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| 1787 |
| | | French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier publishes a system for classifying and naming chemical substances | |
|  | Antoine and Marie Lavoisier in their laboratory
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1787 |
| | | The Continental Congress passes the Northwest Ordinance, a plan for the establishment of new states north and west of the Ohio river | |
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| 1787 |
| | | The French finance minister, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, is dismissed when his proposed reforms meet aristocratic opposition | |
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| 1787 |
| | | The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade is founded in London, with a strong Quaker influence | |
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| 1787 |
| | | The First Fleet (eleven ships carrying about 750 convicts) leaves Portsmouth for Australia | |
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| 1787 |
| | | A British ship lands a party of freed slaves as the first modern settlers in Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa | |
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| 1787 |
| | | Scottish engineer James Watt devises the governor, the first example of industrial automation | |
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| 1787 |
| | | Delegates meeting in Philadelphia agree a final draft for a US consitution, to be submitted to the states for ratification | |
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| 1787 |
| | | The Federalist Papers, in support of the Constitution and mainly written by Alexander Hamilton, begin appearing in New York | |
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| 1787 |
| | | Mozart's opera Don Giovanni has its premiere in Prague | |
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