Page 4: Historical Events In 1787

Dec 01   Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer on this day in history.   

Dec 01   The first lighthouse, built at Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh, by Thomas Smith and Robert Stevenson, lit in the year 1787.   

Dec 06   On this day in history laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor   

Dec 07   On this day in history delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution   

Dec 07   On this day in history delaware becomes first state to ratify constitution   

Dec 10   In the year 1787 thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Phila, pioneer of educating the deaf   

Dec 12   Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution in the year 1787.   

Dec 15   On this day in history charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic   

Dec 18   On this day in history new Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution   

Dec 22   In the year 1787 rasmus Rask, Denmark, language scholar   

Dec 28   On this day in history hermanus J Abbring, Dutch writer/engineer on Curacao   

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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 in the year 1787.   

Jan 13   John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854) was born on this day in history.   

Feb 13   On this day in history birth of james P Carrell, composer   

Feb 16   In the year 1787 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   Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum) was born in the year 1787.   

Mar 08   On this day in history birth of karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery   

Jan 01   On this day in history arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44   

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

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

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

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

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

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

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