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 in the year 1787.  

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

Jun 20   In the year 1787 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   Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces on this day in history.  

Jul 02   de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered on this day in history.  

Jul 04   On this day in history charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71  

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   Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop on this day in history.  

Jul 15   On this day in history 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 in the year 1787.  

Aug 06   Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate on this day in history.  

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

Aug 13   On this day in history isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies  

Aug 15   In the year 1787 alexander Aliabiev, composer  

Aug 17   In the year 1787 jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups  

Aug 19   W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn on this day in history.  

Aug 22   On this day in history john Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton  

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 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   Black Masons form 1st lodge on this day in history.  

Sep 13   Prussian army moves into Netherlands in the year 1787.  

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

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

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

Feb 23   In the year 1787 birth of emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame)  

Mar 06   In the year 1787 birth of joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)  

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 in the year 1787.  

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

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   Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45 in the year 1787.  

Apr 01   Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710) died in the year 1787.  

Apr 02   In the year 1787 death of thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)  

May 10   In the year 1787 death of william Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)