Page 2: Historical Events In 1787

May 14   Delegates gather in Phila to draw up US constitution on this day in history.   

May 14   Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution on this day in history.   

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   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   In the year 1787 "Virginia Plan" proposed   

Jun 12   Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old in the year 1787.   

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 in the year 1787.   

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

Jul 15   Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes in the year 1787.   

Aug 01   Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 on this day in history.   

Aug 02   In the year 1787 horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc   

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   In the year 1787 isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies   

Aug 15   On this day in history alexander Aliabiev, composer   

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   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   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 in the year 1787.   

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

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 in the year 1787.   

Mar 06   Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum) was born on this day in history.   

Mar 08   On this day in history 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   On this day in history ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75   

Feb 13   RuÄ‘er BoÅ¡ković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711) died in the year 1787.   

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

Mar 11   On this day in history maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45   

Apr 01   In the year 1787 death of floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710)   

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

May 10   William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715) died on this day in history.