Historical Events In 1787

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

May 14   In the year 1787 delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution  

May 17   English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes in the year 1787.  

May 24   The Constitutional Convention is convened after a quorum of delegates attends in Philadelphia on this day in history.  

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

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

May 28   On this day in history 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 in the year 1787.  

Jun 20   Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63 in the year 1787.  

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

Jun 28   In the year 1787 henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces  

Jul 02   In the year 1787 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   In the year 1787 french government proclaims end to stamp/land tax  

Jul 13   On this day in history congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)  

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

Jul 15   On this day in history parliament of Paris banished to Troyes  

Aug 01   Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 on this day in history.  

Aug 02   Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc in the year 1787.  

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

Aug 10   In the year 1787 mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"  

Aug 13   Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies on this day in history.  

Aug 15   Alexander Aliabiev, composer in the year 1787.  

Aug 17   Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups on this day in history.  

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

Aug 22   In the year 1787 john Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton  

Aug 24   In the year 1787 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   On this day in history john Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863  

Sep 12   In the year 1787 black Masons form 1st lodge  

Sep 13   On this day in history prussian army moves into Netherlands  

Sep 15   In the year 1787 -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   Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 13   On this day in history birth of john Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)  

Feb 13   In the year 1787 birth of james P Carrell, composer  

Feb 16   Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer was born in the year 1787.  

Feb 23   On this day in history birth of emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame)  

Mar 06   On this day in history birth of joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)  

Mar 08   On this day in history birth of karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery  

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

Feb 12   On this day in history ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75  

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

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.