1787 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1787?
- January 11, 1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
- January 25, 1787 – American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor’s prisons.
- February 3, 1787 – Shays’ Rebellion is crushed.
- May 13, 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the “First Fleet”) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
- May 14, 1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
- June 20, 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
- July 13, 1787 – The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
- August 6, 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
- September 17, 1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- September 28, 1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
- October 1, 1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
- October 29, 1787 – Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
- December 7, 1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- December 12, 1787 – Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution five days after Delaware became the first.
- December 18, 1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
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