Page 2: Historical Events In 1787

May 14   In the year 1787 delegates gather in Phila to draw up US constitution   

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

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

May 25   Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding on this day in history.   

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   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   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   In the year 1787 parliament of Paris banished to Troyes   

Aug 01   Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

Aug 13   Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies on this day in history.   

Aug 15   In the year 1787 alexander Aliabiev, composer   

Aug 17   On this day in history jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups   

Aug 19   In the year 1787 w Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn   

Aug 22   On this day in history john Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton   

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 on this day in history.   

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   Black Masons form 1st lodge in the year 1787.   

Sep 13   Prussian army moves into Netherlands on this day in history.   

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

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Jan 05   John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage) was born in the year 1787.   

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   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 on this day in history.   

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 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   In the year 1787 ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75   

Feb 13   In the year 1787 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   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   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)