May 13 A fleet of eleven ships left Britain with two years provision and a cargo of 759 unwilling convicts, their guards,and ships crew numbering - 1530 people in all. They were to colonise a new land. Australia

May 13 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay

May 25 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding

May 17 English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes

May 14 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution

May 10 Parliament impeaches Warren Hastings

May 24 The Constitutional Convention is convened after a quorum of delegates attends in Philadelphia

May 29 "Virginia Plan" proposed

Jan 11 Titania &Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel

Jan 25 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Captain Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield MA

Jan 28 Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes

Jan 11 William Herschel discovers that the planet Uranus has moons

Feb 04 The first Anglican bishops of New York &Pennsylvania consecrated in London

Feb 04 Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails

Feb 18 Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor

Apr 12 Philadelphia's Free African Society forms

Nov 21 Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar

Sep 17 The Constitution of the United States of America is signed

Sep 27 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification

Sep 17 US constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention

Sep 28 Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval

Jun 12 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old

Dec 07 Delaware becomes first state to ratify constitution

Dec 18 New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution

Dec 01 The first lighthouse, built at Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh, by Thomas Smith and Robert Stevenson, lit.

Aug 19 W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn

Aug 22 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton

Aug 06 Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate

Aug 17 Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups

Oct 17 Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities

Oct 29 The opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)

Oct 27 Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers

Jul 13 Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)

Jul 13 Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop

Jul 02 de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered

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