1786

1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

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)
The town of Martinsborough, North Carolina, itself named for Royal Governor Josiah Martin in 1771, is renamed Greenesville in honor of United States General Nathaniel Greene by the North Carolina General Assembly. Greenesville is later shortened to Greenville.

November 7 - The oldest musical organization in the United States was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
November 30 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.

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 - Martin W. Bates, U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869)
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)
Alexander Bryan Johnson, American philosopher (d. 1867)
Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
Jean Francois Barriere, French historian
Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho (d. 1870)

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)
April 10 - John Byron, British naval officer (b. 1723)
May 19 - John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)
May 21 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (b. 1742)
May 25 - Pedro III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1717)
August 17 - King Frederick the Great of Prussia (b. 1712)
September 5 - Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
October 2 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (b. 1725)
October 17 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
December 26 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (b. 1713)

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