Page 2: Historical Events In 1787

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

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

May 17   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

May 25   Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding in the year 1787.   

May 28   Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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

Jun 12   On this day in history 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   In the year 1787 henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces   

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

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   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 on this day in history.   

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   Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc in the year 1787.   

Aug 06   Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate in the year 1787.   

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

Aug 13   Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies in the year 1787.   

Aug 15   Alexander Aliabiev, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 17   Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups on this day in history.   

Aug 19   In the year 1787 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   James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) on this day in history.   

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

Sep 01   On this day in history john Bake, classical composer   

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

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

Sep 13   In the year 1787 prussian army moves into Netherlands   

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 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   James P Carrell, composer was born in the year 1787.   

Feb 16   Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer was born on this day in history.   

Feb 23   Emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame) was born on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 01   In the year 1787 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   RuÄ‘er BoÅ¡ković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711) died on this day in history.   

Mar 02   On this day in history jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73   

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

Apr 01   Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710) died in the year 1787.   

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)