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Floyer Sydenham
1787Apr, 1

Floyer Sydenham

Floyer Sydenham, English scholar and academic (b. 1710)
Floyer Sydenham (1710 – 1 April 1787) was an English scholar of Ancient Greek.

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    Moons of Uranus

    William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
  • 13May

    Arthur Phillip

    Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
  • 20Jun

    Federal Convention

    Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
  • 6Aug

    Constitutional Convention (United States)

    Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • 12Dec

    United States Constitution

    Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution, five days after Delaware became the first.