* 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.

* Jean Baptiste Léonard Durand, Voyage au Sénégal 1785 – 1786, Paris, Agasse, 1802.

François Jean Dominique Arago (), known simply as François Arago (; Catalan: Francesc Aragó, ) ( 1786 – 1853 ), was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician.

Jean Lafitte was likely born in 1782, although he was not baptized until 1786.

Broca first become acquainted with anthropology through the works of Isidore Geoffroy-Saint Hilaire ( 1805 – 1861 ), Antoine Étienne Reynaud Augustin Serres ( 1786 – 1868 ) and Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau ( 1810 – 1892 ), and anthropology soon became his lifetime interest.

Cabanis was born at Cosnac ( Corrèze ), the son of Jean Baptiste Cabanis ( 1723 – 1786 ), a lawyer and agronomist.

He was born at Geneva, of a family which had already made its mark in the literary and scientific world: his great-aunt, Marie Huber, was known as a voluminous writer on religious and theological subjects, and as the translator and epitomizer of The Spectator ( Amsterdam, 3 vols., 1753 ); and his father Jean Huber ( 1721 – 1786 ), who had served for many years as a soldier, was a prominent member of the coterie at Ferney, distinguishing himself by his Observations sur le vol des oiseaux ( Geneva, 1784 ).

Jean de Charpentier or Johann von Charpentier ( December 8, 1786 – December 12, 1855 ) was a German-Swiss geologist who studied Swiss glaciers.

Jean Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ( January 14, 1705 – 1786 ) was a French sailor, explorer, and governor of the Mascarene Islands.

The interior was designed by Jean Baillairgé and his son François from 1786 – 1822.

Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol ( 18 August 1786 – 16 September 1851 ) was a French physician.

Jean Germain Drouais, Marius at Minturnae, 1786, Oil on canvas, 271 cm x 365 cm.

* Jean François de Chastellux, Voyages of M. le Marquis de Chastellux in North America in the years 1780, 1781 and 1782 ( 1786 ) ( reissue: Tallandier, Paris 1980 )

* August 4 – John Vianney, French Saint known as the Cure de Ars ( b. 1786 )

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney ( 8 May 1786 – 4 August 1859 ), commonly known in English as St John Vianney, was a French parish priest who in the Catholic Church is venerated as a saint and as the patron saint of all priests.

Vianney was born on 8 May 1786, in the French town of Dardilly, and was baptized the same day.

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.

* 1871 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer ( b. 1786 )

* 1786 – Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer ( d. 1843 )

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

* 1786 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer ( d. 1871 )

* June 28 – Auguste de Montferrand, French architect ( b. 1786 )

* October 2 – François Arago, French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician ( b. 1786 )

Rossini's opera recounts the first of the plays from the Figaro trilogy, by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais, while Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro, composed 30 years earlier in 1786, is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy.

* September 22 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist ( d. 1786 )

* January 14 – Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French governor of the Mascarene Islands ( d. 1786 )

* François Arago ( 1786 – 1853 ), the physicist, astronomer and liberal politician, who secured the abolition of slavery in the French colonies in 1853, was born in the nearby village of Estagel ( Estagell ) and is memorialized in the eponymous Place Arago that bears his statue in the centre of the town.

Starting in 1786 he attended the local school École des Frères de l ' Éducation Chrétienne, but his education was disrupted by the turmoil of the French Revolution, and the closing of the school in 1791 marked the end of his conventional education.

He was appointed as France's Inspector of Naval Shipbuilding in 1784, and with the assistance of the naval architect Jacques-Noël Sané in 1786 introduced a massive construction programme to revitalise the French navy based on the standard designs of Sané.

In 1786 Jean-François de La Pérouse, representing France, sailed to the Queen Charlotte Islands after visiting Nootka Sound but any possible French claims to this region were lost when La Pérouse and his men and journals were lost in a shipwreck near Australia.

In 1786, as a result of this tuition, Marc became a naval cadet on a French frigate and during his service visited the West Indies several times.

Benjamin Chambers owned a black female slave sometime before the French and Indian War and twenty slaves were recorded as taxable property in 1786.

According to the document, Fox was a " false patriot ; having often insulted the French nation in his speeches, and particularly in 1786.

Auguste de Montferrand ( January 23, 1786 – July 10, 1858 ) was a French Neoclassical architect who worked primarily in Russia.