1787 in Great Britain

none 1787 yes Events from the year 1787 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George III Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory)History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-pitt www.gov.uk 1 July 2023 en Events thumb|150px|right|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.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 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.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml BBC History British History Timeline 2007-09-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20070909012414/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml 9 September 2007 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. 31 May – the original Lord's Cricket Ground holds its first cricket match;Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 339–340 https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/339 Marylebone Cricket Club founded.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 230–231 0-7126-5616-2 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.Rachel Hewitt Rachel Hewitt Map of a Nation: a biography of the Ordnance Survey London Granta 2010 2011 978-1-84708-254-1 84-6 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 Bounty. Publications 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 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 – Sir Harry Smith, military commander (died 1860) 24 July – William Ward, cricketer (died 1849) 10 September – Justina Jeffreys, Jamaican-born Welsh gentlewoman (died 1869)Palmer Caroline 19 April 2024 JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman https://biography.wales/article/s14-JEFF-JUS-1787 Dictionary of Welsh Biography 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 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 1787 in Wales References 1787 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1787 by country Category:1787 in Europe Category:1780s in Great Britain