1787 Calendar
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1787 Historical Event(s)
January 11, 1787
– William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
January 25, 1787
– American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor’s prisons.
February 3, 1787
– Shays’ Rebellion is crushed.
May 13, 1787
– Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the “First Fleet”) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
May 14, 1787
– In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
June 20, 1787
– Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
September 17, 1787
– The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
December 7, 1787
– Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
December 12, 1787
– Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution five days after Delaware became the first.
December 18, 1787
– New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Who Were Born On 1787?
March 10, 1787
– William Etty, English painter (d. 1849)
March 11, 1787
– Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
March 17, 1787
– Edmund Kean, English actor (d. 1833)
April 13, 1787
– John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873)
April 26, 1787
– Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
September 5, 1787
– François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
November 21, 1787
– Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born shipping magnate (d. 1865)
November 22, 1787
– Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
December 10, 1787
– Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
December 14, 1787
– Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1816)