* 1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.

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

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.

Several Frenchmen living in " a dozen huts " abandoned Diego Garcia when the British East India Company attempted to establish a settlement there in April 1786.

Though unaware of the British intention to settle Norfolk Island, which was not announced until 5 December 1786, Forster referred to “ the nearness of New Zealand ; the excellent flax plant ( Phormium ) that grows so abundantly there ; its incomparable shipbuilding timber ”, as among the advantages of the new colony.

* 1723 – John Byron, British naval officer ( d. 1786 )

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 ).

* October – William Light, British Army colonel and the first Surveyor-General of South Australia ( b. 1786 )

* October 11 – William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, British Navy officer, politician and diplomat ( b. 1786 )

* April 25 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral ( d. 1786 )

By 1786 the internal affairs of this Dutch colony were effectively under British control.

Methodist missions among the " heathen " will begin in 1786 when Coke, destined for Nova Scotia, is driven off course by a storm and lands at Antigua in the British West Indies.

In 1786 he was appointed deputy surgeon to the British Army and in 1790 he was made Surgeon General by the then Prime Minister William Pitt.

George Town was founded on 11 August 1786 by Captain Francis Light, a trader for the British East India Company, as base for the company in the Malay States.

It is estimated that between 1680 and 1786 the total number of slaves exported into all the British colonies in America was 2, 130, 000.

* Convention of London ( 1786 ), which allowed British settlers in Belize to cut and export timber

In the region around Bluefields, in addition, there were a large number of slaves that had not left with their former masters when the British evacuated the region in 1786, they, in turn received significant numbers of the Afro-West Indians as well.

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

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.

Colonel William Light ( 27 April 1786 – 6 October 1839 ) was a British military officer and the first Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia.

Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham PC ( 30 November 1738 – 20 July 1786 ) was a British politician and statesman.

Mccartney declined the governor-generalship of India ( then the British territories administered by the British East India Company ) and returned to Britain in 1786.

* Charles Russell ( 1786 – 1856 ), British Member of Parliament for Reading

Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin made the first transcriptions of the manuscript in 1786 and published the results in 1815, working under a historical research commission of the Danish government.

In November 1786, after the Franklin government had ceded authority back to North Carolina, that State's General Assembly passed an act creating Hawkins County.

But the problems did not end then ; a farmer, Kristian Jensson Lofthus, in Vestre Moland led a rebellion in 1786 which resulted in the government actually remedying some of the most repressive trade policies, but Lofthus died in prison.

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.

During that time he was chosen as a delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland from 1778 to 1780 and from 1785 to 1786 ; during his service, he was a member of the committee that prepared the ordinance for the government of the Northwest Territory.

In December 1786 Brant, along with leaders of the Shawnee, Delaware, Miami, Wyandot, Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi nations, met at the Wyandot village of Brownstown and renewed the wartime confederacy in the West by issuing a statement to the American government declaring the Ohio River as the boundary between them and the whites.

At length, in August 1786, Chalmers, whose sufferings as a Royalist must have strongly recommended him to the government of the day, was appointed chief clerk to the committee of Privy Council on matters relating to trade, a situation which he retained till his death in 1825, a period of nearly forty years.

In late 1786, North Carolina offered to waive all back taxes if Franklin would reunite with its government.

As New Hampshire established a more stable government, he was elected to the State's Senate from 1784 to 1786.

The Articles Congress received a “ Grand Committee ” report on August 7, 1786 proposing seven amendments to the states for power to “ render the federal government adequate ” to its declared purposes.

In 1786, the British government appointed Guy Carleton, as " governor-in-chief " and also governor of each of the four colonies.

The office of Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island came into being in 1786, when the government of William Pitt adopted the idea that Prince Edward Island ( then St. John's Island ), along with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Quebec, should have as their respective governors a single individual.

The office of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia came into being in 1786, when the government of William Pitt adopted the idea that Nova Scotia, along with New Brunswick, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island, should have as their respective governors a single individual.

The office of Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick came into being in 1786, when the colony of New Brunswick was split out of Nova Scotia and, at the same time, the government of William Pitt adopted the idea that the new jurisdiction, along with Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Quebec, should have as their respective governors a single individual.

The Moroccan government further pointed to several treaties between it and other states, such as with Spain in 1861, the United States of America in 1786, and 1836 and with Great Britain in 1856.

Mitchell served as Delaware's delegate to the Continental Congress during its last two years from his election on October 27, 1786 until the Congress was replaced by the new government under the United States Constitution of 1787.

Between 1784 and 1786 he ( and not his firm ) received £ 7000 in commissions for undertaking government work and a further £ 4250 from interest on government money in his hands.

Hence, in 1786, Governadorcillo Juan Sabino moved the seat of government to Sitio Maganhup, a wide land between now Barangay Naile and Barangay San Jose.

At the Annapolis Convention in September 1786, the delegates asked for a broader meeting to be held the next May in Philadelphia to address the regulation of trade and the structure of the government.

Its central position in south-west Wiltshire made it a centre of local government: between 1530 and 1660 it was sometimes a venue for quarter sessions and in 1786 was made the centre of a petty sessional division.

Having graduated in law from the Reale Università di Cagliari he was appointed in 1786 to the Ministry of the Spanish government at Turin, but his chief interest was in tracking down in archives and libraries the materials that would serve him for a planned history of his native Sardinia, which remains in manuscript.