1786 Calendar
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1786 Historical Event(s)
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 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 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.
November 7, 1786
– The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
December 29, 1786
– French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.
Who Were Born On 1786?
January 8, 1786
– Nicholas Biddle, American banking executive (d. 1844)
January 12, 1786
– Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
January 23, 1786
– Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
June 13, 1786
– Winfield Scott, U.S. general (d. 1866)
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)
August 17, 1786
– Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
September 29, 1786
– Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
December 12, 1786
– William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)