Historical Events In 1787

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

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

May 17   On this day in history 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   On this day in history constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding  

May 25   Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old  

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   Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces in the year 1787.  

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   French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax on this day in history.  

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

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   On this day in history alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90  

Aug 02   Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc on this day in history.  

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   Alexander Aliabiev, composer in the year 1787.  

Aug 17   Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups in the year 1787.  

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

Aug 24   Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526 in the year 1787.  

Sep 01   John Bake, classical composer on this day in history.  

Sep 10   In the year 1787 john Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863  

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

Sep 13   In the year 1787 prussian army moves into Netherlands  

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

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Jan 05   In the year 1787 birth of john Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)  

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

Jan 13   John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854) was born on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1787.  

Mar 06   In the year 1787 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   In the year 1787 arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44  

Feb 12   Ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

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

Mar 02   In the year 1787 jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73  

Mar 11   On this day in history maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45  

Apr 01   Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710) died on this day in history.  

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

May 10   William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715) died in the year 1787.