* 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.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

George Washington at Constitutional Convention ( United States ) | Constitutional Convention of 1787, signing of U. S. Constitution.

Prior to the passage of the United States Constitution, several States passed their own various copyright laws between 1783 and 1787, the first state being Connecticut.

The Copyright Clause of the United States Constitution ( 1787 ) authorized copyright legislation: " To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

Delaware was one of the 13 colonies participating in the American Revolution and on December 7, 1787, became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby becoming known as The First State.

As part of the fledgling nation's government, he was treasurer of the Continental Loan Office in 1778 ; appointed judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 and reappointed in 1780 and 1787 ; and helped ratify the Constitution during the constitutional convention in 1787.

Dissatisfied with the weaknesses of Articles of Confederation, in 1787 Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution.

Washington Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States | at the Signing of the United States Constitution, September 17, 1787, by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940.

* 1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States ; George Washington presides.

With the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution, control of the army and the power to direct the militia of the states was concurrently delegated to the federal Congress.

From 1787 to 1789 Webster was an outspoken supporter of the new Constitution.

In October 1787, he wrote a pamphlet titled " An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia ," published under the pen name " A Citizen of America.

Earlier, there was a strong romantic nationalist element mixed with Enlightenment rationalism in the rhetoric used in British North America, in the colonists ' Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution of 1787, as well as the rhetoric in the wave of revolts, inspired by new senses of localized identities, which swept the American colonies of Spain, one after the other, from 1811.

* 1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U. S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

* 1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The US Constitution of 1787 provided for protection of the international slave trade for two decades, during which planters of the Lower South imported tens of thousands of slaves, more than during any other 20-year period.

Involved with writing the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of 1787.

He was a delegate to the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787, as well as a signer of the Constitution.

The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in eleven states.

In 1787 he attended the United States Constitutional Convention and was one of the delegates voting against the new constitution ( joining George Mason and Edmund Randolph in not signing it ).

The 1787 dismissal of Governor Patterson and his recall to London in 1789 dampened his brother's efforts, leading John to focus on his interests in the United States ( one of John's sons, Commodore Daniel Patterson, became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success ).

In 1787, the Congress of the Confederation enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which created the Northwest Territory in what is now the upper Midwestern United States.

The United States could not defend itself as an independent nation in the world of 1787.

Category: 1787 in the United States

* February 2 – James C. Jarvis, United States Navy officer ( b. 1787 )

* December 14 – George Washington, the military leader of the American Revolution, president of the Constitutional Convention ( 1787 ), and the first President of the United States ( 1789 – 97 ) ( b. 1732 )