1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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 - 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)
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)
- 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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