1786

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  – 1780s –  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1783 1784 1785 – 1786 – 1787 1788 1789

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  August 8: Mont Blanc climbed for the first time.

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  Östersund seen from Frösön, Jämtland, Sweden.

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  December 4: Mission Santa Barbara is founded.

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  Maria Pavlovna of Russia

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  Portrait of Davy Crockett

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  Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

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  Frederick II of Prussia

1786 (MDCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1786th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 786th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1786, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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.
• August 29– Shays Rebellion begins
• September 2 – Hurricane in England.
• 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.
• December 4 – The Mission Santa Barbara, was founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the tenth mission in the California mission chain.

• 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 16 – Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Grand duchess of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach (d. 1859)
• 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 10 – William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
• 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)