Historical Events In 1786
Friday, 31 October 2025
Jan 03   Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer in the year 1786.  
 
 

Jan 04   Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56 in the year 1786.  
 
 

Jan 06   In Saint John, New Brunswick the first sitting of the New Brunswick legislature takes place at Saint John in the year 1786.  
 
 

Jan 08   Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd bank of US 1st effective central bank in the year 1786.  
 
 

Jan 26   On this day in history benjamin Robert Haydon, Plymouth, painter (Waiting for The Times)  
 
 

Feb 13   Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia in the year 1786.  
 
 

Feb 20   In the year 1786 johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 70  
 
 

Feb 24   In the year 1786 charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India  
 
 

Feb 24   The birth of Wilhelm Grimm, Author of fairy tales on this day in history.  
 
 

Feb 24   Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales) in the year 1786.  
 
 

Feb 28   On this day in history d Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist/politician  
 
 

Mar 07   In the year 1786 frantisek Benda, composer, dies at 76  
 
 

Mar 11   Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28 in the year 1786.  
 
 

Mar 23   Patience Wright, 1st US woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown) on this day in history.  
 
 

Mar 25   Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist on this day in history.  
 
 

Apr 04   John Franklin, British explorer (Arctic) in the year 1786.  
 
 

Apr 07   William Rufus DeVane King, (D) 13th VP (1853) in the year 1786.  
 
 

Apr 18   Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer in the year 1786.  
 
 

Apr 20   John Goodricke, English deaf & dumb astronomer, dies at 21 in the year 1786.  
 
 

Apr 23   On this day in history alexander Cozens, English water colors painter, dies at about 68  
 
 

May 01   On this day in history mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)  
 
 

May 01   Wolfgang Mozart premieres his opera, The Marriage of Figaro, in Vienna on this day in history.  
 
 

May 05   Pedro III, King of Portugal, dies on this day in history.  
 
 

May 06   Ludwig Borne, writer in the year 1786.  
 
 

May 08   In the year 1786 thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry  
 
 

May 19   John Stanley, composer, dies at 74 in the year 1786.  
 
 

May 21   Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43 in the year 1786.  
 
 

Jun 08   Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC) on this day in history.  
 
 

Jun 08   First commercially-made ice cream sold (NY) on this day in history.  
 
 

Jun 10   A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China in the year 1786.  
 
 

Jun 13   In the year 1786 winfield Scott, army general (Union)/presidential candidate  
 
 

Jun 29   Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario in the year 1786.  
 
 

Jul 22   Vaclav Kalous, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  
 
 

Jul 25   Giacomo Cordella, composer in the year 1786.  
 
 

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