Historical Events In 1787

May 14   Delegates gather in Phila to draw up US constitution in the year 1787.  

May 14   Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution on this day in history.  

May 17   In the year 1787 english slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes  

May 24   In the year 1787 the Constitutional Convention is convened after a quorum of delegates attends in Philadelphia  

May 25   On this day in history constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding  

May 25   On this day in history constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding  

May 28   Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67 in the year 1787.  

May 29   In the year 1787 "Virginia Plan" proposed  

Jun 12   Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old on this day in history.  

Jun 20   On this day in history carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63  

Jun 20   In the year 1787 oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.  

Jun 28   On this day in history henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces  

Jul 02   On this day in history de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered  

Jul 04   In the year 1787 charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71  

Jul 06   French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax in the year 1787.  

Jul 13   Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery) on this day in history.  

Jul 13   In the year 1787 ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop  

Jul 15   In the year 1787 parliament of Paris banished to Troyes  

Aug 01   Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 in the year 1787.  

Aug 02   In the year 1787 horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc  

Aug 06   Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate on this day in history.  

Aug 10   On this day in history mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"  

Aug 13   In the year 1787 isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies  

Aug 15   On this day in history alexander Aliabiev, composer  

Aug 17   On this day in history jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups  

Aug 19   In the year 1787 w Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn  

Aug 22   John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton on this day in history.  

Aug 24   James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) in the year 1787.  

Aug 24   On this day in history wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526  

Sep 01   John Bake, classical composer in the year 1787.  

Sep 10   On this day in history john Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863  

Sep 12   On this day in history black Masons form 1st lodge  

Sep 13   Prussian army moves into Netherlands in the year 1787.  

Sep 15   On this day in history -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam  

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Jan 05   John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 08   On this day in history birth of johann Ludwig Bohner, composer  

Jan 13   John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854) was born in the year 1787.  

Feb 13   James P Carrell, composer was born in the year 1787.  

Feb 16   On this day in history birth of andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer  

Feb 23   Emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame) was born on this day in history.  

Mar 06   Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum) was born on this day in history.  

Mar 08   Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery was born in the year 1787.  

Jan 01   On this day in history arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44  

Feb 12   In the year 1787 ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75  

Feb 13   Ruđer Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711) died in the year 1787.  

Mar 02   Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73 in the year 1787.  

Mar 11   Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45 on this day in history.  

Apr 01   On this day in history death of floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710)  

Apr 02   On this day in history death of thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)  

May 10   On this day in history death of william Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)