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   In the year 1787 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   On this day in history johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67   

May 29   "Virginia Plan" proposed on this day in history.   

Jun 12   On this day in history law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old   

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 in the year 1787.   

Jun 28   In the year 1787 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   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   Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop on this day in history.   

Jul 15   On this day in history parliament of Paris banished to Troyes   

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   In the year 1787 constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate   

Aug 10   Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik" in the year 1787.   

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   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 in the year 1787.   

Aug 24   James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) in the year 1787.   

Aug 24   Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526 in the year 1787.   

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

Sep 10   John Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863 on this day in history.   

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

Sep 13   Prussian army moves into Netherlands on this day in history.   

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

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

Jan 08   On this day in history birth of johann Ludwig Bohner, composer   

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

Jan 01   Arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44 in the year 1787.   

Feb 12   Ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75 in the year 1787.   

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

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

Mar 11   Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45 on this day in history.   

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

Apr 02   On this day in history death of thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)   

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