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1786
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by
Gorgonzola
Mon Nov 06 2000 at 2:00:34
Born in 1786:
Ill-fated
British
explorer Sir
John Franklin
.
German
composer
Carl Maria von Weber
.
German composer
Friedrich Kuhlau
.
English
poet
Helen Maria Williams
.
Legendary
Suquamish
Chief
Seattle
.
French
mathematician
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet
.
Tennessee
politician
Davy Crockett
.
Japanese
painter
Utagawa Kunisada
.
French
physicist
Dominique Arago
.
English
astronomer
Thomas Wright
, who suggested that the celestial phenomenon known as the
Milky Way
was a disc of
star
s, now called a
Galaxy
.
British painter
George Jones
.
American general
Winfield Scott
, commander of forces during the
Mexican War
and at the beginning of the
US Civil War
.
German folklorist
Wilhelm Grimm
(brother
Jacob
was born
the previous year
).
The future King
Ludwig I
of
Bavaria
, father of
"Mad" King Ludwig II
.
Irish
painter
William Mulready
.
English writer
Caroline Bowles Southey
.
French botanist
Auguste Bachelot De La Pylaie
.
Mexican revolutionary leader
Nicolas Bravo
.
The future
King Christian VIII
of
Denmark
.
Died in 1786:
English
organist
and
composer
Joseph Stanley
.
American Revolutionary War general
Nathaniel Greene
.
Spanish
governor of
Louisiana
,
viceroy
of
Mexico
, and conqueror of
Florida
,
Bernardo de Galvez
.
Frederick II
, King of
Prussia
.
Swedish
chemist
Karl Wilhelm Scheele
German
-
Jewish
philosopher
Moses Mendelssohn
.
Events of 1786:
Benjamin Franklin
writes a letter to one to Benjamin Vaughan describing the ill effects of
lead poisoning
.
Virginia
,
Delaware
,
Pennsylvania
,
New Jersey
, and
New York
meet in
Annapolis
,
Maryland
to form a commission "to Remedy Defects of the Federal Government" attempting to remedy the chaos caused by the
Articles of Confederation
(Maryland sent no representative).
Woolen workers in
Leeds
(England) publish a petition in local newspapers decrying the use of machines to perform their work.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
finishes his operas
Der Schauspieldirektor
and
Le nozze di Figaro
, along with two dozen other works, including his 38th "Prague" Symphony.
Virginia
passes a religious freedom statute, first proposed by Thomas Jefferson in
1779
.
Jacques Balmat
and
Michel-Gabriel Paccard
scale
Mont Blanc
.
Lord
Charles Cornwallis
becomes
governor-general
of the British-occupied part of
India
(
Bengal
and a strip of the Eastern coastline around
Madras
).
Captain
Daniel Shays
leads a
rebellion
of western
Massachussetts
farmers who are unable to pay their debts due to a severe economic depression in the infant United States.
1785
-
1786
-
1787
1787
1785
Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel
Charles James Blomfield
Harriette Wilson
Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington
James Silk Buckingham
Idea for a Universal History with Cosmopolitan Purpose
Carl Maria von Weber
Seattle, Washington
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John Hope Franklin
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Christian VIII
Ludwig II
lead poisoning
Impresario
Davy Crockett
Brandenburger Tor
India
Virginia
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