At that time, Mons became a masonic center followed by the creation of several new lodges ( Vraie et parfaite harmonie ( 1767 ), À l ' Orient de Mons ( 1783 ) et la Ligue équitable ( 1786 )).

The " Young Princes murdered in the Tower ," his first important work on a historical subject, dates from 1786, and it was followed by the " Burial of the Princes in the Tower ".

* 1786: Stagnation followed under the rule of Frederick William II.

Further adaptations followed in 1786 ( Thomas Hull's at Covent Garden ) and 1816 ( George Lamb's at Drury Lane ), ending with an 1851 production reinstating Shakespeare's original text by Samuel Phelps at Sadler's Wells.

In 1786, he followed a call to Altdorf, where he was appointed professor of chemistry.

The Sultan of Kedah, a Siamese vassal, gave Penang off to the British without consulting Siam in 1786, followed by the British acquisition of Province Wellesley.

In 1786 he exhibited " Narcissus " and " The Lady and Sabrina " ( from Milton's " Comus ") at the Royal Academy ; these were followed by many works, usually small in size, illustrative of the English poets, especially James Thomson.

In 1786 the East India Company Court of Directors first proposed a permanent settlement for Bengal, changing the policy then being followed by Calcutta, which was attempting to increase taxation of zamindars.

Other short tales and comedies followed, and in 1786 appeared Numa Pompilius, an undisguised imitation of Fénelon's Telémaque.

His son, Granville George ( 1786 – 1857 ), followed in his father's footsteps, and was made a vice-admiral in 1851.

The occupation of northern Bukovina by Austria in 1774 brought a further wave of Székely immigration: another 100 families settled in the still sparsely populated territory in 1776, followed by a further 200 in 1784 and 1786, with assistance from Emperor Joseph II of Austria and Count András Hadik, governor of Transylvania.

The first Board of Revenue was set up in Bengal in 1786, Tamil Nadu soon followed suit. In the course of time this organization came to be set up in most other provinces.

Matthew Griswold ( March 25, 1714 – April 28, 1799 ) was the 17th Governor of Connecticut from 1784 to 1786.

* 1713 – Meshech Weare, American farmer, lawyer, and politician, 1st Governor of New Hampshire ( d. 1786 )

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

Further augmentations and clarifications of the Governor-General's authority were made in 1786, presumably by Lord Sydney, and presumably as a result of the Company's setting up of Penang with their own Superintended ( Governor ), Captain Francis Light, in 1786.

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

The county was named by Alexander Doniphan to honor John Caldwell, who participated in the George Rogers Clark Native American Campaign of 1786 and was the second Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.

He also served as President of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1781, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1784 to 1785, and the 18th Governor of Connecticut from 1786 until his death.

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 1786 to 1791, " President of the State of New Hampshire " was the official style of the position, until the New Hampshire Constitution was amended to replace " President " with " Governor ".

** 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.

He served again as an Indian Commissioner, and was elected Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut in 1786, assuming the Governorship on the death of Samuel Huntington in 1796, and was reelected to the position, dying in office at the age of seventy-one in Farmington, Connecticut.

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

He is the first independent to serve as Governor of Rhode Island since John Collins, who served 1786 – 1790.

Samuel Ward King ( May 23, 1786 – January 20, 1851 ) was the 15th Governor of Rhode Island from 1839 to 1843.

Upon the election of James Bowdoin to be Governor of Massachusetts in 1786, Reverend William Gordon in his sermon warned Bowdoin that he ignored the state's legislature at his peril, as Bernard had.

Abner Nash ( August 8, 1740 – December 2, 1786 ) was the second Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina between 1781 and 1782, and represented North Carolina in the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1786.

He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1785, and of the Governor ’ s council in 1786.

The Marathas were still in a very strong position when the new British Governor General Cornwallis arrived in India in 1786.

From 1778 to 1786 he served as Governor of the Province of Quebec, during which time he oversaw military operations against the northern frontiers in the war, and engaged in ultimately fruitless negotiations to establish the independent Vermont Republic as a new British province.

* John Murphy ( Alabama ) ( 1786 – 1841 ), American Democratic Governor and Congressman from Alabama

Granby was part of Simsbury, Connecticut until 1786, when it became independent.

*** State of Connecticut, 1786 and 1800

Sometime around 1785 or 1786, which was two years after the Treaty of Paris and Treaties of Versailles were signed on September 3, 1783 ending the American Revolutionary War, the future Proprietors and Pioneers of Sherburne, New York left Kent, Connecticut and emigrated to Duanesburgh, Schenectady County, New York.

Back in Derby by 1786, Humphreys was elected to the October session of the Connecticut General Assembly.

Born in 1786 to a rich and religious family in Connecticut, Taylor entered Yale University when only 14 ( 1800 ) but could not graduate until 1807 because of an eye problem.

Connecticut sent him is a delegate to the Continental Congress in 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.

A fragment of his treatise On burning-glasses was published as (" Concerning wondrous machines ") by L. Dupuy in 1777, and also appeared in 1786 in the forty-second volume of the Histoire de l ' Academie des Instrumentistes.

*" Davy " Crockett ( August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836 ) was a 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician.

A garbled version of this eventually found its way into the English press when Phillip was appointed in 1786 to lead the expedition to Sydney.

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.

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.

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.

Frederick the Great ( 1712 – 1786 ) was one of Europe's enlightened monarch s.

This was described in a book published in 1786, but Müller failed to obtain funding to progress with the idea.

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

Alexander Gordon ( 1786 – 1815 ), younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a soldier and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.

He also served from 1783 to September 1785 and was married in 1786 to Ann Thompson, the daughter of a wealthy New York merchant, 21 years his junior.

In 1786, Goya was given a salaried position as painter to Charles III.

The person credited with the second vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction " vermouth " in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavored with wormwood, a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe.

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.

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.

They investigated the practices of a disaffected student of Mesmer, one Charles d ' Eslon ( 1750 – 1786 ), and despite the fact that they accepted that Mesmer's results were valid, their placebo-controlled experiments following d ' Eslon's practices convinced them that mesmerism was most likely due to belief and imagination rather than to any sort of invisible energy (" animal magnetism ") transmitted from the body of the mesmerist.

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.

In Constance the jury trial was suppressed by decree of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1786.

Reverend Major George Neal began to preach in Niagara in October 1786, and was ordained in 1810 by Bishop Philip Asbury, at the Lyons, New York Methodist Conference.

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.