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

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

[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.^[2]
• 22 May - Creation of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.^[2]
• 31 May - The original Lord's Cricket Ground holds its first cricket match.^[3]
• 23 December - Captain William Bligh sets sail for Tahiti on the Bounty.^[3]

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• Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp found the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.
• Marylebone Cricket Club founded.^[4]

[edit] Births

• 10 February - William Bradley, Britain's tallest ever man (died 1820)
• 17 March - Edmund Kean, actor (died 1833)
• 16 December - Mary Russell Mitford, novelist and dramatist (died 1855)

[edit] Deaths

• 1 April - Floyer Sydenham, classical scholar (born 1710)
• 2 April - Thomas Gage, Bgeneral (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)

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