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

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

The next year he was transferred to nearby York Factory, and over the next few years spent time as a clerk at Cumberland House and South Branch House before arriving at Manchester House in 1787.

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 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.

" Partly at Madison's instigation, a national convention was called in 1787.

On the 1787 trip to the Isle of Arran he found his first example of Hutton's Unconformity to the north of Newton Point near Lochranza, but the limited view meant that the condition of the underlying strata was not clear enough for him, and he incorrectly thought that the strata were conformable at a depth below the exposed outcrop.

Later in 1787 Hutton noted what is now known as the Hutton Unconformity at Inchbonny, Jedburgh, in layers of sedimentary rock.

Official persecution ended in 1787 ; a faculty of Protestant theology was established at Montauban in 1808, and the Lausanne seminary was finally closed on 18 April 1812.

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.

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

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.

1787 ( fragment 1: see the third pair of images on this page ), but little could be made of them, since the indications of poem-end ( placed at the beginnings of the lines ) were lost, and scholars could only guess where one poem ended and another began.

Originating from conflicting state and federal legislation passed between 1787 and 1805, the dispute resulted from poor understanding of geographical features of the Great Lakes at the time.

On February 21, 1787, the Articles Congress called a convention of state delegates at Philadelphia to propose a plan of government.

He is thought to have performed Mozart's operas while playing in the court orchestra at Bonn, and he traveled to Vienna in 1787 hoping to study with the older composer.

In 1889, for his final examination at the end of his course of study, he submitted his opera Gina, with a libretto by Enrico Golisciani which was adapted from the old French play Catherine, ou La Croix d ' or by Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville ( 1787 — 1865 ).

It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga ( now called the Estates Theatre ) on October 29, 1787.

He taught natural history at the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel ( 1778 – 1784 ), and later at Academy of Vilna ( Vilnius University ) ( 1784 – 1787 ).

In 1787, he was given a paid position in the court of the Austrian Emperor, as Kammercompositeur (" chamber composer "), but authority in matters musical at the court was exercised primarily by Antonio Salieri.

After these were completed, other two years were employed in finishing the monument, and it was finally opened to public inspection in 1787.

After that, censuses followed somewhat regularly in 1787, 1801, and 1834, and between 1840 and 1860, the censuses were taken every five years, and then every ten years until 1890.

# After years of frustration, an agreement was reached in 1787 to organize a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia with the mission of writing and proposing a number of amendments to the Articles of Confederation in order to improve the form of government.

The Italian priest Maurizio Garzoni published the first Kurdish grammar titled Grammatica e Vocabolario della Lingua Kurda in Rome in 1787 after eighteen years of missionary work among the Kurds of Amadiya.

During his years in Kendal, Dalton contributed solutions of problems and questions on various subjects to the Gentlemen's and Ladies ' Diaries, and in 1787 he began to keep a meteorological diary in which, during the succeeding 57 years, he entered more than 200, 000 observations.

His father died when he was just three years old, and he was adopted by his uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1787 – 1862 ).

Freedom to worship and civil rights for non-Catholics in France were not restored until the signing of the Edict of Versailles, also known as the Edict of Tolerance, by Louis XVI 102 years later, on 7 November 1787.

* the first steamboat to carry a person ( built by John Fitch in 1787, twenty years before Fulton introduced regular steamboat service ).

Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk was known for his restoration work and improvements to the castle beginning in 1787 and continuing for a number of years, as he desired to live there and entertain his visitors there.

The settlers encountered some struggles over the years, most notably in the winter of 1787.

Kauffman's 1787 painting of Goethe, then 38 years old

For three years, from 1787 to 1790, Dissenters had been attempting to convince Parliament to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts which limited the civil rights of Dissenters.

His fourth and final tour of English prisons began in March 1787 and two years later he published The State of the Prisons in England, and An Account of the Principal Lazarettos of Europe.

He returned to France in 1785 where he spent the following two years compiling his notes and writing his Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie, which was published in 1787, and Considérations sur la guerre des Turcs et de la Russie in 1788.

After five years, in 1787, they found themselves with means enough to travel, and set out for Rome, where they took up their quarters in the Via Felice.

Thomas Gage ( 1719 or 1720 – 2 April 1787 ) was a British general, best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as military commander in the early days of the American Revolution.

" After two years of study in Italy he returned to Edinburgh in 1787, and began a successful career as a portrait painter.

In the following few years, several different classes of increasing must weight were introduced, and the original Spätlese was further elaborated, first into Auslese in 1787 and later Eiswein in 1858 ( although Eiswein is usually made from grapes not affected by Botrytis ).

After attending the Royal High School for six years, he studied at the University of Glasgow from 1787 to May 1789, and at Queen's College, Oxford, from September 1791 to June 1792.

Nikola Bošković ( 1642 – 1721 ), the father of the famous Ragusan scientist Ruđer Bošković ( 1711 – 1787 ), migrated to Novi Pazar, where he spent the last years of his life.

Allen negotiated a price and purchased this lot in 1787 to build a church, but it was years before they had a building.

Although strict enforcement of the revocation was relaxed during the reign of Louis XV, it was not until 102 years later, in 1787, when Louis XVI signed the Edict of Versailles – known as the Edict of Tolerance – that civil status and rights to form congregations by Protestants were restored.