Captain Cook’s first landing at Botany Bay 16 years earlier (1770)
In the year 1786, Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna (May 1), the Cabinet of Great Britain approves the establishment of a penal colony at Botany Bay, Australia (Aug), Reykjavik is founded (Aug 18), the Confederation Congress establishes the United States Mint to make common coinage and currency for the U.S., to replace individual state coins (Oct 16), Grand Duke of Tuscany promulgates a penal reform, making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty (Nov 30) - and all these fine people were born:
1786-xxxx Elias AntinpoikaTurtia** father of Paavo Eliaanpoika Turtia - possibly Viipuri, Russian Empire (1867/76-85) aby
1786-0111 Joseph Jackson Lister* opticist/physicist/father of Joseph Lister - London, England (1869/83)
1786-0115 Alexander Sutthoff* Finnish military leader in the Russian Imperial Army - Viborg (1874/88)
1786-0222 Fredrika Lovisa Lindqvist* author/active in Sweden - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1841/55)
1786-0223 Helena Mikontytär Latva** (b Pöytäkangas) mother of Iisakki Erkinpoika Latva - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1858/72)
1786-0224 Wilhelm Grimm* author/anthropologist/the younger of the library duo the Brothers Grimm - Hanau, Hesse-Kassel, Holy Roman Empire (1859/73)
1786-0304 Agustina de Aragón* Spanish heroine who defended Spain during the Peninsular War - Reus, Catalonia, Spain (1857/71)
1786-0322 Joachim Lelewel* historian/ geographer/politician - Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1861/75)
1786-0325 Giovanni Battista Amici* Italian astronomer/microscopist/ botanist - Modena (1863/77)
1786-0401 Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon* author - Paris, Kingdom of France (1864/78)
1786-0416 John Franklin* officer/Arctic explorer - Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England (1847/61)
1786-0428 Elizabeth Andrew Warren* botanist/marine algologist - Truro, England (1864/78)
1786-0508 John Vianney* Catholic priest/"Curé d’Ars" - Dardilly, Lyonnais, Kingdom of France (1859/73)
1786-0524 Carl Christian Böcker* economist/ statistician - Vaasa, Sweden-Finland (1841/54)
1786-0530 András Fáy* poet/ playwright/politician - Kohány, Kingdom of Hungary (1864/78)
1786-0611 Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar* German physician/natural scientist - Sulzbach, Hesse (1845/58)
1786-0620 Marceline Desbordes-Valmore* poet/ novelist/actress - Douai, France (1859/73)
1786-0621 Charles Edward Horn* composer/singer - St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England (1849/63)
1786-0720 Christian Ludvig Hjelt* printer/bookstore owner - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1849/63)
1786-0724 Joseph Nicollet* geographer/ astronomer/to U.S. at age 46 - Cluses, Savoy, Kingdom of France (1843/57)
1786-0725 Wilhelm Gabriel Lagus* lawyer/historian/university dean - Iisalmi, Sweden-Finland (1859/73)
1786-0817 Davy Crockett* frontiersman/soldier/politician - Limestone, NC USA (1836/49)
1786-0817 Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld* German princess/mother of Queen Victoria - Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Holy Roman Empire (1861/74)
1786-0831 Michel Eugène Chevreul* chemist - Angers, France (1889/102)
1786-0911 Friedrich Kuhlau* German-Danish pianist/composer - near Lüneburg, Lower Saxony (1832/45)
1786-0918 Christian VIII of Denmark* King of Norway and Denmark - Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark (1848/61)
1786-0929 Guadalupe Victoria* general/1st president of Mexico - Tamazula, Nueva Vizcaya, Viceroyalty of New Spain (1843/56)
1786-1010 François-Édouard Picot* painter - Paris, Kingdom of France (1868/81)
1786-1014 Julius Jacob von Haynau* Austrian general - Kassel, Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, Holy Roman Empire (1853/66)
1786-1026 Carl David Skogman* civil servant active in Sweden’s finances/ to Sweden at age 17 - Loviisa, Sweden-Finland (1856/69)
1786-1116 Margareta Högman* religious leader - Ii, Sweden-Finland (1849/62)
1786-1118 Henry Bishop* composer - London, England (1856/68)
1786-1118 Carl Maria von Weber* German pianist/ composer/conductor - Eutin, Bishopric of Lübeck (1826/38)
1786-1209 Juho Mikonpoika Latva-Luhtasela** farmer/son of Mikko Mikonpoika Latva-Luhtasela & Maria Juhontytär Latva-Luhtasela (b Sihto) - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1852/65)
1786-1210 Jakob Johan Malmberg* civil servant/translator - Kuopio, Sweden-Finland (1845/58)
1786-1212 William L. Marcy* lawyer/politician/ statesman - Sturbridge, Massachusetts Bay (1857/70)
1786-1230 Bjarni Thorarensen* poet/ civil servant - Brautarholt, Iceland (1841/57)
Updated 5.4.2023-4
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