Historical Events In 1787

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

May 14   On this day in history delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution  

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

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

May 25   Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding in the year 1787.  

May 25   Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding in the year 1787.  

May 28   In the year 1787 johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67  

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   Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63 in the year 1787.  

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

Jun 28   Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history french government proclaims end to stamp/land tax  

Jul 13   Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery) in the year 1787.  

Jul 13   Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop on this day in history.  

Jul 15   Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes in the year 1787.  

Aug 01   In the year 1787 alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90  

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

Aug 06   On this day in history constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate  

Aug 10   Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik" in the year 1787.  

Aug 13   On this day in history 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 in the year 1787.  

Aug 24   On this day in history james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)  

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   John Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863 on this day in history.  

Sep 12   Black Masons form 1st lodge on this day in history.  

Sep 13   In the year 1787 prussian army moves into Netherlands  

Sep 15   -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam in the year 1787.  

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Jan 05   On this day in history birth of john Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)  

Jan 08   Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer was born in the year 1787.  

Jan 13   In the year 1787 birth of john Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)  

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

Feb 16   Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer was born on this day in history.  

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

Mar 06   In the year 1787 birth of joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)  

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

Jan 01   Arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44 on this day in history.  

Feb 12   Ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75 in the year 1787.  

Feb 13   Ruđer Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711) died on this day in history.  

Mar 02   Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

Mar 11   In the year 1787 maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45  

Apr 01   Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710) died in the year 1787.  

Apr 02   Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719) died in the year 1787.  

May 10   William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715) died on this day in history.