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1786 Calendar

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•  January 16, 1786 – The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
•  May 1, 1786 – Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
•  June 25, 1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
•  June 29, 1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
•  August 8, 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
•  August 29, 1786 – Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
•  September 11, 1786 – The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
•  November 7, 1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
•  November 30, 1786 – 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. Consequently, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
•  December 29, 1786 – French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.

•  January 8, 1786 – Nicholas Biddle, American banking executive (d. 1844)
•  January 11, 1786 – Joseph Jackson Lister, English opticist and physicist (d. 1869)
•  February 24, 1786 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1859)
•  May 15, 1786 – General Dimitris Plapoutas, Greek War of Independence figure (d. 1864)
•  June 21, 1786 – Charles Edward Horn, British musician (d. 1849)
•  July 9, 1786 – Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France, daughter of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette (d. 1787)
•  July 24, 1786 – Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
•  August 17, 1786 – Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
•  October 7, 1786 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
•  December 12, 1786 – William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)