Condorcet later wrote Vie de M. Turgot ( 1786 ), a biography which spoke fondly of Turgot and advocated Turgot's economic theories.

In 1786 Condorcet married Sophie de Grouchy, who was more than twenty years his junior.

Apart from this Murdoch does not appear to have worked much on his ideas from 1784 to 1786, because of the continuing high volume of work for Boulton and Watt, his marriage in 1785, and the birth of his and his wife's twins in the same year.

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

Thomas Nuttall ( 5 January 1786 – 10 September 1859 ) was an English botanist and zoologist, who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841.

Prince William Henry ( the future William IV ), on visiting St. John's in 1786, noted that " there are ten Roman Catholics to one Protestant ", and the Prince worked to counter early relaxations of ordinances against Catholics.

The scheme worked well between 1786 and 1793 with the Commissioners receiving £ 8 million and reinvesting it to reduce the debt by more than £ 10 million.

Several amateurs also worked alongside from other civil services and they were assisted by professional botanists such as Joseph Dalton Hooker ( 1817 – 1911 ), John Gerard Koenig ( 1728 – 1785 ), Robert Wight ( 1796 – 1872 ), Nathaniel Wallich ( 1786 – 1854 ) and William Roxburgh ( 1751 – 1815 ), the Father of Indian Botany.

The German composers Felix Mendelssohn ( 1809 – 1847 ) and Carl Maria von Weber ( 1786 – 1826 ) both lived and worked on Great Portland Street.

On 17 November 1779, he was called to the University of Altdorf, where he worked from 1780 to 1786.

August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard ( 1786 – 1839 ) was a German botanist, who worked at Saint Petersburg, Russia.

He was a designer and engraver and from 1786 he worked for three years as a designer and engraver at a cotton factory in the Ukraine.

He worked in the Senate from 1779 to 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.

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

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 ).

* 1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100, 000 in the Sichuan province of China.

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.

Moses Mendelssohn ( 6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786 ) was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah ( the ' Jewish enlightenment ' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ) is indebted.

Frederick the Great -- who ruled Prussia 1740 – 1786, was an enthusiast for French ideas ( he ridiculed German culture and was unaware of the remarkable advances it was undergoing ).

Apart from Glover, similar ideas had been elaborated in France by Pierre Galin ( 1786 – 1821 ), Aimé Paris ( 1798 – 1866 ) and Emile Chevé ( 1804 – 1864 ), whose method of teaching how to read at sight also depended on the principle of tonic relationship being taught by the reference of every sound to its tonic, and by the use of a numeric notation.

He commenced his medical practice in Edinburgh, but opposition to his new ideas, as set out in his Elementa Medicinae resulted in his move to London in 1786.

Born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, Fisher moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1835, when he established what is believed to have been the first foundry in the city, on the northwest corner of James and Merrick streets, Fisher designed and manufactured the first threshing machines in Canada, basing his ideas on a 1786 model designed by a Scot.

Shortly after this success Joseph II had Mozart and Salieri each contribute a one-act opera and / or singspiel for production at a banquet in 1786.

Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.

Allen was also approached by Daniel Shays in 1786 for support in what became the Shays ' Rebellion in western Massachusetts.

The entry for " Flamenco " in the 1786 Diccionario español e ingles ( Volume 1 ), gives the following definition: " f. m.

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

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

* Eliza Monroe ( 1786 – 1835 ) – married George Hay in 1808 and substituted for her ailing mother as official White House hostess for her father's presidential events.

* 1786 – Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.

In 1786 the British government included Norfolk Island as an auxiliary settlement, as proposed by John Call, in its plan for colonization of New South Wales.

On 6 December 1786, an Order in Council was issued, designating " the Eastern Coast of New South Wales, or some one or other of the Islands adjacent " as the destination for transported convicts, as required by the Transportation Act of 1784 ( 24 Geo. III, c. 56 ) that authorised the sending of convicted felons to any place appointed by the King in Council.

An article in The Daily Universal Register ( the forerunner of The Times ) of 23 December 1786 revealed the plan for a dual colonization of Norfolk Island and Botany Bay: “ The ships for Botany Bay are not to leave all the convicts there ; some of them are to be taken to Norfolk Island, which is about eight hundred miles East of Botany Bay, and about four hundred miles short of New Zealand ”.

Cowper left Olney for nearby Weston Underwood in 1786.

By 1786, Americans found their continental borders besieged and weak, their respective economies in crises as neighboring states agitated trade rivalries with one another, witnessed their hard currency pouring into foreign markets to pay for imports, their Mediterranean commerce preyed upon by North African pirates, and their foreign-financed Revolutionary War debts unpaid and accruing interest.

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

The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 with the task of caring for Swedish literature and language, including the publication of a grand dictionary.

During the winter of 1786 – 87 the 15-year-old Scott saw Robert Burns at one of these salons, for what was to be their only meeting.