* 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* 1787 – Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar ( b. 1710 )

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

* 1787 – Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary ( d. 1837 )

* 1852 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general ( b. 1787 )

Its first Lieutenant-Governor was Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres ( 1784 – 1787 ) and his successor was William Macarmick ( 1787 ).

* 1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

Three of five siblings survived to adulthood, Denise Diderot ( 1715 – 1797 ) and their youngest brother Pierre-Didier Diderot ( 1722 – 1787 ), and finally their sister Angélique Diderot ( 1720 – 1749 ).

* 1787 – Mary Russell Mitford, English writer ( d. 1855 )

* 1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U. S. Constitution.

* 1787 – John Dobson, English architect ( d. 1865 )

* 1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French geologist ( b. 1787 )

* 1723 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer ( d. 1787 )

* 1717 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat ( d. 1787 )

* 1787 – Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia ( d. 1816 )

The French Revolutionary Wars 1787 – 1802 ( 1996 ).

* 1787 – Militia led by General

# On 6 January 1808, he married again to another first cousin, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este ( 14 December 1787 – 7 April 1816 ) with no issue.

Between 1764 and 1771, the average importation of slaves varied between 10 000 – 15 000, by 1786 about 28 000, and, from 1787 onward, the colony received more than 40 000 slaves a year.

Middleton's son, Arthur ( 1742 – 1787 ) would also get involved in politics, succeeding his father as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776, after his resignation, and, later on, sign the Declaration of Independence.

* 1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist ( b. 1787 )

* 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

The work was not performed in Vienna during 1787 or 1788, but starting in 1789 there was a revival production.

Bowdler's first published work was Letters Written in Holland in the Months of September and October, 1787 ( 1788 ), which gave his eye-witness account of the Patriots ' uprising.

In 1778, Joseph Banks, Cook's botanist on the voyage, presented evidence to the government on the suitability of Botany Bay for the establishment of a penal settlement, and in 1787 the first shipment of convicts set sail, arriving in 1788.

Central documents include the Declaration of Independence ( 1776 ), the Constitution ( 1787 ), the Federalist Papers ( 1788 ), the Bill of Rights ( 1791 ), and Lincoln's " Gettysburg Address " ( 1863 ), among others.

Political parties had not been anticipated when the Constitution was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788, even though both Hamilton and Madison played major roles.

Her primary concern in late 1787 and 1788 was instead the improved health of the Dauphin.

Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788.

Among the major events of Louis XVI's reign was his signing of the Edict of Versailles, also known as the Edict of Tolerance, on 7 November 1787, which was registered in the parlement on 29 January 1788.

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

* Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton – Paragon ( 1786 ), Spadille ( 1787 ), Young Flora ( 1788 ), Tartar ( 1792 ), Petronius ( 1808 ), Ashton ( 1809 ), William ( 1814 )

It was only with the enactment of the United States Constitution ( drafted 1787 ; ratified 1788 ; fully effective since 4 March 1789 ) that veto power was conferred upon the person titled " President of the United States ".

Then in 1787 or 1788, he worked in the office of neoclassical architect S. P.

He was impeached in 1787, but the trial, which ran from 1788 to 1795, ended in acquittal.

( 1786 – 1791 ), his Mosaisches Recht ( 1770 – 1771 ) ( quite influenced by Montesquieu's L ' esprit des lois of 1748 ) and his edition of Edmund Castell's LCXI con syriacum ( 1787 – 1788 ).

He then returned to Balliol as a Snell Exhibitioner ; became Vicar of High Ercall, Shropshire in 1750 ; Canon of the Eleventh Stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor in 1762 ( to 1776 ); a member of the chapter of St Paul's Cathedral in 1777 ; Bishop of Carlisle in 1787 ( and also Dean of Windsor in 1788 ); and Bishop of Salisbury in 1791.

He returned to France in 1785 where he spent the following two years compiling his notes and writing his Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie, which was published in 1787, and Considérations sur la guerre des Turcs et de la Russie in 1788.

in 1787 and 1788 ; a third volume ( 1802 ) contains his Literarischer Nachlass.

Other works include poetry, as Ballads ( 1779 ) and Iambics ( 1784 ), and other works, such as Plays ( 1787 ) and Travels ( 1791 ); and novels, such as The Island ( 1788 ).

Nordin published during his lifetime Handlingar till uplysning af svenska krigs-historien ( Stockholm, 1787 – 1788 ).

The city was briefly restored to Ottoman administration from 1787 to 1788.

It was followed by Turk and no Turk ( 1785 ), a musical comedy ; Inkle and Yarico ( 1787 ), an opera ; Ways and Means ( 1788 ); The Iron Chest ( 1796 ), taken from William Godwin's Adventures of Caleb Williams ; The Poor Gentleman ( 1802 ); John Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside ( 1803 ), his most successful piece ; The Heir at Law ( 1808 ), which enriched the stage with one immortal character, " Dr Pangloss " ( borrowed of course from Voltaire's Candide ), and numerous other pieces, many of them adapted from the French.

* Arthur Young's Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 from The Library of Economics and Liberty

* Travels in France and Italy During the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789 from Archive for the History of Economic Thought