1786

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)

 Deaths 



nv:1751 – 1800