* 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.

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.

Madison attained prominence in Virginia politics, working with Jefferson to draft the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which was finally passed in 1786.

Madison was elected a second time to the Virginia House of Delegates, serving from 1784 to 1786 in the new years of independence.

Aiming toward a first step of resolving interstate commercial antagonisms, Virginia called for a trade conference in Annapolis, Maryland, set for September 1786.

" He also wanted to disestablish the Anglican church in Virginia, but this was not done until 1786, while he was in France as US Minister.

In 1786, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom ( drafted by Thomas Jefferson ) was passed at the temporary capitol in Richmond, providing the basis for the separation of church and state, a key element in the development of the freedom of religion in the United States.

A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.

In 1784, Henry was elected again for a one-year term by the legislature as governor of Virginia, and re-elected twice more, serving until 1786.

Bourbon whiskey derives its name from the original Bourbon County, which in 1786 covered most of what is now northeastern Kentucky but was still part of Virginia.

The original county court met at Fort Harrod ( now Harrodsburg ), although by 1786 the town of Stanford received its charter, making it one of the first towns in Kentucky County, Virginia to receive a formal charter.

1786 ), the third oldest Baptist Church in Virginia, lies a little bit to the north, in the unincorporated area called ' Halfway.

English boxwoods, taken from cuttings sent by Maj. Gen. Henry Lee III " Light Horse Harry " ( Governor of Virginia and father of Robert E. Lee ), were planted in 1786 by George Washington and now crowd the entry path.

From 1784 James Rumsey built a pump-driven ( water jet ) boat and successfully steamed upstream on the Potomac River in 1786 ; the following year he obtained a patent from the State of Virginia.

Randolph was elected Governor of Virginia in 1786, that same year leading a delegation to the Annapolis Convention.

From 1786 to 1788, Lee was a delegate to the Continental Congress, and in the last-named year in the Virginia convention, he favored the adoption of the United States Constitution.

The Annapolis Convention was a meeting in 1786 at Annapolis, Maryland, of 12 delegates from five states ( New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia ) that unanimously called for a constitutional convention.

After a brief honeymoon on Long Island, the newlyweds returned to New York to live with her father until Congress adjourned. Their first child, Eliza, was born in late 1786 or early 1787 in Virginia.

" Thomas Jefferson's influential Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was enacted in 1786, five years before the Bill of Rights.

In 1786, the legislature, recognizing Blair's prestige as a jurist, appointed him Thomas Jefferson's successor on a committee revising the laws of Virginia.

In 1786, Bland was elected to the Virginia House, where he served until 1788.

It notes: " The earliest movement toward developing the inland waterways of the country began when, under the influence of George Washington, Virginia and Maryland appointed commissioners primarily to consider the navigation and improvement of the Potomac ; they met in 1785 in Alexandria and adjourned to Mount Vernon, where they planned for extension, pursuant to which they reassembled with representatives of other States in Annapolis in 1786 ; again finding the task a growing one, a further conference was arranged in Philadelphia in 1787, with delegates from all the States.

It was not until the passing of Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786 that Catholics were free to worship openly in the Old Dominion.

He was elected to the Virginia State senate from 1783 until 1786.