1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1887th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 887th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1887, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1887 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1887
MDCCCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita2640
Armenian calendar1336
ԹՎ ՌՅԼԶ
Assyrian calendar6637
Baháʼí calendar43–44
Balinese saka calendar1808–1809
Bengali calendar1294
Berber calendar2837
British Regnal year50 Vict. 1 – 51 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2431
Burmese calendar1249
Byzantine calendar7395–7396
Chinese calendar丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
4584 or 4377
    — to —
丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
4585 or 4378
Coptic calendar1603–1604
Discordian calendar3053
Ethiopian calendar1879–1880
Hebrew calendar5647–5648
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1943–1944
 - Shaka Samvat1808–1809
 - Kali Yuga4987–4988
Holocene calendar11887
Igbo calendar887–888
Iranian calendar1265–1266
Islamic calendar1304–1305
Japanese calendarMeiji 20
(明治20年)
Javanese calendar1816–1817
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4220
Minguo calendar25 before ROC
民前25年
Nanakshahi calendar419
Thai solar calendar2429–2430
Tibetan calendar阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
2013 or 1632 or 860
    — to —
阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
2014 or 1633 or 861

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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June 23: Banff National Park

July–September

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July 26: Esperanto

October–December

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Births

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January–February

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Miklós Kállay
 
Arthur Rubinstein
 
Edelmiro Julián Farrell
 
Joseph Bech
 
Chico Marx

March–April

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Julian Huxley
 
Marc Chagall
 
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
 
Erwin Schrödinger
 
Giovanni Gronchi

May–June

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July–August

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September–October

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Avery Brundage
 
Le Corbusier
 
Chiang Kai-shek

November–December

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Bernard Montgomery
 
Boris Karloff
 
Erich von Manstein

Deaths

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January–June

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July–December

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Gustav Kirchhoff

Date unknown

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