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 in the year 1787.  

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

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

May 25   In the year 1787 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   On this day in history "Virginia Plan" proposed  

Jun 12   Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1787.  

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 on this day in history.  

Jul 04   Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71 in the year 1787.  

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

Jul 15   Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes on this day in history.  

Aug 01   On this day in history 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   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   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   John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

Sep 01   On this day in history john Bake, classical composer  

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   Prussian army moves into Netherlands on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1787 birth of johann Ludwig Bohner, composer  

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 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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1787.  

Feb 12   In the year 1787 ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75  

Feb 13   In the year 1787 death of ruđer Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)  

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

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   On this day in history death of william Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)