Rulers:
• Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796)
Events:
• Musée des Beaux-Arts established in Dijon, France.
Deaths:
• Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Music:
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Don Giovanni (1787)
• Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825): Tarare (1787)
Art:
• Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Amore e Psiche che si abbracciano (1787-93)
• David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825): La mort de Socrate (1787)
• David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825): La mort de Socrate (after 1787)
• Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): A Woodman Seated on a Bundle of Faggots (1787)
• Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Cottage Children (1787)
• Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga (1787-88)
• Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): El columpio (1787)
• Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): Niño montando un carnero (1786-87)
• Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793): Regata sul Canal Grande (1780-93)
• Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792): Portrait of Lord Donounghmore (1780-90)
• Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792): The Infant Hercules (c.1785-89)