* 1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.

* 1787 – 1788: Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison

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.

" That spelling was used by Alexander Hamilton, a graduate of King's College ( now Columbia University ), in 1787 on the signature page of the United States Constitution.

Alexander Montgomerie's The Cherrie and the Slae in 1700, shortly over a decade later an edition of poems by Sir David Lindsay, nine printings of Allan Ramsay's The Gentle shepherd between 1743 and 1793, and an edition of Robert Burns ' poetry in 1787, the same year as the Edinburgh edition, followed by reprints in 1789, 1793 and 1800.

In 1787 the North West Company merged with a rival organization, Gregory, McLeod and Co., which brought several more able partners in, including John Gregory, Alexander Mackenzie, and his cousin Roderick Mackenzie.

Gregory & McLeod joined in 1787 They employed Alexander Mackenzie ( explorer ), Peter Pangman and John Ross.

Along with Zorrilla's work ( still performed every year on November 2nd throughout the Spanish-speaking world ), arguably the best known version is Don Giovanni, an opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, first performed in Prague in 1787 ( with Giacomo Casanova probably in the audience ) and itself the source of inspiration for works by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Alexander Pushkin, Søren Kierkegaard, George Bernard Shaw and Albert Camus.

** Alexander Alyabyev, composer ( b. 1787 )

Alexander Hamilton argued in a long speech before the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that the President of the United States should be an elective monarch, ruling for " good behavior " ( i. e., for life, unless impeached ) and with extensive powers.

In 1787, George Washington appointed Wythe, along with Alexander Hamilton and Charles Pinckney, to draw up the rules and procedures for the Constitutional Convention.

In 1787, King was sent to the Federal constitutional convention at Philadelphia where he worked closely with Alexander Hamilton on the Committee of Style and Arrangement to prepare the final draft.

In 1787, Alexander Hamilton, a leading Federalist from New York, wrote the first essay of the Federalist Papers.

During the Russo-Turkish War of 1787 – 1792 the Russian Army commander Alexander Suvorov successfully the fortress of Izmail on December 22, 1790.

It was also here that, in 1789 ( during the Russo – Turkish War of 1787 – 1792 ), an army of Imperial Russian and Habsburg troops, commanded by Alexander Suvorov, defeated the Ottoman forces in the Battle of Rymnik.

In 1787, he was appointed with John Lansing, Jr. and Alexander Hamilton to represent New York at the Philadelphia convention to revise the Articles of Confederation.

They frequently intermarried with other Georgian noble houses and even with the branches of Bagrationi royal dynasty in both western and eastern Georgia ( e. g., Prince David Tsereteli married the sister of Alexander V of Imereti in 1736, while Zurab Tsereteli married his daughter, Kethevan, to the royal prince Ioann of Georgia in 1787 ).

Born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina around 1767, Alexander attended the common schools and then Princeton College, graduating in 1787.

In the battle over the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1787 – 1788, Governor George Clinton in Albany, wishing to preserve his independent power, led the local Anti-Federalists in opposition, with support for the Constitution coming from Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists, largely urbanites who saw opportunity in a stronger national union, and famously published as their manifesto the Federalist Papers in New York City newspapers.

* Alexander Maconochie ( penal reformer ) ( 1787 – 1860 )

His nephew, Robert Yates, represented New York at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, alongside John Lansing, Jr. and Alexander Hamilton.

The Kinnaird Castle ( one of The Nine Castles of Knuckle ), was built in 1570 by Sir Alexander Fraser, 8th laird of Philorth and sold to the Trustees of the Northern lights in 1787, who turned it into a lighthouse.

* Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison The Federalist Papers 1787

Political parties had not been anticipated when the Constitution was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788, even though both Hamilton and Madison played major roles.

* Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton – Paragon ( 1786 ), Spadille ( 1787 ), Young Flora ( 1788 ), Tartar ( 1792 ), Petronius ( 1808 ), Ashton ( 1809 ), William ( 1814 )

In 1787 Robert Hamilton ( 1749-1830 ) described a case of a soldier suffering from nostalgia, who received sensitive and successful treatment:

Hamilton served South Carolina in many public offices including state Representative ( 1787 ), State Senator ( 1794 ), Comptroller ( 1800 ), and the 42nd Governor ( 1804 ).

Hamilton presented his plan to the Convention on June 18, 1787.

* Robert Hamilton ( merchant ) ( 1787 – 1856 ), political figure in Upper Canada

* Lord Claud Hamilton ( 1787 – 1808 ), died unmarried.

In 1787, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson in France for background information on constitutional government to use at the Constitutional Convention.

Simcoe wrote a book on his experiences with the Rangers, titled A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers from the end of the year 1777 to the conclusion of the late American War, which was published in 1787.

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.

Withering wrote two more editions of this work in 1787 and 1792, in collaboration with fellow Lunar Society member Jonathan Stokes, and after his death his son ( also William ) published four more.

In 1787, Goethe wrote ( concerning his own efforts as a librettist ):

Jeremy Bentham wrote a series of thirteen " Letters " addressed to Adam Smith, published in 1787 as Defence of Usury.

Starting around the time he wrote this letter and continuing through the first part of 1787, Leopold's health was failing.

Burns wrote of himself in 1787, " The appellation of a Scotch Bard, is by far my highest pride ; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

In 1787 Thomas Jefferson, who was then ambassador to France, wrote to James Madison proposing that the U. S. Constitution, then under consideration by the States, be amended to include " trial by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land opposed the law of admiralty and not by the laws of Nations not by the law of admiralty ".

In 1787 one commentator wrote that nowhere within of London was there a village so pleasant or with such varied views.

* John Henry Clarke wrote that " In 1787, Hahnemann discovered the best test for arsenic and other poisons in wine, having pointed out the unreliable nature of the " Wurtemberg test ," which had been in use up to that date.

During 1787 he wrote three letters on John Hawkins's Life of Johnson for the Gentleman's Magazine, which were reprinted by Thomas Kidd in his Tracts and Criticisms of Porson, and in a volume of Porson's Correspondence.

Benjamin Franklin wrote in a 1787 letter on the project of mail packets between the United States and France:

In 1779 he was named the Bernese bailiff of Saanen or Gessenay ( here he wrote his Lettres pastorales sur une contrie de la Suisse, published in German in 1781 ), and in 1787 was transferred in a similar capacity to Nyon, from which post he had to retire after taking part ( 1791 ) in a festival to celebrate the destruction of the Bastille.

On their wedding anniversary in 1787 Hester wrote:

He wrote a long poem published in two parts called The Wrongs of Africa ( 1787 – 1788 ), and entered into a controversy with an ex-Roman Catholic priest called Fr Raymond Harris, who tried to justify the slave trade through the Bible ( and was generously paid for his efforts by Liverpool businessmen involved with the slave trade ).

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.

Samuel Stanhope Smith wrote an essay titled Essay on the Causes of Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species in 1787, in the essay Smith claimed that Negro pigmentation was nothing more than a huge freckle that covered the whole body as a result of an oversupply of bile, which was caused by tropical climates.

Because few states participated, the Annapolis Convention did not deem “ it advisable to proceed on the business of their mission .” Leaders including Virginians Edmund Randolph and James Madison wrote a unanimous report suggesting that a convention of delegates from all thirteen states meet at Philadelphia in May 1787.

On Sunday 28 October 1787, Wilberforce wrote in his diary: " God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

Mirza Rajab Ali Beg Surur ( 1787 – 1867 ) wrote in Fasanah-i Ibrat that ‘ a great mosque was built on the spot where Sita ki Rasoi is situated.

Sketches for the finale are found among the exercises Beethoven wrote while studying counterpoint under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger in the spring of 1787.

It commemorates the contributions of George Mason, an important American Founder who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights and served as a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.