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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.
July 13, 1787
– The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
August 6, 1787
– Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
September 28, 1787
– The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
October 1, 1787
– Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
October 29, 1787
– Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
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.
Who Were Born On 1787?
January 13, 1787
– John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
March 6, 1787
– Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)
March 11, 1787
– Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
April 13, 1787
– John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873)
September 5, 1787
– François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
November 18, 1787
– Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
November 21, 1787
– Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born shipping magnate (d. 1865)
December 9, 1787
– John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
December 14, 1787
– Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1816)
December 16, 1787
– Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855)