Page 2: Historical Events In 1787

May 14   Delegates gather in Phila to draw up US constitution in the year 1787.   

May 14   Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution in the year 1787.   

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   Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding on this day in history.   

May 25   On this day in history constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding   

May 28   Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67 in the year 1787.   

May 29   On this day in history "Virginia Plan" proposed   

Jun 12   In the year 1787 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   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Jul 02   de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered on this day in history.   

Jul 04   Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Jul 06   On this day in history french government proclaims end to stamp/land tax   

Jul 13   On this day in history congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)   

Jul 13   Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop in the year 1787.   

Jul 15   Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes in the year 1787.   

Aug 01   On this day in history alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90   

Aug 02   In the year 1787 horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc   

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

Aug 10   On this day in history mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"   

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   In the year 1787 jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups   

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 in the year 1787.   

Aug 24   In the year 1787 james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)   

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

Sep 01   John Bake, classical composer in the year 1787.   

Sep 10   In the year 1787 john Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863   

Sep 12   On this day in history black Masons form 1st lodge   

Sep 13   On this day in history prussian army moves into Netherlands   

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

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Jan 05   In the year 1787 birth of john Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)   

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   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 on this day in history.   

Mar 08   Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery was born on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 13   In the year 1787 death of ruÄ‘er BoÅ¡ković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)   

Mar 02   Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

Mar 11   In the year 1787 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   Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719) died in the year 1787.   

May 10   On this day in history death of william Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)