* 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 ).

# 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.

Washington was elected to the State legislature from 1787 to 1804 but refused to run for State Governor because he, in his words, “ was not born a Carolinian .” Washington also accepted a post of brigadier general commanding the Seventh Brigade of the South Carolina State Militia in 1794.

He was a popular character, and the friend of most of the notabilities of his day, whom he never offended by attempting political satire ; his easy circumstances and social position ( he was colonel of the West Suffolk Militia, and was appointed equerry to the Duke of York in 1787 ) allowed him leisure to practise his talents.

A similar reform movement for Danish, which at this time was the written language also in Norway, was led by Rasmus Rask ( 1787 – 1832 ) and his follower Niels Matthias Petersen ( 1791 – 1862 ).

An order by governor Daniel Corneille ( 1782 – 1787 ) banning garrison troops and sailors from punch-taverns, only allowing them to drink at army canteens, led to a mutiny over Christmas 1787 when some 200 troops skirmished with loyal troops over a three day period.

The success of the Prague production led to the commissioning of the next Mozart / Da Ponte opera, Don Giovanni, premiered in Prague in 1787 ; see Mozart and Prague.

Their proposals for the governance of the territory led to the passage of the Ordinance of 1787, which would guide the Northwest Territory until the establishment of states that it called for.

He also led the New Jersey Medical Society in 1787.

Livingston led the New Jersey Delegation to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one of the signers of the Constitution.

In 1787, Allen and Jones led the black members out of St. George's Methodist Church.

He was a member of the North Carolina delegation at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and led efforts in North Carolina to ratify the Constitution in 1789.

It wasn't until 1783 that Soane received his first commission for a new country house, Letton Hall, Norfolk, the house was a fairly modest villa but it was a sign that at last Soane's career was taking off and led to other work in East Anglia ; Saxlingham Rectory in 1784 and Shotesham Hall, Shotesham in 1785 ; Tendring Hall, Suffolk, ( 1784 – 86 ) and the remodelling of Ryston Hall ( 1787 )

Debate over the federal constitution in 1787 led to formation of the groups known as Federalists — mainly " downstaters " ( those who lived in or near New York City ) who supported a strong national government — and Antifederalists — mainly upstaters ( those who lived to the City's north and west ) who opposed large national institutions.

This led to Lord opening his first cricket ground in 1787.

In 1784 Francis was returned to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the borough of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight ; and although he took an opportunity to disclaim every feeling of personal animosity towards Hastings, this did not prevent him, on the return of the latter in 1785, from doing all in his power to bring forward and support the charges which ultimately led to the impeachment resolutions of 1787.

Significant actions of the General Assembly include the calling of the constitutional convention which became the first to ratify the United States Constitution in 1787 ( which led to Delaware's state nickname, " the First State "), and its rejection of secession from the Union on January 3, 1861, even though Delaware was a slave state.

Known as the " Saints ", the alliance was led by the best known of the anti-slave trade campaigners, William Wilberforce, who had taken on the cause of abolition in 1787 after having read the evidence that Thomas Clarkson had amassed against the trade.

There was a mutiny on board on 22 May 1787, which led to the ship running aground and sinking.

The death of his patron, M. de Vergennes, in 1787, led to his recall, and the rest of his life was given mainly to artistic pursuits.

The discovery of local ironstone led to the development of Stanton Ironworks in 1787.

* In 1787, the Moravian missionary, David Zeisberger, led a group of Christian-converted Native-Americans from their settlement on the Cuyahoga River, to a new settlement called first Pettquotting ( but later named ' New Salem ' in 1790 ) on the Huron River, about 3 miles north of ( now ) Milan, Ohio.

These economic pressures led to outbreaks of civil unrest which culminated in Shays ' Rebellion, an uprising in central and western Massachusetts lasting from 1786 to 1787.

This successful diplomacy led to his promotion in the summer of 1783 to the post of envoy extraordinary to the Empress Catherine of Russia, and he accompanied her in her tour round the Crimea in 1787.

Local complaints about the low rents being charged by the corporation for the Parker fund lands had led to increases from £ 49 in 1787 to £ 134 in 1809, but the council also turned down an offer from one James Halloway to rent the estate for £ 205.

" By September 1, 1787, negotiations at the Constitutional Convention had led to the following draft which included supplementary language as Madison had requested:

The Russo-Turkish-Austrian War erupted in 1787, and Mavrogenes retreated in front of a new Habsburg invasion, led by Prince Josias of Coburg ( 1789 ).