* Szatmary, David P. Shay's Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection ( 1984 ), 1787 in Massachusetts

For the salon of 1787, David exhibited his famous Death of Socrates.

File: David-The Death of Socrates. jpg | Jacques-Louis David, 1787, The Death of Socrates, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David ( 1787 )

The first artificial diffraction gratings for visible light were constructed by David Rittenhouse in 1787, and Joseph von Fraunhofer in 1821.

* David Wemyss, soi disant 6th Earl of Wemyss ( 1721 – 1787 ) ( attainted 1746 )

A fort and stage coach station were built there by David Campbell in 1787.

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.

French painter Jacques-Louis David | David portrayed the philosopher in The Death of Socrates ( 1787 ).

The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David ( 1787 )

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates 1787, 129. 5 cm × 196. 2 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

* 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.

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 ).

HBC trader David Thompson wintered at a Peigan encampment on the Bow River in 1787 – 1788, and in 1800 returned to the area as a North West Company employee.

Claudius was the eldest son of David Smith ( 1701 – 1787 ), a respected tailor, cattleman, miller, constable, clergyman, and finally judge in Brookhaven, New York.

* Orange County Genealogical Society Early Orange County Wills ( 1991 ) vol II, p. 1 of the Will of David Smith ( 1701 – 1787 ) of Smith's Clove, and the Will itself at: Liber A, page 5

He soon returned, however, to his native village, and followed for some time the profession of an advocate ; but in 1787 he succeeded his uncle Antoine David as printer to the parlement.

The style was popular across Scotland and was applied to many relatively modest dwellings by architects such as William Burn ( 1789 – 1870 ), David Bryce ( 1803 – 76 ), Edward Blore ( 1787 – 1879 ), Edward Calvert ( c. 1847 – 1914 ) and Robert Stodart Lorimer ( 1864 – 1929 ) and in urban contexts, including the building of Cockburn Street in Edinburgh ( from the 1850s ) as well as the National Wallace Monument at Stirling ( 1859 – 69 ).

Although these 1787 settlers did not establish Freetown, which was founded in 1792, the bicentennial of Freetown was celebrated in 1987.

The addresses changed several times ; Number 10 was " Number 5 " for a while ; it did not become " 10 " until 1787.

It should be noted that these 1787 settlers did not establish Freetown.

However, the situation did not settle soon so that the first church was not built until 1787 and the first formal parish was not established until 1822.

An essay on Protestant marriages ( 1787 ) did much to procure for them the civil recognition in France.

Around 1787 Charles did an experiment where he filled 5 balloons to the same volume with different gases.

He participated to the full in the intellectual ferment, became friendly with Benjamin Constant, but did not quite neglect his medical studies, and took his degree in 1787.

It was only in 1787 that the parlement of Paris declared that it could not register the new taxes, the land-tax and stamp duty ( subvention territoriale and impôt du timbre ), as they did not know whether they would be submitted to by the country, and that the consent of the representatives of the tax-payers must be asked.

Life as a civil servant did not suit Ney, and he enlisted in the Colonel-General Hussar Regiment in 1787.

Wythe did not remarry after Elizabeth's death in 1787.

A new war, with Turkey, broke out in 1787 ( see Austro-Turkish War ( 1787-1791 ) The generals charged with prosecuting this war did badly, and Laudon was thus called for the last time into the field.

Walter Mould was also authorized by New Jersey to strike state coppers with this motto and did so beginning in early 1787 in Morristown, New Jersey.

In New Orleans he was contracted by local merchants to take a cargo of wood, salted meat, cod and flour to Isle de France ( now Mauritius ), which he did in the Josephine ( also called Pepita ), departing New Orleans on 14 July 1786 and arriving at Isle de France on 27 March 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.

Caswell was also chosen to be one of North Carolina's delegates to the United States Constitutional Convention of 1787, but he did not attend.

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.

Since Georgia knew of this yet did nothing about it, the U. S. Supreme Court ( which has original jurisdiction in such matters ) granted this land to South Carolina, although the Treaty of Beaufort ( 1787 ) explicitly specified that the river's islands belonged to Georgia.

Along with his family, Edwards brought a number of slaves, whom he did not free even though the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 had made slavery illegal in the territory.

The first two Uranian moons, discovered in 1787, did not receive names until 1852, a year after two more moons had been discovered.

Salisbury Sound was named by Captain Nathaniel Portlock in 1787, in honor of Bishop Salisbury, even though Portlock did not ever see the sound itself.

Louis XVI eventually did confirm the act and register it with the Parlement of Paris, but not until 6 September 1787.

After the war's end, he stayed in the army and served in the cavalry during the Indian Wars as did his brother Civil War brevet brigadier general Edwin Vose Sumner, Jr. Samuel's name commemorates his father's mentor and friend, Samuel Appleton Storrow ( 1787 – 1837 ), previously a Judge Advocate Major in the U. S. Army.

State delegates did not return to Independence Hall in Philadelphia until the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787 ; however, remained the official capital even during the convention.

The evidence for this is circumstantial and difficult to interpret ; Hardwick ( 2000 ) suggests that if such a relationship did exist, then it would most likely have been as a result of the Duke's affair in 1787 with Susanna Hussey, Countess of Tyrconnel.