Page 2: Historical Events In 1787

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

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 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 on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1787 de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered   

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

Jul 06   French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax in the year 1787.   

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   In the year 1787 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   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 in the year 1787.   

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

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

Aug 24   On this day in history wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526   

Sep 01   John Bake, classical composer in the year 1787.   

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   In the year 1787 prussian army moves into Netherlands   

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

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Jan 05   On this day in history birth of john Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)   

Jan 08   On this day in history 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   Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer was born on this day in history.   

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   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 in the year 1787.   

Feb 13   On this day in history death of ruÄ‘er BoÅ¡ković, 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   On this day in history maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45   

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

Apr 02   Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719) died in the year 1787.   

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