1786

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Events

• August 8 - Mont Blanc was climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat.
• Choctaw Treaty
• Chickasaw Treaty
• Robert Burns publishes Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
• Frenchmen Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard are the first to climb Mont Blanc
• Francis Light acquires the island of Penang from the Sultan of Kedah on behalf of the English East India Company. It is the first British colony in South-East Asia.

Year in topic

• 1786 in literature
• 1786 in music
• 1786 in science

Births

• January 8 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (+ 1844)
• January 23 - Auguste de Montferrand, architect
• February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm, philologist, folklorist (+ 1859)
• September 18 - King Christian VIII of Denmark
• David "Davy" Crockett
• Henry Bishop, English composer
• Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau, German composer
• Carl Maria von Weber, German composer
• Ludwig I, King of Bavaria

Deaths

• May 19 - John Stanley, English composer
• Friedrich II the Great, or Frederick the Great, of Prussia
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist

Monarchs/Presidents

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)

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