1786
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1750s 1760s 1770s – 1780s – 1790s 1800s 1810s |
| Years: | 1783 1784 1785 – 1786 – 1787 1788 1789 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1786 MDCCLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2539 |
| Armenian calendar | 1235 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6536 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1707–1708 |
| Bengali calendar | 1193 |
| Berber calendar | 2736 |
| British Regnal year | 26 Geo. 3 – 27 Geo. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2330 |
| Burmese calendar | 1148 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7294–7295 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4482 or 4422 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4483 or 4423 |
| Coptic calendar | 1502–1503 |
| Discordian calendar | 2952 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1778–1779 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5546–5547 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1842–1843 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1707–1708 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4886–4887 |
| Holocene calendar | 11786 |
| Igbo calendar | 786–787 |
| Iranian calendar | 1164–1165 |
| Islamic calendar | 1200–1201 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenmei 6 (天明６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1712–1713 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4119 |
| Minguo calendar | 126 before ROC 民前126年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 318 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2328–2329 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1912 or 1531 or 759 — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1913 or 1532 or 760 |
1786 (MDCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1786th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 786th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1786, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Events[change | change source]
- 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[change | change source]
- 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)