The First Fleet is the name given to the eleven ships that sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787 ( consisting of 10 civil officers, 212 Marines, including officers, additional 28 wives and 17 children of the marines, 81 free persons, 504 male convicts and 192 female convicts ; total free persons: 348, prisoners: 696 ; total 1044 ), to establish the first European colony in Australia, in the region which Captain Cook had named New South Wales.

Thomas Carlyle attributed the origin of the term to Edmund Burke, who used it in a parliamentary debate in 1787 on the opening up of Press reporting of the House of Commons of Great Britain.

The Western powers — such as Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and Kingdom of Prussia — were alarmed by a string of Russian victories in the Russo – Turkish War ( 1787 – 1792 ) and lobbied for the war in the north, which would have diverted the attention of Catherine II of Russia from the Southern theatre.

In 1787 he was created Marquess Townshend in the Peerage of Great Britain.

A few of the 1787 delegates were wealthy, but many of the country's top wealth-holders were Loyalists who went to Britain.

He moved away to study at the University of Cambridge in 1787, and then travelled in Britain and Europe for 12 years.

He was Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia from 1783 to 1788, appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland and a member of the Privy Council ( Great Britain & Ireland ) in 1787, serving in the former position until 1789.

Margaret Dawson ( c1770-1816 ) was a convict on the First Fleet sent from Britain to New South Wales in 1787.

The Constitutional Convention ( also known as the Philadelphia Convention, the Federal Convention, or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia ) took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain.

The Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, which established the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain in 1787, campaigned for an end to the Transatlantic slave trade from Western Africa to the New World, which Britain dominated by then.

Through most of 1787 operations on both sides had been lackadaisical ; ;

They had three children: Fanny ( 1784 ), Hannibal ( 1786 ), and Ethan Junior ( 1787 ).

Allen and his family moved to Burlington in 1787, which was no longer a small frontier settlement but a small town, and much more to Allen's liking than the larger community that Bennington had become.

Throughout his life he had enjoyed excessive living, and his drinking probably hastened his death, which occurred in London on 20 June 1787.

He had instructions to investigate any colonies the British may have established and learned of the intention to settle Botany Bay and Norfolk Island from despatches sent to him from Paris through St. Petersburg and by land across Siberia to Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka, where he received them on 26 September 1787, just four days before his departure from that port.

Until his elevation to consul, López, born in 1787, had lived in relative obscurity.

In 1795 governor Robert Brooke ( 1787 – 1801 ) was alerted that the French had overrun the Netherlands, forcing the Dutch to become their allies.

Political parties had not been anticipated when the Constitution was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788, even though both Hamilton and Madison played major roles.

When William V arrived in Schoonhoven in 1787, after the authority of the stadholders had been restored, the church bells are said to have played the Wilhelmus continuously.

However the area had been the subject of dispute between the Indian Nations and the United States since the passage of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787.

Marie Antoinette earned the nickname of " Madame Déficit " in the summer of 1787 as a result of the public perception that she had singlehandedly ruined the finances of the nation.

This changed the new republic from an Anglo-Prussian to a French client state ; henceforth it would conduct a foreign and military policy dictated by France, where its predecessor had followed British dictates since 1787 ( an offensive and defensive alliance of the two republics was part of the treaty ), while its economic policies would in effect also be made subservient to the interests of France.

They resumed where they had left off after the 1787 purge of Patriot regents, taking over the offices of the Orangist regents that were now purged in their turn.

In the Orangist revolution of 1747 this office had been revamped to " Stadhouder-generaal " and made hereditary, and after the Prussian intervention of 1787 the powers of the Stadtholder had become dictatorial.

This venerable title ( clearly chosen for sentimental reasons ) had little connection with the former office of the States of Holland ; as a matter of fact, the new office more resembled that of Stadtholder, though even William V, after 1787, had not possessed the powers Schimmelpenninck was to wield.

The first dedicated forestry school was established by Georg Ludwig Hartig at Hungen in the Wetterau, Hesse, in 1787, though forestry had been taught earlier in central Europe, including at the University of Giessen, in Hesse-Darmstadt.

In 1787 La Perouse decided not to risk it and turned south even though locals had told him that Sakhalin was an island.

In 1787, French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville, sent to Mexico to steal the cochineal insect valued for its scarlet dye, reported the strangely beautiful flowers he had seen growing in a garden in Oaxaca.

" Following Leopold's death in 1787, Nannerl had to do without this support, and Halliwell asserts that " there is every reason to believe that Leopold's death was devastating " to her.

Charles Vallancey, for example, published a work in 1772 attempting to prove that the Irish language was Phoenician, while John Pinkerton's A Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths ( 1787 ) attempted to show that the Scots were Scythians who had originated in Central Asia.

The Pinkertons started to work on the project from January 1787, even though the contracts were not signed until May.

Design rights started in the United Kingdom in 1787 with the Designing and Printing of Linen Act and have expanded from there.

Alfred Candidus Ferdinand, Prince of Windisch-Grätz () ( 11 May 1787, Brussels – 21 March 1862, Vienna ) was from a Bohemian noble family originally from Styria and started service in the Habsburg imperial army in 1804.

Yet another war with Russia and Austria started in 1787 ; it ended by Austria with the 1791 Treaty of Sistova, and with the 1792 Treaty of Jassy with Russia.

When Burnett was visiting the King's Court in London in 1787, part of the ceiling of the courtroom started to collapse.

The botanical garden at Sibpur in Calcutta was started in 1787 by Col. Robert Kyd ( 1746 – 1793 ).

In May 1787, Lord acquired seven acres ( 28, 000 m² ) off Dorset Square and started his first ground.

He was born in Jamestown, New York to Joseph Waite ( 1787 – 1855 ) and Olive Davis Waite ( 1786 – 1851 ), and served in the state legislatures of Wisconsin in 1857, and Kansas in 1879, before eventually moving to Colorado, where he started the local newspaper in Aspen, Colorado and was secretary in the local assembly of the Knights of Labor.

Leaving the management of his economic entities to his cousin, he developed a strong interest in sciences and started to meet with Baltazar Hacquet, who taught anatomy in Ljubljana from 1773 to 1787, and several Slovene intellectuals of the time.

Organized colonization of Temerin by Hungarians started in 1782 and the migration of Germans started in 1787.

" The school started after vintage in 1787 ".

It retains the elements of several elegant mansions from circa 1750 as Hull merchants started to build large houses ( such as Ferriby House ) with cottages for workers ( such as Moss & Honeysuckle cottages in 1787, which still stand today ).