Historical Events In 1787

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

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

May 17   English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes on this day in history.  

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   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   On this day in history "Virginia Plan" proposed  

Jun 12   In the year 1787 law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old  

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

Jun 20   Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States on this day in history.  

Jun 28   On this day in history 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   Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Jul 06   French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax on this day in history.  

Jul 13   In the year 1787 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   In the year 1787 alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90  

Aug 02   On this day in history horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc  

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

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

Aug 13   Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies in the year 1787.  

Aug 15   Alexander Aliabiev, composer on this day in history.  

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

Aug 19   On this day in history 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   On this day in history james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)  

Aug 24   In the year 1787 wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526  

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

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

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   -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam on this day in history.  

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

Jan 08   Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 13   In the year 1787 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   On this day in history 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   In the year 1787 birth of karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery  

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   On this day in history death of ruđer Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)  

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   In the year 1787 death of floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710)  

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)