* 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.

* 1787 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist ( d. 1850 )

* 1698 – François Francoeur, French composer and violinist ( d. 1787 )

** François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist ( b. 1787 )

François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (; 1787 – 1874 )

* François Joseph Heim ( 1787 – 1865 ), painter

* François Gaston de Lévis, Duc de Lévis ( 1719 – 1787 ), Marshal of France since 13. 6. 1783

* François de Gaston, Chevalier de Lévis ( 1719 – 1787 ), French soldier best known for his command in Canada in 1760

French historians of the first half of the 19th century like the politician and man of letters François Guizot ( 1787 – 1874 ), historian François Mignet ( published Histoire de la Révolution française in 1824 ), and famous philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville ( L ’ Ancien Régime et la Révolution, 1856 ) established and wrote in this tradition.

The parish received its first resident priest the next year, then, in 1775, François Noiseux became local priest and, under his guidance and with his financing, the parish would build its first church from 1784 to 1787.

* François Joseph Heim ( 1787 – 1865 ), French painter

François Sulpice Beudant ( September 5, 1787 – December 10, 1850 ), French mineralogist and geologist, was born in Paris.

François Francœur ( 8 September 1698 – 5 August 1787 ) was a French composer and violinist.

In 1787, David did not become the Director of the French Academy in Rome, which was a position he wanted dearly.

In 1787 the French physicist Jacques Charles found that oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and air expand to the same extent over the same 80 kelvin interval.

* 1787 – Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer ( d. 1851 )

* French ship Orion ( 1787 ), a Téméraire class ship of the French Navy

In 1795 governor Robert Brooke ( 1787 – 1801 ) was alerted that the French had overrun the Netherlands, forcing the Dutch to become their allies.

* July 10 – Louis Daguerre, French artist and chemist ( b. 1787 )

In 1889, for his final examination at the end of his course of study, he submitted his opera Gina, with a libretto by Enrico Golisciani which was adapted from the old French play Catherine, ou La Croix d ' or by Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville ( 1787 — 1865 ).

The piece, composed in 1787, was commissioned to mark the death of the wife of the French ambassador in St. Petersburg.

This changed the new republic from an Anglo-Prussian to a French client state ; henceforth it would conduct a foreign and military policy dictated by France, where its predecessor had followed British dictates since 1787 ( an offensive and defensive alliance of the two republics was part of the treaty ), while its economic policies would in effect also be made subservient to the interests of France.

In 1787, Pigneau de Béhaine, a French Catholic priest, petitioned the French government and organized French military volunteers to aid Nguyễn Ánh in retaking lands his family lost to the Tây Sơn.

During the reign of her husband, Marie Antoinette used many French Crown Jewels for personal adornment by having the individual gems placed into new settings and combinations, but the French Blue remained in this pendant except for a brief time in 1787, when the stone was removed for scientific study by Mathurin Jacques Brisson and returned to its setting soon thereafter.

In 1787, French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville, sent to Mexico to steal the cochineal insect valued for its scarlet dye, reported the strangely beautiful flowers he had seen growing in a garden in Oaxaca.

This work was published in 1756 ( the year of Wolfgang's birth ), and went through two further German editions ( 1769, 1787 ), as well as being translated into Dutch ( 1766 ) and French ( 1770 ).