Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1786. 1786 (MDCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

inspired Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, which premiered in Vienna on 1 May 1786. On 24 October 1784 putting the Baron de Breteuil in charge of its acquisition...

The Oxyrhynchus hymn (or P. Oxy. XV 1786) is the earliest known manuscript of a Christian Greek hymn to contain both lyrics and musical notation. The papyrus...

Nicholas Biddle (January 8, 1786 – February 27, 1844) was an American financier who served as the third and last president of the Second Bank of the United...

hunting. 1787-1784 BC: The Amorite civilization conquers Uruk and Isin. 1786 BC: In Egypt, the Twelfth Dynasty ends, and the Thirteenth and Fourteenth...

Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate. He served as Commanding General of the United...

Maria Pavlovna (Russian: Мария Павловна; 16 February [O.S. 5 February] 1786 – 23 June [O.S. 11 June] 1859) was a grand duchess of Russia as the daughter...

Jamaica for West Africa.[citation needed] Elizabeth (1786 ship) was launched at Bermuda in 1786 (or 1790). She first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1802...

have been named Chance: Chance, a schooner of 39 tons (bm), was launched in 1786 at St John's Newfoundland. She became a Liverpool-based slave ship in the...

The Coventry Canal is a navigable narrow canal in the Midlands of England. It starts in Coventry and ends 38 miles (61 km) to the north at Fradley Junction...

Federal Government, was a national political convention held September 11–14, 1786 at Mann's Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland, in which twelve delegates from five...

Worship of Priapus, privately issued for the Dilettanti Society of London in 1786 ... . The illustration in question is a detail engraving given in Payne Knight's...

the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786. Bellerophon served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars,...

Events from the year 1786 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Frederick Haldimand Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton...

Count Edward Raczyński, of the Nałęcz coat-of-arms (April 2, 1786 in Poznań – January 20, 1845 in Zaniemyśl) was a Polish conservative politician, protector...

and Middlesex in 1785. Watson was agent for New Brunswick in London from 1786 until 1794, and Commissary-General to the Duke of York from 1793 to 1795...

Black was the son of William Black and Jane McMun. He came to Quebec around 1786 and worked as a ship's carpenter with William King on the Baie des Chaleurs...

India Company (Money) Acts 1786 to 1858 was the collective title of the following Acts: The East India Company (Money) Act 1786 (26 Geo. 3. c. 62) The East...

(June 20, 1737 – September 17, 1786) was the tenth shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, who held office from 1760 to 1786. His childhood name was Takechiyo...

Henry Drummond (5 December 1786 – 20 February 1860), English banker, politician and writer, best known as one of the founders of the Catholic Apostolic...

self-portrait and some landscapes. His last contribution to the Academy, in 1786, was The Death of Athelwold Burgess gained a high reputation as a teacher...

composer (born 1712) August 26 – Christoph Christian Sturm, lyricist (born 1786) September 6 – Karl von Ordóñez, composer (born 1734) September 18 – Giovanni...

urban development in the city location. The city was officially founded in 1786 as a trading town and grew steadily over the following decades, as it transformed...

London and Liverpool until she was wrecked in 1785. Woolton (1786 ship) was launched in 1786 at Liverpool. She spent her brief career sailing between Liverpool...

(German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King...

in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The...

in effect until its extensive revision in 1786. The second Constitution of Vermont went into effect in 1786 and lasted until 1793, two years after Vermont...

initially laid up before being fitted for sea between September and December 1786 for service with the First Fleet. She was nominally rated as a sixth-rate...

Illuminati in Bavaria (1785), A Picture of Illuminism (1786), An Apology for the Illuminati (1786), and An Improved System of Illuminism (1787). Adam Weishaupt...

The String Quartet No. 20 in D major, K. 499, was written in 1786 in Vienna by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was published by – if not indeed written for...