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In Britain, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp formed the "Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade" with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.
January 11 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
February 4 - Shays' Rebellion fails
May 13 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
May 14 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States.
May 25 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States (George Washington is presiding).
July 13 - The United States 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.
September 17 - United States Constitution adopted
December 7 - Delaware ratifies the Constitution and becomes the first U.S. state.
December 12 - Pennsylvania becomes the second U.S. state.
December 18 - New Jersey becomes the third U.S. state.

1787 (liturature) David_DeLancey@yahoo.com - May 6th, 2006
Tiltle i David George DeLancey use "ART ECONOMICS HISTORY" ok the year is 1787 there's a confermation about the economics of history and the art of it's task , let me start with the word delamination perhaps used with a capital apearance D and L ok this means to seperate and do of so it seems the security of the word is vocational to it's uses during ofcourse the addmittance towards other word's and there meaning's ,: since i'm comunicating with a century wich may not have used the vocational as a fuuly acquired word and sindicate or variation toward's read more » messages 1

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