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   On this day in history the Constitutional Convention is convened after a quorum of delegates attends in Philadelphia   

May 25   In the year 1787 constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding   

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   "Virginia Plan" proposed on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered   

Jul 04   Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71 in the year 1787.   

Jul 06   On this day in history french government proclaims end to stamp/land tax   

Jul 13   In the year 1787 congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)   

Jul 13   On this day in history 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   In the year 1787 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 in the year 1787.   

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

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

Aug 15   Alexander Aliabiev, composer in the year 1787.   

Aug 17   Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups in the year 1787.   

Aug 19   On this day in history w Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn   

Aug 22   On this day in history 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   In the year 1787 wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526   

Sep 01   In the year 1787 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 in the year 1787.   

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

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

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Jan 05   John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 08   Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 13   John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854) was born in the year 1787.   

Feb 13   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Mar 06   On this day in history birth of joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)   

Mar 08   Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery was born in the year 1787.   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 13   On this day in history death of ruÄ‘er BoÅ¡ković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)   

Mar 02   In the year 1787 jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73   

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

May 10   On this day in history death of william Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)