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   English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes on this day in history.  

May 24   On this day in history the Constitutional Convention is convened after a quorum of delegates attends in Philadelphia  

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

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

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

May 29   "Virginia Plan" proposed on this day in history.  

Jun 12   In the year 1787 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   Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States on this day in history.  

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

Jul 02   de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered in the year 1787.  

Jul 04   Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1787 parliament of Paris banished to Troyes  

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

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

Aug 15   In the year 1787 alexander Aliabiev, composer  

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

Aug 19   W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn in the year 1787.  

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

Sep 01   In the year 1787 john Bake, classical composer  

Sep 10   John Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863 in the year 1787.  

Sep 12   Black Masons form 1st lodge in the year 1787.  

Sep 13   Prussian army moves into Netherlands on this day in history.  

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

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Jan 05   John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage) was born in the year 1787.  

Jan 08   In the year 1787 birth of johann Ludwig Bohner, composer  

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

Feb 13   On this day in history birth of james P Carrell, composer  

Feb 16   In the year 1787 birth of andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer  

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

Mar 06   Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum) was born in the year 1787.  

Mar 08   Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery was born on this day in history.  

Jan 01   In the year 1787 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 on this day in history.  

Mar 02   On this day in history jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73  

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

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

Apr 02   In the year 1787 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)