* 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.

When William Herschel constructed his catalog of deep sky objects in 1786, he used the name spiral nebula for certain objects such as M31.

* Frederick William II ( 1786 – 1797 ) ( nephew of )

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.

* 1857 – William L. Marcy, American politician, 21st United States Secretary of State ( b. 1786 )

She passed it to her son William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland in 1786.

* January 13 – William Mason, American politician ( b. 1786 )

* October – William Light, British Army colonel and the first Surveyor-General of South Australia ( b. 1786 )

* April 18 – William R. King, 13th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1786 )

* October 11 – William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, British Navy officer, politician and diplomat ( b. 1786 )

The use of " arabesque " as an English noun first appears, in relation to painting, in William Beckford's novel Vathek in 1786.

* William Thomas Beckford — Vathek ( 1786 )

The English versions of the " Oriental Tale " generally contained a heavy moralising element, with the notable exception of William Beckford's fantasy Vathek ( 1786 ), which had a decisive influence on the development of the Gothic novel.

Houston Street is named for William Houstoun, who was a delegate from State of Georgia to the Continental Congress from 1784 through 1786 and to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

* Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton – Paragon ( 1786 ), Spadille ( 1787 ), Young Flora ( 1788 ), Tartar ( 1792 ), Petronius ( 1808 ), Ashton ( 1809 ), William ( 1814 )

The first court met in May 1786 in the Castle's Woods settlement ( present-day Castlewood ) in the house of William Robinson.

* William Cotton ( banker ) ( 1786 – 1866 ), Governor of the Bank of England, 1842 – 1845

* William Hovell ( 1786 – 1875 ), explorer of Australia was born in Great Yarmouth.

* William R. King ( 1786 – 1853 ), Vice President of the United States under James Buchanan.

Dwight had eight sons: Timothy Dwight ( 1778 – 1844 ), a New Haven merchant and philanthropist ; Benjamin Woolsey Dwight ( 1780 – 1850 ), a New York physician ; educator and theologian ; twins James Dwight ( 1784 – 1863 ) and John Dwight ( 1784 – 1803 ); Sereno Edwards Dwight ( 1786 – 1850 ); clergyman William Theodore Dwight ( 1795 – 1865 ); Henry Edwin Dwight ( 1797 – 1832 ); and one who died young.

In 1786 he was appointed deputy surgeon to the British Army and in 1790 he was made Surgeon General by the then Prime Minister William Pitt.

Wolfe Tone's only surviving son was William Theobald Wolfe Tone ( both the eldest two children died prematurely: Maria, b. 1786, Dublin, d. 1803, Paris, France, of consumption i. e. tuberculosis and Richard, b 1787 / 1789, died in infancy.

Vathek ( 1786 ), by William Beckford, and The Monk ( 1796 ), by Matthew Lewis, were further notable early works in both the Gothic and horror genres.

In 1786 – 88 the local builder William Eboral was commissioned to build the new greenhouse conservatory, with as its principal ornament the Warwick Vase, recently purchased in Rome.