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.

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 ).

Visiting in 1787, the geologist James Hutton found his first example of an unconformity there and this spot is one of the most famous places in the study of geology.

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 ).

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 ( 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.

At the redistribution of dioceses ( 1787 to 1791 ) not all the parishes in Carniola were included in the Diocese of Ljubljana, but this was accomplished in 1833, by taking two deaneries from the Diocese of Trieste, one from Gorizia, and one parish from the Diocese of Lavant, so as to include all the territory within the political boundaries of the crownland.

He was a prolific writer, and the signs of his future socialism are contained in a letter of 21 March 1787, one of a series-mainly on literature-addressed to the secretary of the Academy of Arras.

Until 1787, the złoty was tied to the Conventionsthaler of the Holy Roman Empire, with 8 złoty equal to one Conventionsthaler and, consequently, 4 groschen equal to the złoty.

In the period spent abroad, from 13 March 1787 until the end of 1789, Piazzi became acquainted with the major French and English astronomers of his time and was able to have the famous altazimuthal circle made by Jesse Ramsden, one of the most skilled instrument-makers of the 18th century.

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.

* John Brown ( 1738 – 1812 ), militia captain during the Revolutionary War, served as one of the state Treasurers ( 1782 – 1784 ), and served in the North Carolina state legislature ( 1784 – 1787 ).

In 1787 the designer of Carlton House, Henry Holland, was employed to enlarge the existing building, which became one wing of the Marine Pavilion, flanking a central rotunda, which contained only three main rooms, a breakfast room, dining room and library, fitted out in Holland's French-influenced neoclassical style, with decorative paintings by Biagio Rebecca.

In 1787 he became one of the earliest outside France to convert to the new antiphlogistic theory of Lavoisier, though he remained skeptical about the nomenclature of the new theory.

The general store was originally built in 1787 making it one of, if not the oldest General Store in America ( a past owner claimed to have not found an older store ).

Scattered resistance continued until June 1787, with the single most significant action being an incident in Sheffield in late February, where 30 rebels were wounded ( one mortally ) in a skirmish with government troops.

He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

For several months in 1787, Gorham served as one of the Massachusetts delegates to the United States Constitutional Convention.

The earliest settlers on the section of bottomland that would one day become Philippi were William Anglin ( as early as 1783 or ' 84 ) and Daniel Booth ( 1787 ).

*" Turning Points: How the Ordinance of 1787 was drafted, by one of its authors ", Wisconsin Historical Society

On the one hand, the famous Gorham judgment was the outcome of his refusal to give the living of Brampford Speke to George Cornelius Gorham ( 1787 – 1857

Ohio petitions to gain statehood, and the northern boundary is set by the Ohio constitution as the Ordinance Line of 1787 with one proviso: If the line intersected Lake Erie to the east of the mouth of the Maumee River, then " with the assent of Congress of the United States, the northern boundary of this State shall be established by, and extended to a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami Bay.

William was a Tea Dealer, though Elizabeth is credited as being the one with " the financial acumen which had enabled money both to be acquired and prudently managed: it was a quality which perhaps neither of the sons inherited ".. William and Elizabeth lived in Plashet House, a mansion in East Ham, which passed into the hands of William Storrs Fry in 1787.

* John Brown ( theologian ) ( 1722 – 1787 ), Scottish clergyman and Biblical commentator

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.

In 1787, Alexander Hamilton wrote: "... The science of politics like most other sciences has received great improvement.

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 ".

* 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:

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

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.