What is 1787?
{{Year nav|1787}} {{Year in various calendars|1787}} {{Year article header|1787}} == Events == * [[May 13]] – Captain [[Arthur Phillip]] leaves [[Portsmouth]], [[England]] with the [[First Fleet]], 11 ships full of convicts to establish a [[penal colony]] in [[Australia]]. * [[August 16]] – [[Lieutenant]] [[William Bligh]] takes command of the [[Mutiny on the Bounty|HMVA Bounty]]. * [[December 23]] – The [[Mutiny on the Bounty|HMVA Bounty]] is sent to [[Tahiti]] to collect [[breadfruit plant]]s. ;Date unknown * The [[Pennsylvania Prison Society]] is started. == Births == * [[March 16]] – [[Georg Ohm]], [[Germany|German]] [[physicist]] * [[December 10]] – [[Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet]], founder of the [[American School for the Deaf]] == Deaths == * [[May 28]] – [[Leopold Mozart]], [[composer]] * [[June 20]] – [[Karl Friedrich Abel]], German [[Baroque]] composer [[Category:1787| ]]