* 1742 – Nathanael Greene, American general ( d. 1786 )

* 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

* 1786 – John Franklin, English navy officer and explorer ( d. 1847 )

* 1786 – Ludwig I of Bavaria ( d. 1868 )

* 1786 – Shays ' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.

* 1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.

* 1734 – Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian composer ( d. 1786 )

*" Davy " Crockett ( August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836 ) was a 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician.

* 1725 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral ( d. 1786 )

Frederick the Great ( 1712 – 1786 ) was one of Europe's enlightened monarch s.

In 1740, Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great ( 1740 – 1786 ), came to power.

** Pedro III ( 1777 – 1786 )

** Francis Sacheverel Darwin ( 1786 – 1859 ), physician and traveler

* 1786 – Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer ( d. 1853 )

* 1786 – French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.

* The Anarchiad by David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, John Trumbull, and Lemuel Hopkins ( 1786 – 87 )

Alexander Gordon ( 1786 – 1815 ), younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a soldier and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.

* 1868 – Ludwig I of Bavaria ( b. 1786 )

* 1786 – Martin W. Bates.

* 1786 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist ( d. 1859 )

* 1786 – François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician ( d. 1853 )

* 1786 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician ( d. 1856 )

* 1786 – Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia ( d. 1859 )

Louis XIV ultimately had to relinquish the Electorate of the Palatinate. Frederick II of Prussia | Frederick II, the Great, of Prussia ( 1712 – 1786 ) Afterwards Hungary was reconquered from the Turks ; Austria, under the Habsburgs, developed into a great power.

A landslide dam on the Dadu River caused by an earthquake gave way on 10 June 1786.

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

From October 1784 to September 1786 he was employed by Nepean, who was in charge of the Secret Service relating to the Bourbon Powers, France and Spain, to spy on the French naval arsenals at Toulon and other ports.

In October 1786, Phillip was appointed captain of and named Governor-designate of New South Wales, the proposed British colony on the east coast of Australia, by Lord Sydney, the Home Secretary.

New Lanark, cotton mills and housing for workers on the banks of the River Clyde, founded in 1786.

Eighteenth century Gothic horror drew on these sources in such works as Vathek ( 1786 ) by William Beckford, The Mysteries of Udolpho ( 1794 ) and The Italian ( 1796 ) by Ann Radcliffe and The Monk ( 1797 ) by Matthew Lewis.

The hypothesis reappeared in 1786 when Sir William Jones first lectured on the striking similarities between three of the oldest languages known in his time: Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, to which he tentatively added Gothic, Celtic, and Persian, though his classification contained some inaccuracies and omissions.

This had been achieved much earlier for lead and copper as well as for producing pig iron in a blast furnace, but the second stage in the production of bar iron depended on the use of potting and stamping ( for which a patent expired in 1786 ) or puddling ( patented by Henry Cort in 1784 ).

He found other examples in Galloway in 1786, and on the Isle of Arran in 1787.

James Monroe married Elizabeth Kortright Monroe ( 1768 – 1830 ), daughter of Laurence Kortright and Hannah Aspinwall Kortright, on February 16, 1786, in New York City.

Jacob, with his younger brother Wilhelm ( born on 24 February 1786 ), were sent in 1798 to the public school at Kassel.

A few years afterwards, Methodist Episcopal circuit riders from New York State began to arrive in Canada West at Niagara, and the north shore of Lake Erie in 1786, and at the Kingston region on the northeast shore of Lake Ontario in the early 1790s.

The modern city of Calabar was founded in 1786 by Efik families who had left Creek Town, further up the Calabar river, settling on the east bank in a position where they were able to dominate traffic with European vessels that anchored in the river, and soon becoming the most powerful in the region.

George Forster, who had been on Cook ’ s second voyage to the Pacific and had been with him when he landed on Norfolk Island, was at the time professor of natural history at the University of Vilna ( or Vilnius ) in Polish Lithuania: Forster discussed the proposed Botany Bay colony in an article written in November 1786, “ Neuholland, und die brittische Colonie in Botany Bay ”.

Comptroller of the Navy Sir Charles Middleton explained to Prime Minister Pitt in a letter of 5 September 1786: “ It is for Hemp only we are dependent on Russia.

In the summer of 1786, the Empress Catherine, in the context of tense negotiations on a renewed treaty of commerce, had emphasised her control over this vital commodity by asking the merchants who supplied it to restrict sales to English buyers: “ the Empress has contrary to Custom speculated on this Commodity ”, complained the author of a subsequent memorandum to the Home Secretary.

He had problems with his copies ranging from cracking and blistering ( clearly visible on the example at the Victoria and Albert Museum ) to the reliefs ' lifting ' during the firing, and in 1786 he feared that he could never apply the Jasper relief thinly enough to match the glass original's subtlety and delicacy.

His third annual discourse before the Asiatic Society on the history and culture of the Hindus ( delivered on 2 February 1786 and published in 1788 ) with the famed " philologer " passage is often cited as the beginning of comparative linguistics and Indo-European studies.

Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata ( The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness ), K. 492, is an opera buffa ( comic opera ) composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ( 1784 ).

Figaro premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786, the cast for which is included in the " Roles " section below.

Pierre-Simon Laplace produced in 1786 a theoretical analysis giving a basis on which the Moon's mean motion should accelerate in response to perturbational changes in the eccentricity of the orbit of the Earth around the Sun.