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 art 1786 in literature 1786 in music 1786 in science List of state leaders in 1786 List of religious leaders in 1786

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

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
Frenchmen Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard are the first to climb Mont Blanc
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

January 8 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (+ 1844)
January 23 - Auguste de Montferrand, architect
February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm, philologist, folklorist (+ 1859)
August 17 - David "Davy" Crockett
September 18 - King Christian VIII of Denmark
September 24 - Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur.
Henry Bishop, English composer
Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer
Carl Maria von Weber, German composer
Ludwig I, King of Bavaria
Balusvami Dikshitar, brother of composer Muttuswami Dikshitar and introducer of the violin into Carnatic music