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

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.

** Floyer Sydenham, classical scholar ( died 1787 )

Financial success was not found, but he went on the publish The Botanical Magazine in 1787, a work that would also feature hand coloured plates by artists such as James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards, and William Kilburn.

* 1855 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist ( b. 1787 )

* 1787 – William Etty, English painter ( d. 1849 )

* 1787 – Edmund Kean, English actor ( d. 1833 )

A number of " Black Poor " arrived off the coast of Sierra Leone on 15 May 1787, accompanied by some English tradesmen.

* October 12 – Sir Harry Smith, English soldier and military commander, ( b. 1787 )

* January 10 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist ( b. 1787 )

* November 27 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and grammarian ( d. 1787 )

* April 3 – William Watson, English physician and scientist ( d. 1787 )

* January 1 – Soame Jenyns, English writer ( d. 1787 )

* Cary's New and Correct English Atlas ( London, 1787 )

The first-known English climber in the Alps was Colonel Mark Beaufoy ( 1764 – 1827 ), who in 1787 made an ascent ( the fourth ) of Mont Blanc, a mountain to which his fellow-countrymen long exclusively devoted themselves, with a few noteworthy exceptions, such as Principal J. D.

In the period spent abroad, from 13 March 1787 until the end of 1789, Piazzi became acquainted with the major French and English astronomers of his time and was able to have the famous altazimuthal circle made by Jesse Ramsden, one of the most skilled instrument-makers of the 18th century.

William Jowett, a 19th century missionary and author, was born at Newington in 1787, as was the visionary English artist Samuel Palmer in 1805.

His fourth and final tour of English prisons began in March 1787 and two years later he published The State of the Prisons in England, and An Account of the Principal Lazarettos of Europe.

Edward Foss ( 16 October 1787 – 27 July 1870 ) was an English lawyer and biographer.

An English translation of certain portions of the Palingénésie philosophique was published in 1787, under the title Philosophical and Critical Inquiries concerning Christianity.

Charles Cowden Clarke ( 15 December 1787 – 13 March 1877 ), English author and Shakespearian scholar, was born in Enfield, Middlesex.

Richard Whately ( 1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863 ) was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian who also served as the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.

This was also practiced in Danish before the spelling reform of 1948, and in English during the 18th century ( as in Gulliver's Travels, and most of the original 1787 United States Constitution ).

A second enlarged edition ( 16 vols ) was issued from 1787 to 1794, and was succeeded by many others, besides abridgments in German, French and English.

Category: English cricketers of 1787 to 1825

Most of the fables in Hecatomythium were later translated in the second half of Roger L ' Estrange's Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists ( 1692 ); some also appeared among the 102 in H. Clarke's Latin reader, Select fables of Aesop: with an English translation ( 1787 ), of which there were both English and American editions.