1787 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1787 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

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.

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)

^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ ^a ^b "BBC History British History Timeline". 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.