In opera, a new Romantic atmosphere combining supernatural terror and melodramatic plot in a folkloric context was first successfully achieved by Carl Maria von Weber ( 1786 – 1826 ) and perfected by Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 1883 ) in his Ring Cycle.

) In 1749 Richard Dunthorne confirmed Halley's suspicion after re-examining ancient records, and produced the first quantitative estimate for the size of this apparent effect: a centurial rate of + 10 " ( arcseconds ) in lunar longitude ( a surprisingly good result for its time, not far different from values assessed later, e. g. in 1786 by de Lalande, and to compare with values from about 10 " to nearly 13 " being derived about a century later.

Richard Payne Knight discussed Pan in his Discourse on the Worship of Priapus ( 1786 ) as a symbol of creation expressed through sexuality.

* Richard Coeur de Lion ( 1786 )

… this sculptured fragment … is both discussed and illustrated in Richard Payne Knight ’ s A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, privately issued for the Dilettanti Society of London in 1786 ….

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.

* Anthony Richard Blake ( 1786 – 1849 ) Irish lawyer, administrator and ' backstairs Viceroy of Ireland

* Richard Belgrave Hoppner ( 1786 – 1872 ), British Consul general, Venice,

The New Lanark cotton mills were founded in 1786 by David Dale in a brief partnership with Richard Arkwright.

* Sir Richard Temple, 7th Baronet ( 1731 – 1786 ) ( dormant )

The third creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1786 when Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon was made Baron Carleton, of Carleton in the County of York, which entitled him to a seat in the House of Lords.

* Richard Pigott Molesworth, 7th Viscount Molesworth ( 1786 – 1875 )

George Washington ’ s letters to brother Richard Tilghman on May 10th, 1786 shows his fondness for Tilghman:

About a month later, on June 5, 1786 he writes to Richard Tilghman: ... none could have felt his death with more regard than I did, because no one entertained a higher opinion of his worth.

In 1786 he edited Ancient Scottish Poems from the manuscript collections of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington.

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 ).

Richard Wylly Habersham ( December 1786 – December 2, 1842 ) was an American lawyer from Savannah, Georgia.

), ( John Gould ( 1804 – 1881 ), Albert C. L. G. Günther ( 1830 – 1914 ), Frank Finn ( 1868 – 1932 ), Charles McFarlane Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Stanley Wells Kemp ( 1882 – 1945 ), James Wood-Mason ( 1846 – 1893 ), Reginald Innes Pocock ( 1863 – 1947 ), Richard Bowdler Sharpe ( 1847 – 1909 ), Malcolm A. Smith ( 1875 – 1958 ) and Nathaniel Wallich ( 1786 – 1854 ).

His most famous work was the historical " rescue opera ", Richard Coeur-de-lion ( 1784 ), which achieved international popularity, reaching London in 1786 and Boston in 1797.

In 1786 he collaborated with John Burgoyne on the successful Richard Coeur de lion.

On October 31, 1786 she married Colonel Richard St George ( d. 1790 < ref > pers.

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.

* When Richard Watt ( d. 1798 ) died his estates were inherited by his nephew, Richard Watt ( d. 1812 ) and then his grandnephew, also Richard Watt ( 1786 – 1855 ).

The British Government took the decision to found the Botany Bay colony in mid 1786.

The Emperor requested a special performance at his palace theater in Laxenburg, which took place in June 1786.

Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén took up Serra's work and established nine more mission sites, from 1786 through 1798 ; others established the last three compounds, along with at least five asistencias ( mission assistance outposts ).

Cumulative exposure to mercury, lead, their compounds, fluoric acid, and other substances took their toll on Scheele, who died on 21 May 1786 at his home in Köping.

In September 1786, Boone took part in a military expedition into the Ohio Country led by Benjamin Logan.

Shays ' Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787.

A singular series of negotiations, however, secured from the king of Sweden a promise of the ambassadorship for 12 years and a pension in case of its withdrawal, and the marriage took place on 14 January 1786.

Shortly afterward came his best-known work, the Gothic novel Vathek ( 1786 ), written originally in French ; he boasted that it took a single sitting of three days and two nights, though there is reason to believe that this was a flight of his imagination.

The need for an enhanced military role took on some urgency in 1786 when Shays ' Rebellion broke out in Massachusetts, threatening the Springfield Armory.

) He also took a trip to Paris, returning to Quebec in June 1786.

The first settlement took place after 1786.

When Rose died in 1786, Burney took over the school, moving it to nearby Hammersmith and thence to Greenwich in 1793.

Being threatened with prosecution for this step, and also for libel, he took refuge by changing his Dublin address often-some are recorded as follows: 16 Dorset Street in 1779, 21 Cornmarket till 1783, 180 Abbey Street till 1785, 67 Bride Street in 1786, 97 Bride Street till 1788, and a return to 67 Bride Street from 1789 till 1795 when he fled to the United States, where he remained till 1798.

Drake was apprenticed to a doctor in York in 1780, and in 1786 proceeded to Edinburgh University, where he took his degree as M. D.

They hit Europe especially hard in the 18th century, with three long pandemics which, although varying in intensity and duration from region to region, took place in the periods of 1709 – 1720, 1742 – 1760, and 1768 – 1786.

In late 1786 Vashon was recalled to service and took command of the 50-gun, where serving under him were Midshipmen James Baker and Peter Puget, and Lieutenant George Vancouver, who would become significant in future explorations of the area of Washington State.

On Easter Monday, 1786, the greatest disaster in the history of the cathedral took place.

Later he traveled to Italy ( 1786 ) where he met Goethe, and on his return to Germany he took up residence as Goethe's guest at Weimar.

However, between 1761 and 1786 the implementation of printing regulations became more relaxed, and many artists took to concealing their name as a feature of the picture ( such as calligraphy on a fan held by a courtesan ) or allusions in the work itself ( such as Utamaro's empon entitled, ' Utamakura.

In 1786 Collins was elected governor of Rhode Island and took office on May 3d, 1786.

Prince Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov ( 19, October 1787-21, May 1862 ), the natural son of Count Fyodor Grigoryevich, was born October 8 ( October 19, 1786 New Style ) in Moscow and took part in all the Napoleonic wars from 1805 to the capture of Paris.

Between 1740 – 1786 Eichsfeld took up arms in the service of Austria against Frederick the Great and fought against Prussia.

The British acquired Penang in 1786, and in 1795 took over Malacca, which had been conquered by the Dutch in 1641.