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1787| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1787 | France [physics] | French physicist Jacques-Alexandre Charles demonstrates that different gases expand by the same amount for the same increase in temperature. | | 1787 | France [chemistry] | French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, with collaborators, publishes Méthode de nomenclature chimie/Method of Chemical Nomenclature, a system for naming chemicals based on scientific principles. | | 1787 | UK [cricket] | The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is founded by Thomas Lord and members of the White Conduit Club, at Thomas Lord's new private ground at Dorset Square, Marylebone, London, England. | | January 1787 | Austrian Netherlands [political events] | The Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II introduces a series of radical political reforms in the Austrian Netherlands, provoking riots in Louvain and Brussels. | | 16 March 1787 | Germany [births and deaths] | Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist who discovered Ohm's law, which relates electric current to voltage, born in Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany (–1854). | | 25 May - 17 September 1787 | America [legislation] | The Constitutional Convention opens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with participants including George Washington (president), Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and Edmund Randolph. The new constitution establishes a bicameral legislature whose power is counterbalanced by an executive officer, an independent judiciary, and the authority of individual states. | | 10 August 1787 | Ottoman Empire, Russia [Russian–Ottoman Wars (1768–1878)] | The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia, in an attempt to regain the Crimea. |
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