In history, year 1786 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1786.
Top Historical Events of the Year 1786 ⚡:
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
|---|
| 01 may | The Marriage of Figaro, an opera buffa composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna. |
| 08 august | Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat completed the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc in the Alps, an act considered to be the birth of modern mountaineering. |
| 11 august | Captain Francis Light founded the British colony of Penang,beginning more than a century of British involvement in Malaya. |
| 29 august | Led by Daniel Shays, disgruntled farmers in WesternMassachusetts, US, angered by high tax burdens and disenfranchisement,started Shays' Rebellion. |
| 12 September | Lord Cornwallis became the Governor General of India. |
| 08 August | The US Congress accepted the silver dollar and the decimal system for currency. |
| 06 January | The outer bound East Indian Halswell was wrecked on a storm off the south coast of England, leaving only 74 of the 240 survivors. |
| 13 February | Abraham Baldwin was elected president of the University of Georgia. |
| 01 May | The wedding of Mozart's opera Vivah premiered in Vienna. |
| 10 June | An earthquake in China's Sijuan province broke the dam on the Dadu River, killing one million people. |
| 29 July | The first newspaper was published in the West's Alleghany, Pitts Gadget. |
| 01 August | Caroline Herschel discovered a comet, the first discovery by a woman. |
| 26 September | Eden Accord: A commercial treaty was signed between the states of Great Britain and France. |
| 20 October | The first astronomical expedition was conducted at Harvard University America. |
| 07 November | The Staughton Music Society, the oldest music organization in the United States, was founded. |
| 04 December | Mission Santa Barbara was founded by Padre Fermin Lassuen as the tenth part of the Spanish mission in California. |
Famous birthdays in the year 1786:
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
|---|
| 02 February | Jacques Philippe Marie Binet / Mathematician / France |
| 07 October | Louis-Joseph Papineau / Politician / Canada |
| 07 January | John Catron / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 08 January | Nicholas Biddle / Banker / United States of America |
| 10 September | William Mason / Politician / United States of America |
| 10 September | Nicolás Bravo / Politician / Mexico |
| 11 October | Stevenson Archer / Politician / United States of America |
| 11 January | Joseph Jackson Lister / Physicist / United Kingdom |
| 11 September | Friedrich Kuhlau / Pianist / Germany |
| 12 December | William L. Marcy / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 15 May | Dimitris Plapoutas / Politician / Greece |
| 17 August | Davy Crockett / Politician / United States of America |
| 18 September | Justinus Kerner / Poet / Germany |
| 20 December | Pietro Raimondi / Composer / Italy |
| 20 June | Marceline Desbordes-Valmore / Poet / France |
| 21 June | Charles Edward Horn / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 24 February | Martin W. Bates / Politician / United States of America |
| 26 February | François Arago / Politician / France |
| 29 September | Guadalupe Victoria / Lawyer / Mexico |
| 30 October | Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé / Author / Canada |