1786

Events from the year 1786 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
* President of the Continental Congress: John Hancock (until June 6), Nathaniel Gorham (June–November)
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 3 – The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the United States of America and the Choctaw Nation.
* January 10 – The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the United States of America and the Chickasaw Nation.
* January 31 – The Treaty of Fort Finney, is signed on January 31, 1786, between the United States and certain leaders of the Shawnee.
* March 26 – Columbia, South Carolina is chartered as the first planned city in the United States.
===April - June===
* June 25 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
===July - September===
* August 1 – James Rumsey tests his first steam boat in the Potomac River at Shepherdstown Virginia (now West Virginia).
* August 29 – Shays' Rebellion begins in Massachusetts.
* September 11 – Annapolis Convention begins.
* September 14 – Annapolis Convention ends.
===October - December===
* November 7 – The oldest musical organization in the United States (the Stoughton Musical Society) is founded.
* December 4 – Mission Santa Barbara is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 10th mission in the California mission chain.
==Memoriam==
* January 14 – Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (aged 72; Hampton Falls, NH, USA)
* March 11 – Charles Humphreys, delegate to the Continental Congress (aged 71; Haverford, PA, USA)
* June 19 – Nathanael Greene, major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (aged 43; Chatham County, GA, USA)
* October 25 – Charles Mason, surveyor (aged 58; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* December 1 – Nonhelema, Shawnee chieftess, sister of Cornstalk (aged 68; PA, USA)
==External links==
* 1786 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 1