Page 2: Historical Events In 1787

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

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 on this day in history.   

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

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   On this day in history johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67   

May 29   "Virginia Plan" proposed in the year 1787.   

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   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   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   In the year 1787 congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Aug 06   In the year 1787 constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate   

Aug 10   Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik" on this day in history.   

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

Aug 15   On this day in history alexander Aliabiev, composer   

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

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 in the year 1787.   

Aug 24   In the year 1787 james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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Jan 05   John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 13   In the year 1787 birth of john Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)   

Feb 13   James P Carrell, composer was born in the year 1787.   

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

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   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   In the year 1787 death of ruÄ‘er BoÅ¡ković, 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 on this day in history.   

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