In 1787 a bishop of Nova Scotia was appointed with a jurisdiction over all of British North America ; in time several more colleagues were appointed to other cities in present-day Canada.

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.

In 1787, he was admitted to the bar, and moved to Jonesborough, in what was then the Western District of North Carolina.

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

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

War was once more declared against Russia in 1787 and in the following year the Russians were joined by Austria.

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was originally intended to be performed in honor of Anton and his wife for a visit to Prague on 14 October 1787, as they traveled between Dresden and Vienna, and librettos were printed with dedication to them.

Mozart complained bitterly of the intrigues surrounding this incident in a letter to his friend Gottfried von Jacquin that was written in stages between 15 October and 25 October 1787.

The Northwest Ordinance, which was approved by the Congress of the Confederation in 1787, guaranteed " judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.

Its first Lieutenant-Governor was Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres ( 1784 – 1787 ) and his successor was William Macarmick ( 1787 ).

The University now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University.

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.

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.

In 1787, David did not become the Director of the French Academy in Rome, which was a position he wanted dearly.

Allen and his family moved to Burlington in 1787, which was no longer a small frontier settlement but a small town, and much more to Allen's liking than the larger community that Bennington had become.

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 ).

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.

He made an exploratory trip to the western frontier in 1784, was persuaded to attend the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, and was unanimously elected president of the Convention.

On Pott's resignation of the office of surgeon of St Bartholomew's, Sir Charles Blicke, who was assistant-surgeon, succeeded him, and Abernethy was elected assistant-surgeon in 1787.

He made a failed attempt to be elected to the post of Academy Director in 1787.

In 1787 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnaean Society in recognition of his contribution to botany.

He was now elected a member of the Académie française, and everything seemed to promise a quiet and peaceful old age spent in the bosom of his family and occupied with scientific and literary pursuits, when the king in his difficulties wished for the support of his name, and summoned him back to the ministry in 1787.

He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1787.

He was elected Vice-President of the Council, a position comparable to that of Lieutenant Governor, on October 31, 1787.

Washington was elected to the State legislature from 1787 to 1804 but refused to run for State Governor because he, in his words, “ was not born a Carolinian .” Washington also accepted a post of brigadier general commanding the Seventh Brigade of the South Carolina State Militia in 1794.

He was made a grandee of Spain and, in 1787, he was elected to the Assembly of Notables.

Samuel Allyne Otis ( son of James Otis, Sr., father of Harrison Gray Otis and brother of prominent revolutionary James Otis, Jr. and America's first female playwright Mercy Otis Warren ), a Delegate from Massachusetts ; born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass., November 24, 1740 ; was graduated from Harvard College in 1759 ; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston ; member of the state house of representatives in 1776 ; member of the Board of War in 1776 ; collector of clothing for the Continental Army in 1777 ; member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention ; again a member of the state house of representatives 1784-1787 and elected speaker of the house in 1784 ; Member of the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788 ; elected Secretary of the United States Senate on April 8, 1789, and served until his death in Washington, D. C., April 22, 1814 ; interment in Congressional Cemetery.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787 and accepted an honorary vice presidency at London's charitable Foundling Hospital in 1799.

He served on the Committee of Safety, and after active warfare slowed, under the new government he was elected to the New York Assembly for 1781 – 1785 and 1787.

The General Assembly elected Spaight a delegate to the Continental Congress between 1782 and 1785 ; he then served in the North Carolina House of Commons from 1785 to 1787, and was named Speaker of the House.

Martin was elected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia.

He was elected to the French Academy in 1787.

After serving as President of South Carolina, Lowndes was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1787 and represented the parishes of St. Philip and St. Michael until 1790.

On March 8, 1787, Parsons, Putnam, and Cutler were chosen as directors, and Winthrop Sargent was elected secretary.

On August 30, 1787, James Mitchell Varnum was elected as a director, and Richard Platt as treasurer.

Strong was elected as a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention that drafted the U. S. Constitution in 1787.

He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1787.

He was elected as a delegate to the second and sixth statehood conventions in 1785 and 1788, respectively, and was a trustee of the city of Danville in 1787.

After the war he was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates, where he served from 1785 to 1787.

In 1782, on the presentation of his college, he was admitted to the rectory of Stoke Abbas in Dorset, which he exchanged for Alton Barnes in Wiltshire in 1787, and on 2 April 1784 he was elected the public orator of Oxford University.

James Madison drafted the Virginia Plan in 1787 and the Bill of Rights in 1789.

The Constitutional Convention in 1787 used the Virginia Plan as the basis for discussions, as the Virginia delegation had proposed it first.

It was named for William Grayson, delegate to the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787 and one of the first two U. S. Senators from Virginia.

The Virginia Plan, issued at the outset of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, proposed to pair recall with rotation in office and to apply these dual principles to the lower house of the national legislature.

The town was established in 1787 by American Revolutionary War Lieutenant Colonel and Virginia statesman, John Leven Powell.

Charles Town was officially chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in January 1787.

A charter was passed through the Virginia General Assembly on December 5, 1787, a copy of which follows:

It was part of the land which the United States allowed to be annexed to Virginia when the Northwest Territory was being organized in 1787.

In 1787, the United States gave Virginia this portion of lands west of the Appalachians, and some to Pennsylvania at its western edge, to settle their claims.

Charles was born to Henry ( 1729 – 1787 ) and Lucy ( Grymes ) Lee on his father's plantation of Leesylvania in Prince William County, Virginia.

It was, however, Edmund Randolph, the Virginia governor at the time, who officially put it before the convention on May 29, 1787, in the form of 15 resolutions.

Category: 1787 in Virginia

At the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, both James Madison of Virginia and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina submitted proposals that would allow Congress the power to grant copyright for a limited time.

At the Constitutional Convention 1787 both James Madison of Virginia and Charles C. Pinckney of South Carolina submitted proposals that would allow Congress the power to grant copyright for a limited time.

With the exception of the Separate Baptist in Christ, the denominational name Separate Baptist disappeared in many area of the country with the formal and informal agreements of union between the Regular Baptists and Separate Baptists, beginning in Virginia in 1787, in the Carolinas in 1789, and in Kentucky in 1797 & 1801.

Lee was born near Dumfries, Virginia, the son of Henry Lee II ( 1730 – 1787 ) of " Leesylvania " and Lucy Grymes ( 1734 – 1792 ) the " Lowland Beauty.

* John Robertson ( congressman ) ( 1787 – 1873 ), politician and lawyer from Virginia

On May 29, 1787, Edmund Randolph of the Virginia delegation proposed the creation of a bicameral legislature.

After a brief honeymoon on Long Island, the newlyweds returned to New York to live with her father until Congress adjourned. Their first child, Eliza, was born in late 1786 or early 1787 in Virginia.

Nineteen delegates chose not to accept election or attend the debates ; for example, Patrick Henry of Virginia thought that state politics were far more interesting and important than national politics, though during the ratification controversy of 1787 – 1788 he claimed, " I smelled a rat.

Likewise, at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, Virginia delegate George Mason said that judges " could declare an unconstitutional law void.

John Robertson ( April 13, 1787 – July 5, 1873 ) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from the U. S. state of Virginia.

The Virginia legislature sent him as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788.