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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 10, 1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
•  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 11, 1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
•  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.

•  January 7, 1786 – John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
•  January 12, 1786 – Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
•  January 23, 1786 – Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
•  September 10, 1786 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854)
•  September 11, 1786 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
•  September 18, 1786 – Justinus Kerner, German poet (d. 1862)
•  October 11, 1786 – Stevenson Archer, American Congressman (d. 1848)
•  October 30, 1786 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
•  November 18, 1786 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)