1787 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1787 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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[edit] Events
- 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.
[edit] Unknown dates
- Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp found the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.
[edit] Births
- 10 February - William Bradley, Britain's tallest ever man (d. 1820)
- 17 March - Edmund Kean, actor (d. 1833)
[edit] Deaths
- 1 April - Floyer Sydenham, classical scholar (b. 1710)
- 2 April - Thomas Gage, Bgeneral (b. 1719)
- 10 May - William Watson, physician and scientist (b. 1715)
- 3 November - Robert Lowth, bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
- 18 December - Francis William Drake, British admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1724)
- 18 December - Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)
[edit] References
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
