* 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 – 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.

File: David-The Death of Socrates. jpg | The Death of Socrates ( 1787 ), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

* A New Nation Votes: American Elections Returns 1787 – 1825

* A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787 – 1825

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.

His uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1787 – 1862 ), was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, was a U. S. Senator from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835, was the Whig candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Henry Clay ticket in the 1844 Presidential election, and was Chancellor of New York University from 1839 until 1850 and president of Rutgers College from 1850 to 1862.

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

For instance, the important Anti-Federalist authors " Cato " and " Brutus " debuted in New York papers on September 27 and October 18, 1787, respectively.

The Federalist Papers appeared in three New York newspapers: the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily Advertiser, beginning on October 27, 1787.

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

* A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787 – 1825 For Henry Clay's election results.

It is named after Alexander Hamilton, the only member of the New York State delegation who signed the United States Constitution in 1787 and later the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.

Seth Reed, a Colonel in the Battle of Bunker Hill moved here with his family as a Pioneer between 1787 and 1795. see also Geneva ( town ), New York

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.

In 1787, the eastern portion of Dartmouth seceded and formed a new settlement called New Bedford.

A section of Old Dartmouth near the west bank of the Acushnet River, originally called Bedford Village, was officially incorporated as the town of New Bedford in 1787.

( Bedford, Massachusetts had already been incorporated by 1787 ; hence " New " Bedford.

Several small mills were built along the Westport River, and in 1787, the town, along with the town of New Bedford, seceded from Dartmouth.

* Samuel Lewis Southard ( 1787 – 1842 ), served as U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, and the 10th Governor of New Jersey.

When passed in New York in 1787, the Northwest Ordinance showed the influence of Jefferson.

In 1787 Clinton was depicted on an unauthorized copper coin minted privately in New York with " EXCELSIOR " on reverse.

After spending a short time at Woolwich to complete his military education, he made a tour through Spain in 1787 ; and then, dejected by unrequited love for his cousin Georgina Lennox ( who later married the 3rd Earl Bathurst ), he sailed for New Brunswick to join the 54th Regiment with the rank of Major.

The American Revolutionary War disrupted mail to New York, and also showed the weakness in not having an all-British route to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in 1787 a complicated route was set up through Riviere du Loup, Fredericton, Digby, and Annapolis.