Sir Charles Wilkins translated the Bhagavadgita into English in 1785, deciphered a number of Sanskrit inscriptions published a translation of Hitopadesa ( 1787 ) and a Grammar of the Sanskrit Language.

After that, censuses followed somewhat regularly in 1787, 1801, and 1834, and between 1840 and 1860, the censuses were taken every five years, and then every ten years until 1890.

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.

Alexander Montgomerie's The Cherrie and the Slae in 1700, shortly over a decade later an edition of poems by Sir David Lindsay, nine printings of Allan Ramsay's The Gentle shepherd between 1743 and 1793, and an edition of Robert Burns ' poetry in 1787, the same year as the Edinburgh edition, followed by reprints in 1789, 1793 and 1800.

The American Revolution then popularized this principle, followed by the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which developed institutions to manage popular will.

A three-volume version followed in 1787.

After completing his training in the law at the University of Turin in 1774, he followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a Senator in 1787.

It was followed by Turk and no Turk ( 1785 ), a musical comedy ; Inkle and Yarico ( 1787 ), an opera ; Ways and Means ( 1788 ); The Iron Chest ( 1796 ), taken from William Godwin's Adventures of Caleb Williams ; The Poor Gentleman ( 1802 ); John Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside ( 1803 ), his most successful piece ; The Heir at Law ( 1808 ), which enriched the stage with one immortal character, " Dr Pangloss " ( borrowed of course from Voltaire's Candide ), and numerous other pieces, many of them adapted from the French.

Born in Paris as the son of a stationer, he became a bookseller's clerk, and first attracted attention with the first part of his novel Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas ( Paris, 1787 ); it was followed in 1788 by Six semaines de la vie du chevalier de Faublas and in 1790 by La Fin des amours du chevalier de Faublas.

The other states with claims in the Northwest eventually followed Virginia's example, and in 1787, the Continental Congress enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which created the Northwest Territory.

* An Account of the Mode professed to be followed in determining the Relative Situations of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris ( 1787 )

After his death, the Honourable Henry Bouverie lived in the house until 1787 and was followed by Sir Stephen Lushington until 1807, when George Canning, the celebrated Statesman, acquired the property.

He soon returned, however, to his native village, and followed for some time the profession of an advocate ; but in 1787 he succeeded his uncle Antoine David as printer to the parlement.

His translation of the Gita was itself soon translated into French ( 1787 ) and German ( 1802 ).

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

In 1787 a bishop of Nova Scotia was appointed with a jurisdiction over all of British North America ; in time several more colleagues were appointed to other cities in present-day Canada.

In Florence on 8 September 1787 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 18 October 1787 ( in person ), Anton married a second time with the Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria ( Maria Theresia Josephe Charlotte Johanna ), daughter of the Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany, later Emperor Leopold II.

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was originally intended to be performed in honor of Anton and his wife for a visit to Prague on 14 October 1787, as they traveled between Dresden and Vienna, and librettos were printed with dedication to them.

# On 6 January 1808, he married again to another first cousin, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este ( 14 December 1787 – 7 April 1816 ) with no issue.

Dissatisfied with the weaknesses of Articles of Confederation, in 1787 Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution.

He entered Harvard College and was graduated in 1787 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Phi Beta Kappa.

He apprenticed as an attorney with Theophilus Parsons in Newburyport, Massachusetts, from 1787 to 1789.

Simcoe wrote a book on his experiences with the Rangers, titled A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers from the end of the year 1777 to the conclusion of the late American War, which was published in 1787.

* 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts ( the " First Fleet ") to establish a penal colony in Australia.

When the Constitutional Convention convened in May 1787, the 12 state delegations in attendance ( Rhode Island was absent ) brought with them an accumulated experience over a diverse set of institutional arrangements between legislative and executive branches from within their respective state governments.

Earlier, there was a strong romantic nationalist element mixed with Enlightenment rationalism in the rhetoric used in British North America, in the colonists ' Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution of 1787, as well as the rhetoric in the wave of revolts, inspired by new senses of localized identities, which swept the American colonies of Spain, one after the other, from 1811.

An order by governor Daniel Corneille ( 1782 – 1787 ) banning garrison troops and sailors from punch-taverns, only allowing them to drink at army canteens, led to a mutiny over Christmas 1787 when some 200 troops skirmished with loyal troops over a three day period.

Involved with writing the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of 1787.

Sarah Armitage McKean with their daughter Maria Louisa ( Charles Willson Peale, 1787 )

Withering wrote two more editions of this work in 1787 and 1792, in collaboration with fellow Lunar Society member Jonathan Stokes, and after his death his son ( also William ) published four more.

He is thought to have performed Mozart's operas while playing in the court orchestra at Bonn, and he traveled to Vienna in 1787 hoping to study with the older composer.

" The Heresthetics of Constitution-Making: The Presidency in 1787, with Comments on Determinism and Rational Choice.

In 1889, for his final examination at the end of his course of study, he submitted his opera Gina, with a libretto by Enrico Golisciani which was adapted from the old French play Catherine, ou La Croix d ' or by Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville ( 1787 — 1865 ).

# After years of frustration, an agreement was reached in 1787 to organize a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia with the mission of writing and proposing a number of amendments to the Articles of Confederation in order to improve the form of government.

Started in 1783 and finished in 1787, to designs of the Queen's favoured architect, Richard Mique, the hamlet was complete with farmhouse, dairy, and mill.

The queen attempted to fight back with her own propaganda that portrayed her as a caring mother, most notably with the portrait of her and her children done by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, which premiered at the Royal Académie Salon de Paris in August 1787.

An English translation of certain portions of the Palingénésie philosophique was published in 1787, under the title Philosophical and Critical Inquiries concerning Christianity.

Most of the fables in Hecatomythium were later translated in the second half of Roger L ' Estrange's Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists ( 1692 ); some also appeared among the 102 in H. Clarke's Latin reader, Select fables of Aesop: with an English translation ( 1787 ), of which there were both English and American editions.

Reputed portrait of Philip Miller from the French translation of The Gardener's Dictionary 1787

Among his translated works the Upanisad ( 1787 ) which was based on Dara Shiko's Persian translation happens to stand out.

Christian of Stolberg was the sole author of Gedichte aus dem Griechischen ( 1782 ), a translation of the works of Sophocles ( 1787 ) Die weisse Frau ( 1814 ) and of a poem in seven ballads, which last attained considerable popularity.

An English translation of a portion of this work ( Despotism Unveiled: or the Memoirs of Latude, Detained for Thirty-five Years in the Various Prisons of the State ) was published in 1787.

A Dublin translation of 1787 does not include notes from the original nor posthumous notes added to the 1773 French edition.

This translation was printed in 1787 and 1788.