1786

Events

  • May 21 – Trial of the Necklace affair ends in Paris
  • August 8Mont Blanc was climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat.
  • August 29Shays Rebellion begins
  • September 2Hurricane in England.
  • November 7 – The oldest musical organization in the United States was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
  • November 30Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
  • December 4 – The Mission Santa Barbara, was founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the tenth mission in the California mission chain.

Births

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