1786
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| Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s | |
| Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century | |
1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
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
- 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)
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 18 - King Christian VIII of Denmark (d. 1848)
- September 24 - Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur
- November 18/December 18 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
- Henry Bishop, English composer
- September 11 - Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
- December 12 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)
- Balusvami Dikshitar, Indian composer
- Kim Jeonghui, Korean epigrapher (d. 1856)
Deaths
- May 19 - John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)
- May 21 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (b. 1742)
- August 17 - Frederick the Great of Prussia (b. 1712)af:1786
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