1786
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Years: 1783 1784 1785 - 1786 - 1787 1788 1789 |
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Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s |
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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1786 in topic: Lists of leaders: |
1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- May 21 - Trial of the Necklace affair ends in Paris
- August 8 - Mont Blanc was climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat.
- September 2 – Hurricane in England.
- November 7 - The oldest musical organization in the United States was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
- Choctaw Treaty
- Chickasaw Treaty
- Robert Burns publishes Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
- Francis Light acquires the island of Penang from the Sultan of Kedah on behalf of the British East India Company. It is the first British colony in South-East Asia.
- Anglo-Spanish treaty gives Belize to Britain
- First ship of convicts leaves Britain for Botany Bay, Australia - 820 out of 1138 aboard are convicts
- The trade with Iceland is opened to all Danish and Norwegian traders.
- The Mozart opera "The Marriage of Figaro" is premiered in Vienna
- Goethe undertakes his 'Italian Journey' throughout September-December (published in 1817)
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Births
- January 8 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (d. 1844)
- January 12 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
- January 23 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
- February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1859)
- March 22 - Joachim Lelewel, Polish historian (d. 1861)
- June 13 - Winfield Scott, American general and Presidential candidate (d. 1866)
- August 17 - David "Davy" Crockett, American frontiersman (d. 1836)
- August 25 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
- September 11 - Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
- September 18 - King Christian VIII of Denmark (d. 1848)
- September 24 - Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur
- December 12 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)
- Henry Bishop, English composer
- Kim Jeonghui, Korean epigrapher (d. 1856)
- Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
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Deaths
- January 7 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
- January 14 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
- February 28 - John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
- March 11 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)
- May 19 - John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)
- May 21 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (b. 1742)
- August 17 - King Frederick the Great of Prussia (b. 1712)
- September 5 - Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
- December 26 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (b. 1713)