* 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.

According to Captain Phillip's amended Commission, dated 25 April 1787, the colony included all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean within the latitudes of 10 ° 37 ' S and 43 ° 39 ' S which included most of New Zealand except for the southern half of the South Island.

In 1787, William Bligh was appointed Captain of the HMS Bounty, and was instructed to proceed to the South Pacific for this task.

The First Fleet is the name given to the eleven ships that sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787 ( consisting of 10 civil officers, 212 Marines, including officers, additional 28 wives and 17 children of the marines, 81 free persons, 504 male convicts and 192 female convicts ; total free persons: 348, prisoners: 696 ; total 1044 ), to establish the first European colony in Australia, in the region which Captain Cook had named New South Wales.

This archipelago was surveyed in 1787 by Captain George Dixon of the British Navy.

In 1787, George Fruits joined a company under Captain Kennedy to fight the Indians in Kentucky and along the Ohio River.

The southern half of Prince of Wales Island is Kaigani Haida territory, but is not included in the term Haida Gwaii. In 1787 the islands were surveyed by Captain George Dixon.

In March 1787, Captain Charles William Barkley of the Imperial Eagle, explored Barkley Sound, which now bears his name.

* HMS Captain was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1787.

Upon his return to the United States in 1787, he became a promoter of the ship Columbia Rediviva's voyage around the world under command of Captain Robert Gray ( 1755 – 1806 ).

He was a Captain of militia during the Revolutionary War, served as one of the state Treasurers ( 1782 – 1784 ), and served in the North Carolina state legislature ( 1784 – 1787 ).

It was named by Joseph Banks for Captain George Dixon, a Royal Navy officer, fur trader, and explorer, who surveyed the area in 1787.

Salisbury Sound was named by Captain Nathaniel Portlock in 1787, in honor of Bishop Salisbury, even though Portlock did not ever see the sound itself.

Captain Nathaniel Portlock named the island Pitt Island in 1787.

In 1787 the First Fleet of 11 ships and about 1350 people under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip set sail for Australia.

* 1787: Rejoined Captain Dodd on the Lowestoffe, but within two months, that was paid off too.

On September 30, 1787, Robert Gray and Captain John Kendrick left Boston in two ships, to trade along the north Pacific coast.

Daniel Jr. was the son of Captain Daniel ( 1697 – 1787 ) and Mary Steere ( c. 1700 – 1776 ) Mowry.

On 13 May, 1787, the First Fleet of 11 ships and about 1530 people ( 736 convicts, 17 convicts ' children, 211 marines, 27 marines ' wives, 14 marines ' children and about 300 officers and others ) under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip set sail for Botany Bay.

* June 26 – Arthur Middleton, American politician ( d. 1787 )

Plymouth was established in 1787 by Arthur Rhodes on of his Brick House plantation he subdivided into 172 lots.

Arthur Middleton ( June 26, 1742 – January 1, 1787 ), of Charleston, South Carolina, was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.

Arthur died on January 1, 1787 at the age of 44 and was buried in the family tomb in the Gardens at Middleton Place.

A conversation piece by Arthur Devis ( 1712 – 1787 ) | Arthur Devis

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

In 1787, he was a candidate for president of the Congress, but Arthur St. Clair was chosen instead.

# Col. Lord John Thomas Henry Somerset ( 30 August 1787 – 3 October 1846 ), married Lady Catherine Annesley, daughter of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris on 4 December 1814

* Arthur Keene ( died 1818 ), a leader of the Methodist community in Dublin in its early days, lived at 46 Charlemont St. John Wesley stayed with him there when he visited Dublin in April 1787.

* Arthur Wolfe: 1 May 1787 – 16 July 1789

* 13 May 1787 – The 11 ships of the First Fleet leave Portsmouth under the command of Capt Arthur Phillip.

* 1788 – New South Wales, according to Arthur Phillip's amended Commission dated 25 April 1787, includes " all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean " and running westward to the 135th meridian east.

# Arthur Fenner, Jr. ( born 9 November 1766 ; died 27 September 1837 ); fifer in various companies ; lived at Fairfield, New York in 1827 ; married Lydia Sabin ( born 1766 ), daughter of Thomas Sabin, on 8 December 1787.