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   English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes on this day in history.   

May 24   The Constitutional Convention is convened after a quorum of delegates attends in Philadelphia in the year 1787.   

May 25   On this day in history constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding   

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 on this day in history.   

May 29   "Virginia Plan" proposed in the year 1787.   

Jun 12   In the year 1787 law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old   

Jun 20   On this day in history carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63   

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   In the year 1787 de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered   

Jul 04   In the year 1787 charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71   

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

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

Jul 13   On this day in history 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   Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 in the year 1787.   

Aug 02   On this day in history horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc   

Aug 06   On this day in history constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate   

Aug 10   Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik" in the year 1787.   

Aug 13   In the year 1787 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 in the year 1787.   

Aug 19   On this day in history w Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn   

Aug 22   In the year 1787 john Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton   

Aug 24   On this day in history james Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)   

Aug 24   On this day in history wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526   

Sep 01   In the year 1787 john Bake, classical composer   

Sep 10   On this day in history john Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863   

Sep 12   Black Masons form 1st lodge on this day in history.   

Sep 13   Prussian army moves into Netherlands in the year 1787.   

Sep 15   -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam on this day in history.   

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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   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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1787.   

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

Jan 01   In the year 1787 arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44   

Feb 12   On this day in history ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75   

Feb 13   On this day in history 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   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   Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719) died in the year 1787.   

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