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

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 ).

Visiting in 1787, the geologist James Hutton found his first example of an unconformity there and this spot is one of the most famous places in the study of geology.

In 1787, Alexander Hamilton wrote: "... The science of politics like most other sciences has received great improvement.

Shaka kaSenzangakhona ( c. 1787 – c. 22 September 1828 ), also known as Shaka Zulu (), was the most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom.

* September 22 – Shaka, the most influential leader of the Zulu Empire ( b. 1787 )

According to Captain Phillip's amended Commission, dated 25 April 1787, the colony included all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean within the latitudes of 10 ° 37 ' S and 43 ° 39 ' S which included most of New Zealand except for the southern half of the South Island.

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.

La Perouse charted most of the southwestern coast of Sakhalin ( or " Tchoka ", as he heard natives call it ) in 1787

It was not until the expedition of Jean-François de La Pérouse ( 1787 ), who charted most of the Strait of Tartary, but was not able to pass through its northern " bottleneck " due to contrary winds, that the island on European maps assumed a form similar to what is familiar to modern readers.

Accordingly, when La Pérouse charted most of the strait between Sakhalin and the mainland " Chinese Tartary " in 1787, the body of water received the name of the Strait ( or Channel, or Gulf ) of Tartary.

There are examples among United States historical documents: the end ( but not the beginning ) of the Declaration of Independence ( 1776 ) and all of the Constitution ( 1787 ) show nearly all nouns capitalized ; the Bill of Rights ( 1789 ) capitalizes a few common nouns but not most of them ; and the Thirteenth Constitutional Amendment ( 1865 ) only capitalizes proper nouns.

Burns wrote of himself in 1787, " The appellation of a Scotch Bard, is by far my highest pride ; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

In the period spent abroad, from 13 March 1787 until the end of 1789, Piazzi became acquainted with the major French and English astronomers of his time and was able to have the famous altazimuthal circle made by Jesse Ramsden, one of the most skilled instrument-makers of the 18th century.

During his short time at Turku Dahl published his most important work: Observationes botanicae circa systema vegetabilium divi a Linne Gottingae 1784 editum, quibus accedit justae in manes Linneanos pietatis specimen ( Kopenhagen, 1787 ).

The town is most well known as being home to Daniel Shays, leader of Shays ' Rebellion, an uprising to stop declining economic conditions in Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787.

Scattered resistance continued until June 1787, with the single most significant action being an incident in Sheffield in late February, where 30 rebels were wounded ( one mortally ) in a skirmish with government troops.

The events of the rebellion, most of which occurred after the Philadelphia Convention had been called but before it began in May 1787, are widely seen to have affected the debates on the shape of the new government.

The settlers encountered some struggles over the years, most notably in the winter of 1787.

Ohio petitions to gain statehood, and the northern boundary is set by the Ohio constitution as the Ordinance Line of 1787 with one proviso: If the line intersected Lake Erie to the east of the mouth of the Maumee River, then " with the assent of Congress of the United States, the northern boundary of this State shall be established by, and extended to a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami Bay.

This was also practiced in Danish before the spelling reform of 1948, and in English during the 18th century ( as in Gulliver's Travels, and most of the original 1787 United States Constitution ).

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.

The most famous constituent assembly in U. S. history was the Federal constitutional convention that drafted the still-current Federal Constitution in 1787.

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.

The political situation in 1787 began to worsen when the Parlement was exiled, and culminated on 11 November, when the king tried to use a lit de justice to force through legislation.

At the redistribution of dioceses ( 1787 to 1791 ) not all the parishes in Carniola were included in the Diocese of Ljubljana, but this was accomplished in 1833, by taking two deaneries from the Diocese of Trieste, one from Gorizia, and one parish from the Diocese of Lavant, so as to include all the territory within the political boundaries of the crownland.

In 1787 he issued an important political tract, Zur Darstellung des Fürstenbundes, and also Briefe zweier Domherren.

However, the United States Constitution has always been silent on the issue of political parties ; at the time it was signed in 1787, there were no parties in the nation.

Composed of the old regime's social and political elite, however, the assembly of notables balked at the deficit presented to them when they met at Versailles in February 1787, and despite Calonne's plan for reform and his backing from the king, they suspected that the controller-general was in some way responsible for the enormous financial strains.

The Athenaid, an epic in thirty books, was published in 1787, and his diary, entitled Memoirs of a distinguished literary and political Character from 1742 to 1757, appeared in 1813.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 defined the political protocols by which American states south of the lakes would enter the union as political equals with the original thirteen colonies.

* September 20-John McDonald, businessman and political figure ( born 1787 )

The Ordinance of 1785 put the 1784 resolution in operation by providing a mechanism for selling and settling the land, while the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 addressed political needs.

Testifying to his growing political influence, the South Carolina legislature asked Butler to represent the state at the Constitutional Convention that met in Philadelphia in 1787.

Ramón Freire Serrano ( November 29, 1787 – December 9, 1851 ) was a Chilean political figure.

Due to a political crisis in 1787, he had to leave Friesland and went to Germany.

He is also well known as the presumed author of political essays published in 1787 and 1788 under the pseudonyms " Brutus " and " Sydney ".

Barnard Elliot Bee, Sr. ( 1787 – 1853 ) was an early settler and political leader in the Republic of Texas.

His Remarks upon the Life of Jan Zamoyski ( Uwagi nad życiem Jana Zamoyskiego, 1787 ), published anonymously on the eve of the Great Sejm, transformed the little known tutor into one of the chief political thinkers of the late 18th century Commonwealth.

Graham was appointed Rector of the University of Glasgow, holding the position from 1785 to 1787, in which year he instituted the Gartmore Gold Medal ( awarded biennially ) for the best discourse by a student on political liberty.

Poland was in the midst of great political turmoil at the time of Hofbauer's arrival in 1787.

* Barnard Elliott Bee, Sr. ( 1787 – 1853 ), early settler and political leader in the Republic of Texas

Thomas Hodgskin ( b. 12 December 1787, Chatham, Kent ; d. 21 August 1869, Feltham, Middlesex ) was an English socialist writer on political economy, critic of capitalism, free-market anarchist and defender of free trade and early trade unions.

States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China is a 1979 book by political scientist and sociologist Theda Skocpol, published by Cambridge University Press and explaining the causes of revolutions through the structural functionalism sociological paradigm comparative historical analysis of the French Revolution of 1787 through the early 19th century French Revolution, the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the 1930s Russian Revolution and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 through the 1960s Cultural Revolution.

* Robert Hamilton ( merchant ) ( 1787 – 1856 ), political figure in Upper Canada

These reforms, coupled with Sadanobu's continued political maneuvering, brought him fame, and he was named chief councilor of the Shogunate in the summer of 1787, and regent to the 11th shogun Tokugawa Ienari early the following year.