1786 - What happened in 1786 ?

May 1786

Monday 01:

Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna.

June 1786

Thursday 29:

Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.

August 1786

Tuesday 08:

Mont Blanc is climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat.

Tuesday 29:

Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.

September 1786

Monday 11:

The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.

November 1786

Tuesday 07:

America's oldest musical organization was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

Thursday 30:

Grand Duke Leopold II von Hausburg of Tuscany promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty.