1786
Events
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January–March
April–June
July–September
- July 14 – Convention of London between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain: British settlements on the Mosquito Coast of Central America are to be evacuated; Spain expands the territory available to the British in Belize on the Yucatán Peninsula, for cutting mahogany.
- July 31 – The 'Kilmarnock volume' of Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published in Scotland.
- August
- James Rumsey tests his first steamboat on the Potomac River, at Shepherdstown, Virginia.
- The Cabinet of Great Britain approves the establishment of a penal colony, at Botany Bay in Australia.
- August 1 – Caroline Herschel discovers a comet (the first discovered by a woman) from England.
- August 8 – Mont Blanc is climbed for the first time, by Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat.
- August 11 – Captain Francis Light acquires the island of Penang from the Sultan of Kedah on behalf of the British East India Company, renaming it Prince of Wales Island in honour of the heir to the British throne, and establishing the settlement of George Town. This is the first colony of the British Empire in Southeast Asia.
- August 17 – Frederick William II, the paternal nephew of Frederick the Great, becomes King of Prussia.
- August 18 – The Kingdom of Denmark-Norway charters six settlements in Iceland to trade with it, thus ending the DanishâÂÂIcelandic Trade Monopoly, and founding ReykjavÃÂk.
- August 29 – Shays' Rebellion begins in Massachusetts.
- SeptemberâÂÂDecember – Goethe undertakes his Italian Journey (published in 1817).
- September 2 – A hurricane strikes Barbados.
- September 11âÂÂ14 - The Annapolis Convention is held by delegates from six of the 13 states (Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and New York) resulting in the scheduling of the Philadelphia Convention to draft a national constitution.
- September 14 – Connecticut cedes to the United States all of its claims to lands between the 41st and 42nd parallels north and west of the Connecticut Western Reserve.
- September 25 – The mine of Huancavelica in the Peruvian Andes collapses killing more than a hundred people. The event is a major setback for quicksilver production in the Spanish Empire.
- September 26 – Eden Agreement: A commercial treaty is signed between the Kingdoms of Great Britain and France.
October–December
Date unknown
Births
- February 16 – Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach (d. 1859)
- February 26 РFran̤ois Arago, French astronomer, physicist and politician (d. 1853)
- February 24 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1859)
- March 4 – Agustina de Aragón, Spanish heroine (d. 1857)
- March 22 – Joachim Lelewel, Polish historian (d. 1861)
- March 25 – Giovanni Battista Amici, Italian astronomer, microscopist and botanist (d. 1863)
- April 16 – John Franklin, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1847)
- April 28 – Elizabeth Andrew Warren, Cornish botanist, marine algolologist (d. 1864)
- May 29 – Alexander Bryan Johnson, American philosopher (d. 1867)
- June 13 – Winfield Scott, American general, presidential candidate (d. 1866)
- June 26 – Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (d. 1855)
- August 17
- Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (d. 1836)
- Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
- August 25 – King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
- August 31 РMichel Eug̬ne Chevreul, French chemist (d. 1889)
- September 10 - Nicolás Bravo, 3-time President of Mexico (d. 1854)
- September 11 - Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
- September 18
- King Christian VIII of Denmark (d. 1848)
- Justinus Kerner, German physician (d. 1862)
- September 24 – Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur (d. 1875)
- September 29 – Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
- November 18
- Henry Bishop, English composer (d. 1855)
- Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
- December 12 – William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)
Date unknown
Deaths
- January 4 – Moses Mendelssohn, Jewish philosopher (b. 1729)
- January 7 – Jean-ÃÂtienne Guettard, French physician, scientist (b. 1715)
- January 14 – Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
- January 26 – Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (b. 1699)
- February 25 – Thomas Wright, British astronomer (b. 1711)
- February 28 – John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
- March 11 – Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)
- April 10 – John Byron, British naval officer (b. 1723)
- April 20 – John Goodricke, English astronomer (b. 1764)
- May 1 – Benjamin Waller, American politician (b. 1716)
- May 2 – Petronella Johanna de Timmerman, Dutch poet, scientist (b. 1723)
- May 15 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish scientist and agronomist, first female member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (b. 1724)
- May 19 – John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)
- August 17 – King Frederick II of Prussia ("Frederick the Great") (b. 1712)
- August 27 – Carl Fredrik Scheffer, Swedish politician (b. 1715)
- September 5 – Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
- September 17 – Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese shÃ
Âgun (b. 1737)
- September 18 – Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Italian luthier (b. 1711)
- October 2 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (b. 1725)
- October 5 – Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, German botanist (b. 1714)
- October 17 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
- October 20 – Humphrey Sturt, British architect (b. 1725)
- October 31 – Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Second daughter of George II of Great Britain (b. 1711)
- November 30 – Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish military leader who aided the United States in its quest for independence, in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1746)
- December 26 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic, dramatist (b. 1713)
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