Page 2: Historical Events In 1787

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

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

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 on this day in history.   

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

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

Jun 20   In the year 1787 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   Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces in the year 1787.   

Jul 02   de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered in the year 1787.   

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   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 in the year 1787.   

Jul 15   On this day in history parliament of Paris banished to Troyes   

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   Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate in the year 1787.   

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   On this day in history 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   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   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   On this day in history -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   John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854) was born in the year 1787.   

Feb 13   James P Carrell, composer was born on this day in history.   

Feb 16   On this day in history 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   In the year 1787 birth of karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery   

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 in the year 1787.   

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

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   Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710) died in the year 1787.   

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)