1787

Events

 * January 12:
 * Richard Varick becomes Speaker of the New York State Assembly
 * February 20:
 * Thomas Pinckney becomes Governor of South Carolina
 * October 15:
 * Bushrod Washington becomes a Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
 * December 20:
 * Samuel Johnston becomes Governor of North Carolina

Births

 * February 9:
 * Henry Matson Waite - Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (d. 1869)