 1854)
4 November –
Edmund Kean
, actor (died 1833)
21 November –
Bryan Procter
(Barry Cornwall), poet (died 1874)
22 November –
Copley Fielding
, watercolour landscape painter (died 1855)
16 December –
Mary Russell Mitford
, novelist and dramatist (died 1855)
Ignatius Bonomi
, architect (died 1870)
John Dobson
, architect (died 1865)
Harriet Gouldsmith
, landscape painter and etcher (died 1863)
Approximate date –
Ikey Solomon
, receiver of stolen goods (died 1850 in Australia)
Deaths
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1 April –
Floyer Sydenham
, classical scholar (born 1710)
2 April –
Thomas Gage
, General (born 1719)
10 May –
William Watson
, physician and scientist (born 1715)
25 July –
Arthur Devis
, portrait painter (born 1712)
3 November –
Robert Lowth
, bishop and grammarian (born 1710)
18 December
Francis William Drake
, British admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (born 1724)
Soame Jenyns
, English writer (born 1704)
See also
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1787 in Wales
References
edit
^
"History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK".
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
1 July
2023
.
^
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 9 September 2007
. 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; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 230–231.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.
^
Hewitt, Rachel
(2011) [2010].
Map of a Nation: a biography of the Ordnance Survey
. London: Granta. pp. 84–6.
ISBN
978-1-84708-254-1
.