Page 4: Historical Events In 1787

Dec 01   Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer in the year 1787.   

Dec 01   The first lighthouse, built at Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh, by Thomas Smith and Robert Stevenson, lit on this day in history.   

Dec 06   Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor in the year 1787.   

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

Dec 07   In the year 1787 delaware becomes first state to ratify constitution   

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

Dec 12   In the year 1787 pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution   

Dec 15   In the year 1787 charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic   

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

Dec 22   On this day in history 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   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   Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer was born in the year 1787.   

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

Jan 01   Arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44 on this day in history.   

Feb 12   Ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1787.   

Apr 02   Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719) died in the year 1787.   

May 10   William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715) died in the year 1787.