Page 2: Historical Events In 1787

May 14   On this day in history delegates gather in Phila to draw up US constitution   

May 14   On this day in history delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution   

May 17   In the year 1787 english slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes   

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   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 in the year 1787.   

Jun 20   Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63 in the year 1787.   

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

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

Jul 13   On this day in history 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   Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes on this day in history.   

Aug 01   Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 in the year 1787.   

Aug 02   Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc on this day in history.   

Aug 06   Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate in the year 1787.   

Aug 10   On this day in history mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"   

Aug 13   Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1787 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   James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) in the year 1787.   

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   In the year 1787 john Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863   

Sep 12   Black Masons form 1st lodge on this day in history.   

Sep 13   On this day in history prussian army moves into Netherlands   

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   On this day in history birth of john Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)   

Feb 13   James P Carrell, composer was born on this day in history.   

Feb 16   In the year 1787 birth of andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer   

Feb 23   Emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame) was born on this day in history.   

Mar 06   Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum) was born in the year 1787.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 13   RuÄ‘er BoÅ¡ković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711) died on this day in history.   

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   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)