1786 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1786?
- January 16, 1786 – The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
- May 1, 1786 – Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
- June 10, 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.
- June 25, 1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
- June 29, 1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
- August 8, 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
- August 11, 1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
- August 29, 1786 – Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
- September 11, 1786 – The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
- November 7, 1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
- November 30, 1786 – Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. Consequently, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
- December 29, 1786 – French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.
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