1786

Years: 1783 1784 1785 - 1786 - 1787 1788 1789

Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1786 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 1786 MDCCLXXXVI Ab urbe condita 2539 Armenian calendar 1235 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԵ Assyrian calendar 6536 Balinese saka calendar 1707–1708 Bengali calendar 1192–1193 Berber calendar 2736 British Regnal year 26 Geo. 3 – 27 Geo. 3 Buddhist calendar 2330 Burmese calendar 1148 Byzantine calendar 7294–7295 Chinese calendar 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4483 or 4276     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4484 or 4277 Coptic calendar 1502–1503 Discordian calendar 2952 Ethiopian calendar 1778–1779 Hebrew calendar 5546–5547 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1842–1843  - Shaka Samvat 1707–1708  - Kali Yuga 4886–4887 Holocene calendar 11786 Igbo calendar 786–787 Iranian calendar 1164–1165 Islamic calendar 1200–1201 Japanese calendar Tenmei 6 (天明６年) Javanese calendar 1712–1713 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days Korean calendar 4119 Minguo calendar 126 before ROC 民前126年 Nanakshahi calendar 318 Thai solar calendar 2328–2329 Tibetan calendar 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1912 or 1531 or 759     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1913 or 1532 or 760

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 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)

Deaths

• 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)