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

May 25   Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding in the year 1787.   

May 25   In the year 1787 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   In the year 1787 "Virginia Plan" proposed   

Jun 12   Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old in the year 1787.   

Jun 20   Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

Jun 20   In the year 1787 oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.   

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   On this day in history charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71   

Jul 06   French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax on this day in history.   

Jul 13   Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery) in the year 1787.   

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

Aug 06   In the year 1787 constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate   

Aug 10   Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik" on this day in history.   

Aug 13   On this day in history isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies   

Aug 15   On this day in history alexander Aliabiev, composer   

Aug 17   Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups on this day in history.   

Aug 19   W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn in the year 1787.   

Aug 22   John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton on this day in history.   

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   John Bake, classical composer on this day in history.   

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

Sep 12   In the year 1787 black Masons form 1st lodge   

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

Feb 13   James P Carrell, composer was born in the year 1787.   

Feb 16   In the year 1787 birth of andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer   

Feb 23   On this day in history birth of emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame)   

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 on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1787.   

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

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

Mar 11   On this day in history maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45   

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

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)