Page 2: Historical Events In 1787

May 14   Delegates gather in Phila to draw up US constitution on this day in history.   

May 14   On this day in history delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution   

May 17   English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes in the year 1787.   

May 24   The Constitutional Convention is convened after a quorum of delegates attends in Philadelphia on this day in history.   

May 25   Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding on this day in history.   

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

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   Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States in the year 1787.   

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 in the year 1787.   

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

Jul 06   French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax in the year 1787.   

Jul 13   Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery) on this day in history.   

Jul 13   Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Aug 02   Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc on this day in history.   

Aug 06   Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate on this day in history.   

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

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

Aug 15   Alexander Aliabiev, composer in the year 1787.   

Aug 17   Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups in the year 1787.   

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

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

Sep 12   Black Masons form 1st lodge in the year 1787.   

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

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

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

Jan 08   Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer was born in the year 1787.   

Jan 13   On this day in history 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   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   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 in the year 1787.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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

Mar 11   Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45 in the year 1787.   

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