* 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.

* 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.

Further augmentations and clarifications of the Governor-General's authority were made in 1786, presumably by Lord Sydney, and presumably as a result of the Company's setting up of Penang with their own Superintended ( Governor ), Captain Francis Light, in 1786.

Captain Moore ’ s efforts were of great value in establishing amicable relations with the Indians, so that it was not until 1786 that serious trouble began with the hostile tribes.

In 1786, Captain John Hardin led a mounted Kentucky militia across the Ohio River and destroyed a friendly Piankeshaw town near Vincennes.

George Town was founded on 11 August 1786 by Captain Francis Light, a trader for the British East India Company, as base for the company in the Malay States.

Aubrey also spent some time as 5th Lieutenant aboard HMS Hannibal ( in service 1786 – 1801 ), under Captain John Newman.

* HMS Captain was a 100-gun first rate launched in 1786 as HMS Royal Sovereign.

Solander was associated with Banks in Illustrations of the Botany of Captain Cook's Voyage Round the World, and his The Natural History of Many Curious and Uncommon Zoophytes, Collected by the late John Ellis, ( 1786 ) was published posthumously.

Captain Francis Light ( 1740 – 25 October 1794 ) was the founder of the British colony of Penang ( in modern-day Malaysia ) and its capital George Town in 1786.

Maurice of Nassau received the title of " Captain General of the Union " and " Admiral General " in 1587, which became hereditary-like the Stadtholder title, to the Orange-Nassau family, until taken away by the States General in 1786.

In 1786 Menzies was appointed surgeon on board the Prince of Wales ( Captain James Colnett ), on a fur-trading voyage round Cape Horn to the northern Pacific.

After commanding in another small frigate,, in which he was shipwrecked by a hurricane in 1781, Collingwood was promoted to 64 gun ship of the line, and in 1783 he was appointed to and posted to the West Indies, where he remained until the end of 1786, again, together with Nelson and this time his brother, Captain Wilfred Collingwood, preventing American ships from trading with the West Indies.

Born Caroline Anne Bowles on 6 December 1786 at Buckland Manor, near Lymington, she was the only child of Captain Charles Bowles ( 1737 – 1801 ), retired from the East India Company, and Anne Burrard ( 1753 – 1817 ), a prominent local family.

** Captain Thomas John Denison ( November 1 1786 in Dovercourt, England-August 23, 1846 in York, Upper Canada ), great-grand-uncle of Denison III

First, the king approved Bodega's promotion to capitán de navío ( Ship Captain ) on 15 November 1786, the highest naval rank below flag officer ranks.

Captain Sir Francis Light took possession of the island from the Sultan of Kedah in 1786 and built the original fort.

He was the only son of Royal Navy lieutenant James Bremer ( who went missing in the East Indiaman Halswell off the coast of Dorset, England, on 6 January 1786 ) and his wife Ann, daughter of Captain James Norman.

The site of the town was discovered by Captain Francisco Nuñez Pedroso: the town was founded the 14th of August, 1786.

In 1786, Maryland Catholics established the second parish in Kentucky at St. Francis, Kentucky.

* John Francis Wade ( 1711 – 1786 ), English composer

St Paul's Church, in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, has an important enamelled stained glass east window made in 1791 by Francis Eginton, modelled on an altarpiece painted c. 1786 by West, now in the Dallas Museum of Art.

* Joseph Salvador ( 1716 − 1786 ), head of the British East India Company, leader of the Sephardic community in Great Britain, and great-grandfather of Francis Salvador

* Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin ( 1786 – 1859 )

Richard Barnes Mason was a grandson of George Mason ( 1725 – 1792 ); son of George Mason V ( 1753 – 1796 ); brother of George Mason VI ( 1786 – 1834 ); grandnephew of Thomson Mason ( 1733 – 1785 ); first cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1760 – 1803 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1765 – 1824 ), and William Temple Thomson Mason ( 1782 – 1862 ); first cousin of Thomson Francis Mason ( 1785 – 1838 ) and James Murray Mason ( 1798 – 1871 ); second cousin of Armistead Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1819 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1850 ), and John Thomson Mason, Jr. ( 1815 – 1873 ); and second cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1811 – 1843 ).

Francis ' children were linked to many of Europe's royal families: His daughter Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ( 1786 – 1861 ) by her marriage with Prince Edward became the mother of Queen Victoria.

John Francis Wade ( 1711 – 16 August 1786 ) was an English hymnist who is credited with writing and composing the hymn " Adeste Fideles " ( which was later translated to " O Come All Ye Faithful ").

** John Francis Wade, hymnist ( died 1786 )

One of the Prince of Wales's friends was Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, he commissioned Holland to remodel and extend his country residence Woburn Abbey from 1786, this involved a remodelling the south front, within the south wing Holland remodelled several rooms ( 1787 – 90 ), the Venetian Room, to house twenty four paintings of Venice by Canaletto, the Ante-Library and the Library a tripartite room divided by openings containing two columns of the Corinthian order.

James Murray Mason was a grandson of George Mason ( 1725 – 1792 ); nephew of George Mason V ( 1753 – 1796 ); grandnephew of Thomson Mason ( 1733 – 1785 ); first cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1760 – 1803 ) and John Thomson Mason ( 1765 – 1824 ); son of John Mason ( 1766 – 1849 ) and Anna Maria Murray Mason ( 1776 – 1857 ); first cousin of Thomson Francis Mason ( 1785 – 1838 ), George Mason VI ( 1786 – 1834 ), and Richard Barnes Mason ( 1797 – 1850 ); second cousin of Armistead Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1819 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1850 ), and John Thomson Mason, Jr. ( 1815 – 1873 ); second cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1811 – 1843 ); and first cousin thrice removed of Charles O ' Conor Goolrick.

Some improvements were made in the early 18th century, to the design of Francis Smith of Warwick, and around 1786 work began on the present Chillington Hall, designed by Sir John Soane-a large Neo-Classical structure, which incorporates Smith's earlier work.