1887

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1850s  1860s  1870s  – 1880s –  1890s  1900s  1910s
Years:	1884 1885 1886 – 1887 – 1888 1889 1890

1887 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1887 MDCCCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2640
Armenian calendar	1336 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	6637
Bahá'í calendar	43–44
Balinese saka calendar	1808–1809
Bengali calendar	1294
Berber calendar	2837
British Regnal year	50 Vict. 1 – 51 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2431
Burmese calendar	1249
Byzantine calendar	7395–7396
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4583 or 4523     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4584 or 4524
Coptic calendar	1603–1604
Discordian calendar	3053
Ethiopian calendar	1879–1880
Hebrew calendar	5647–5648
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1943–1944
- Shaka Samvat	1808–1809
- Kali Yuga	4987–4988
Holocene calendar	11887
Igbo calendar	887–888
Iranian calendar	1265–1266
Islamic calendar	1304–1305
Japanese calendar	Meiji 20 (明治２０年)
Javanese calendar	1816–1817
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4220
Minguo calendar	25 before ROC 民前25年
Nanakshahi calendar	419
Thai solar calendar	2429–2430
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

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.

Events

• July 26 – L. L. Zamenhof published Esperanto

Births

• March 22 – Chico Marx
• December 25 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (d. 1979)