* 1696 – Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian bishop and saint ( d. 1787 )

* November 27 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and grammarian ( d. 1787 )

Became first Anglican Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island | bishop of Nova Scotia in 1787 and first bishop of the Church of England outside of the British Isles in the British Empire

St Paul's became the first Anglican cathedral in all of North America when Charles Inglis was appointed bishop in 1787.

He became the first bishop of the diocese of Nova Scotia on 12 August 1787 and the first Church of England bishop of a diocese outside of the United Kingdom and in the British Empire.

Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ( September 27, 1696 – August 1, 1787 ) was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, scholastic philosopher and theologian, and founder of the Redemptorists, an influential religious congregation.

Olof Wallqvist ( 1755, Edsberg, Närke – April 30, 1800 ), Swedish statesman and ecclesiastic, was ordained in 1776, became Doctor of Philosophy in 1779, court preacher to Queen Louisa Ulrica in 1780, and bishop of Växjö in 1787.

On his arrival in London in May 1838, Howe discussed the enterprise with fellow Nova Scotian Samuel Cunard ( 1787 – 1865 ), a shipowner who was also visiting London on business.

Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet ( 21 November 1787 – 28 April 1865 ) was a British shipping magnate, born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line.

The American Revolutionary War disrupted mail to New York, and also showed the weakness in not having an all-British route to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in 1787 a complicated route was set up through Riviere du Loup, Fredericton, Digby, and Annapolis.

His unit was posted to Nova Scotia in 1786 and he assumed command of the battalion in 1787.

After ordination, he served in New York at the down-town Trinity Church, and later had the distinction of being consecrated at Lambeth Palace as the first Bishop of Nova Scotia, and first Bishop in the British Empire overseas ( 1787 ).

On August 12, 1787, Charles Inglis was consecrated Bishop of Nova Scotia with jurisdiction over all the British possessions in North America.

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

In 1787, he was admitted to the bar, and moved to Jonesborough, in what was then the Western District of North Carolina.

After these were completed, other two years were employed in finishing the monument, and it was finally opened to public inspection in 1787.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

War was once more declared against Russia in 1787 and in the following year the Russians were joined by Austria.

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.

Mozart complained bitterly of the intrigues surrounding this incident in a letter to his friend Gottfried von Jacquin that was written in stages between 15 October and 25 October 1787.

The Northwest Ordinance, which was approved by the Congress of the Confederation in 1787, guaranteed " judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.

Its first Lieutenant-Governor was Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres ( 1784 – 1787 ) and his successor was William Macarmick ( 1787 ).

The University now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University.

Delaware was one of the 13 colonies participating in the American Revolution and on December 7, 1787, became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby becoming known as The First State.

The next year he was transferred to nearby York Factory, and over the next few years spent time as a clerk at Cumberland House and South Branch House before arriving at Manchester House in 1787.

In 1787, David did not become the Director of the French Academy in Rome, which was a position he wanted dearly.

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.

In 1787 he attended the United States Constitutional Convention and was one of the delegates voting against the new constitution ( joining George Mason and Edmund Randolph in not signing it ).

As part of the fledgling nation's government, he was treasurer of the Continental Loan Office in 1778 ; appointed judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 and reappointed in 1780 and 1787 ; and helped ratify the Constitution during the constitutional convention in 1787.

In 1787, William Bligh was appointed Captain of the HMS Bounty, and was instructed to proceed to the South Pacific for this task.

Bligh was appointed Commanding Lieutenant of Bounty on 16 August 1787, at the age of 32, after a career that included a tour as sailing master of James Cook's HMS Resolution during Cook's third and final voyage ( 1776 – 1779 ).

The King appointed Lafayette to the body, in the comte d ' Artois ' division, which met on 22 February 1787.

Nordin was appointed a member of an ecclesiastical commission for reforming the church in 1787, in which capacity he was virtually minister of public worship.

In 1787 he was appointed a professor of philosophy, and then of history, at Göttingen, and he afterwards was chosen Aulic Councillor, privy councillor, etc., the usual rewards of successful German scholars.

From Madrid he was suddenly summoned to the governorship of Brittany, and in 1787 was appointed by the king to succeed Vergennes in the ministry of foreign affairs.

In June 1783, he received his discharge from the army and settled in Gardiner, Maine, then part of Massachusetts, where he was made a brigadier general in the militia in 1787 and major general in 1789, He was appointed as the first U. S. marshal for the District of Maine under the new Constitution by President Washington.

In 1787, George Washington appointed Wythe, along with Alexander Hamilton and Charles Pinckney, to draw up the rules and procedures for the Constitutional Convention.

He was a popular character, and the friend of most of the notabilities of his day, whom he never offended by attempting political satire ; his easy circumstances and social position ( he was colonel of the West Suffolk Militia, and was appointed equerry to the Duke of York in 1787 ) allowed him leisure to practise his talents.

He was promoted to vice-admiral in 1787, and in July 1788, was appointed to the Board of Admiralty under John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, brother of the Prime Minister.

In November 1787, he was again appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, this time under Pitt, but his second tenure of this office was hardly as successful as the first.

In 1787 he was appointed principal counsel for Warren Hastings in the celebrated impeachment trial before the House of Lords, and the ability with which he conducted the defence was universally recognized.

In Philadelphia, he was appointed assistant superintendent of finance ( 1781 – 1785 ), and he was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

After his father's death in 1787, Dalhousie joined the British Army in July 1788 by purchasing a cornetcy in the 3rd Dragoons, and was later appointed to the captaincy of an independent company he himself had raised.

In 1787 he was appointed lecturer in chemistry to the Prussian Royal Artillery, and when the university was founded in 1810 he was selected to be the professor of chemistry.

He was appointed as a Rhode Island delegate to the Confederation Congress in 1787.

When the Commissioners appointed by Parliament to divide up the common and waste lands of Duffield Parish sat in 1787, they held their meetings at the King's Head.

Nesselrode's Germanic roots were emphasized by his education in a Berlin gymnasium, his father having been appointed ambassador to the Prussian court about 1787.

Once the President had appointed St. Clair to his new position, Cutler and Major Winthrop Sargent, the secretary of the Ohio Company, signed two new contracts with him on October 27, 1787.

Hans Henrik von Essen was appointed Colonel in 1787, Major General in 1795 and Field Marshal in 1811.

In 1787 he was appointed a member of the supreme treasury council by Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, but his health, impaired by close study and over-work in his new office, compelled his withdrawal to the country at Vico Equense.