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 on this day in history.   

May 25   Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding on this day in history.   

May 25   In the year 1787 constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding   

May 28   On this day in history johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67   

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   In the year 1787 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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1787.   

Jul 06   In the year 1787 french government proclaims end to stamp/land tax   

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   Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes in the year 1787.   

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   In the year 1787 constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate   

Aug 10   In the year 1787 mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"   

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   John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton on this day in history.   

Aug 24   On this day in history james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)   

Aug 24   In the year 1787 wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526   

Sep 01   On this day in history john Bake, classical composer   

Sep 10   In the year 1787 john Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863   

Sep 12   Black Masons form 1st lodge in the year 1787.   

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

Feb 13   In the year 1787 birth of james P Carrell, composer   

Feb 16   On this day in history birth of andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer   

Feb 23   Emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame) was born in the year 1787.   

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

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   In the year 1787 death of ruÄ‘er BoÅ¡ković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)   

Mar 02   Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73 in the year 1787.   

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 on this day in history.   

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.