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1786

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s

1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791

Events

Choctaw Treaty
Chickasaw[?] Treaty
Robert Burns publishes Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Frenchmen Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard are the first to climb Mont Blanc

Births

January 23 - Auguste de Montferrand, architect
February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm, philologist, folklorist (+ 1859)
September 18 - King Christian VIII of Denmark
David "Davy" Crockett
Henry Bishop, English composer
Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau, German composer
Carl Maria von Weber, German composer
Ludwig I, King of Bavaria

Deaths

May 19 - John Stanley, English composer
John Stanley, composer
Friedrich II the Great, or Frederick the Great, of Prussia
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist

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