Page 2: Historical Events In 1787

May 14   Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution   

May 17   English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes   

May 24   The Constitutional Convention is convened after a quorum of delegates attends in Philadelphia   

May 25   Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding   

May 25   Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding   

May 28   Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67   

May 29   "Virginia Plan" proposed   

Jun 12   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   

Jun 20   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   

Jul 02   de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered   

Jul 04   Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71   

Jul 06   French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax.   

Jul 13   Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)   

Jul 13   Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60000 pop   

Jul 15   Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes.   

Aug 01   Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90   

Aug 02   Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc.   

Aug 06   Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate   

Aug 10   Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"   

Aug 13   Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies.   

Aug 15   Alexander Aliabiev, composer   

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

Aug 19   W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn   

Aug 22   John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton.   

Aug 24   James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)   

Aug 24   Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526   

Sep 01   John Bake, classical composer   

Sep 10   John Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863   

Sep 12   Black Masons form 1st lodge.   

Sep 13   Prussian army moves into Netherlands   

Sep 15   -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam.   

Sep 17   Prussian troops conquer Gorinchem.   

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Jan 05   John burke: Irish genealogist (burke's peerage)   

Jan 08   Johann ludwig bohner: Composer   

Jan 13   John davis: 14th and 17th governor of massachusetts   

Feb 13   James p carrell: Composer   

Feb 16   Andreas schelfhout: Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer   

Feb 23   Emma willard: Us, opens school for young ladies (hall of fame)   

Mar 06   Joseph von fraunhofer: Germany, physicist (studied sun's spectrum)   

Mar 08   Karl ferdinand von grafe: Help create modern plastic surgery   

Jan 01   Arthur middleton: Us farmer (signed decl of independence),   

Feb 12   Ruggiero boscovich: Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher,   

Feb 13   RuÄ‘er boÅ¡ković: Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)   

Mar 02   Jean some allamand: French theologist/natural philosopher,   

Mar 11   Maximilian jlp gardel: French ballet dancer/choreographer,    

Apr 01   Floyer sydenham: English classical scholar (b. 1710)   

Apr 02   Thomas gage: British general (b. 1719)   

May 10   William watson: English physician and scientist (b. 1715)