1786
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 EnglandChoctaw Treaty Chickasaw TreatyRobert 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
BirthsJanuary 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, architect (d. 1858)February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm, philologist, folklorist (d. 1859)March 22 - Joachim Lelewel, Polish nationalist historian (d. 1861)June 13 - Winfield Scott, American general and presidential candidate (d. 1866)August 17 - David "Davy" Crockett (d. 1836)August 25 - Ludwig I, King of Bavaria (d. 1868)September 18 - King Christian VIII of DenmarkSeptember 24 - Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur.November 18/December 18 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composerHenry Bishop, English composerSeptember 11 - Friedrich Kuhlau, German composerDecember 12 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)Balusvami Dikshitar, brother of composer Muttuswami Dikshitar and introducer of the violin into Carnatic music
Deaths May 19 - John Stanley, English composer May 21 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist August 17 - Friedrich II the Great, or Frederick the Great, of Prussia
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