* 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.

In 1786, James White, a Revolutionary War officer, and his friend James Connor built White's Fort near the mouth of First Creek, on land White had purchased three years earlier.

In 1786 he received the Order of Saint Stanislaus and in 1791, the Order of the White Eagle.

In 1786 Lord was approached by George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea, and Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, who were the leading members of the White Conduit Club.

Prince Hieronim Wincenty Radziwiłł () ( May 11, 1759-September 18, 1786 ) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman and Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded in 1780.

On 21 October 1786 Balmain applied to join the group of officers to establish the new colony in New South Wales and was appointed third assistant surgeon to the principal surgeon, John White.

White served in various official capacities with the failed State of Franklin ( 1784 – 1788 ) before building White's Fort in 1786.

William White, who had served as presiding officer of General Convention in 1785 and 1786, was also elected presiding officer of the 1789 convention.

He was succeeded by his eldest son Philip ( 1714 – 1786 ), a distinguished mathematician and a fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1786, Hawkins and fellow Indian agents Andrew Pickens and Joseph Martin concluded a treaty with the Choctaw nation at Seneca Old Town, today's Hopewell, South Carolina.

* 1786 – John Franklin, English navy officer and explorer ( d. 1847 )

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

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

William Hilton Hovell ( 26 April 1786 – 9 November 1875 ) was an English explorer of Australia.

* Sir John Franklin FRGS, ( 15 April 1786 – 11 June 1847 ), English sea captain and Arctic explorer was also educated at King Edward VI Grammar School.

* June 11-John Franklin, naval officer, Arctic explorer, and author ( born 1786 )

* Sir George Simpson ( administrator ) ( 1786 / 7 or 1792 – 1860 ), explorer, meteorologist and administrator of the Hudson's Bay Company

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

French explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse was the first European to visit the island, in 1786.

Louis Isidore Duperrey ( 1786 – 1865 ) was a French sailor and explorer.

* Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ( 1705 – 1786 ) – French explorer, discovered Bouvet Island.

Dixon Denham ( January 1, 1786 – May 8, 1828 ) was an English explorer in West Central Africa.

* Thomas Laycock ( 1786 – 1823 )), English soldier, explorer, and later businessman

File: National-Debt-Gillray. jpeg | In a 1786 James Gillray caricature, the plentiful money bags handed to King George III are contrasted with the beggar whose legs and arms were amputated, in the left corner

James Monroe married Elizabeth Kortright Monroe ( 1768 – 1830 ), daughter of Laurence Kortright and Hannah Aspinwall Kortright, on February 16, 1786, in New York City.

In the 1830s and 1840s, physical anthropology was prominent in the debate about slavery, with the scientific, monogenist works of the British abolitionist James Cowles Prichard ( 1786 – 1848 ) opposing those of the American polygenist Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ).

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, from where James Freeman began teaching Unitarian doctrine in 1784, and was appointed rector and revised the Prayer Book according to Unitarian doctrines in 1786.

In 1786 James Wilkinson purchased the tract of land on the north side of the Kentucky River, which developed as downtown Frankfort.

In 1786, for the first two issues of Columbian Magazine, Philadelphia engraver James Trenchard wrote articles on the obverse ( in September 1786 ) and reverse ( in October 1786 ) of the Great Seal, and each issue included a full-page engraving of his own original version of the discussed side of the seal.

In A new way to pay the National Debt ( 1786 ), James Gillray caricatured Queen Charlotte and George III awash with treasury funds to cover royal debts, with Pitt handing them another moneybag.

Lynchburg was established by charter in 1786 at the site of Lynch's Ferry on the James River.

Georgia's founder and colonial governor, James Oglethorpe, renamed the island " Amelia Island " in honor of Princess Amelia ( 1710 – 1786 ), King George II's daughter, although the island was still a Spanish possession.

* 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.

The 1784 ordinance was criticized by George Washington in 1785 and James Monroe in 1786.

James Wemyss ( 1726 – 1786 ), third son of the fifth Earl, was a Lieutenant-General in the Army.

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.

One suggested child of the Prince and his longtime paramour was James Ord ( born 1786 ), whose curious history of assisted relocations and encouragement has been chronicled ; Ord eventually moved to the United States and became a Jesuit priest ( but appears later to have married, see article on American Civil War General Edward Ord ).

* July 29, James Holman, travel writer ( born 1786 )

In 1786 he exhibited his first important historical subject, the Assassination of James I, and in the following year the Murder of Rizzio, a work whose merit was recognized by his immediate election as associate of the Royal Academy, of which he became a full member in 1788.

** James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton ( 1786 – 1818 ), elder son of the 1st Marquess, predeceased his father

In A new way to pay the National Debt ( 1786 ), James Gillray caricatured Queen Charlotte and George III awash with treasury funds to cover royal debts, with William Pitt the Younger | Pitt handing them another moneybag.

** Governor DeWitt Clinton 1769-1828-son of James, Kingston Academy 1782, Columbia College 1786, NY Bar 1789, Secretary to Governor 1789-1798, NY Assembly 1798, U. S. Senator 1802, resigned, 1803, mayor of New York City 1803, 1808 – 1809, 1811 – 1815 ; NYS Senate 1799 – 1802, 1806 – 1811, Canal Commissioner 1816 – 1822, Governor 1817, 1820, 1824, 1826, Dewitt is best known for the Erie Canal and the NY State Canal System.

James Silk Buckingham ( 25 August 1786 – 30 June 1855 ) was a Cornish author, journalist and traveller.