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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.
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.
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.
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 10, 1787
– Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa, Spanish statesman and dramatist (d. 1862)
April 19, 1787
– Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
May 7, 1787
– Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
June 4, 1787
– Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856)
August 24, 1787
– James Weddell, English explorer of Antarctica (d. 1834)
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 24, 1787
– Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
December 10, 1787
– Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)