America - 1787AD
In 1787AD:
The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia to draw up a U.S. Constitution.
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison wrote the first Federalist essays.
American inventor John Fitch launched a steam-powered ferry boat on the Delaware.
Royall Tyler's
The Contrast
becomes the first stage comedy to be produced in the U.S.
The Continental Congress excluded slavery from the Northwest Territory.
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