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.

* 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.

* Paseo del Salón is one of the oldest gardens in the city, since it was created in 1786 by the Economic Society of Friends of the Country of Segovia, and two years later they began planting trees.

Hardy County was created from Hampshire County in 1786 and named for Samuel Hardy, a distinguished Virginian.

Pratt was ennobled in 1765, taking the title Baron Camden, of Camden Place: in 1786 he was created Earl Camden.

It was created on February 3, 1786.

The Town of Crown Point is an original town of the county, established in 1786 before Essex County was created.

The county was created from Bladen County in 1786 by two American Revolutionary War heroes and residents of the area, General John Willis and Colonel Thomas Robeson.

Parker's spy map, created by a Tory sympathizer of the Kingdom of Great Britain, listed the inn as " Berry's " in 1777, but a local petition in 1786 identified it as the " King of Prussia ".

The intendencia of Chiapas was created in 1786 combining San Cristobal ’ s territory with that of Tuxtla and Soconusco, with the government in San Cristobal.

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, on the main square, was begun in 1563 and inaugurated in 1711. In 1786 ( 23 December ) the Spanish Crown created the Intendencia of Comayagua, with Comayagua as its capital, which lasted until 1812.

His son Thomas became a major general in the British army, was created a baronet in 1786, and served, after his posting to the Bahamas, as governor of Dominica and of the Leeward Islands.

The 8th earl was created Viscount Hamilton, of Hamilton, in the Peerage of Great Britain on 24 August 1786.

He was tutored at home before being sent to the University of Göttingen in Germany in summer 1786, along with his brothers Prince Ernest ( created Duke of Cumberland in 1799 ) and Prince Augustus ( created Duke of Sussex in 1801 ).

George III appointed Prince Adolphus a Knight of the Garter on 6 June 1786, and created him Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Tipperary, and Baron Culloden on 17 November 1801.

In 1786 he was created Baron Murray, of Stanley in the County of Gloucester, and Earl Strange in the Peerage of Great Britain.

In 1786 he returned to Paris, and in 1788 brought out the Venetus A of Homer, which created a sensation in the learned world.

The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Sutherland are: Marquess of Stafford ( created 1786 ), Earl Gower ( 1746 ), Earl of Ellesmere, of Ellesmere in the County of Shropshire ( 1846 ), Viscount Trentham, of Trentham in the County of Stafford ( 1746 ), Viscount Brackley, of Brackley in the County of Northampton ( 1846 ), and Baron Gower, of Sittenham in the County of York ( 1703 ).

In 1786 he was created Marquess of Stafford in the Peerage of Great Britain.

* Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Gower ( 1721 – 1803 ) ( created Marquess of Stafford in 1786 )

In 1786 he was created Baron Tyrone, of Haverfordwest in the County of Pembroke, in the Peerage of Great Britain.

In 1765 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Camden, of Camden Place in the County of Kent, and in 1786 he was further honoured when he was created Viscount Bayham, of Bayham Abbey in the County of Kent, and Earl Camden.

In 1786 he was also created Baron Montagu, of Boughton in the County of Northampton, with remainder to the younger sons of his daughter.

* Baron Douglas, of Ambresbury, Co. Wilts ( created 1786 in the Peerage of Great Britain ), a subsidiary title held by William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry