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    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...
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    inspired Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which premiered in Vienna on 1 May 1786. On 24 October 1784, putting the Baron de Breteuil in charge of its acquisition...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Events from the year 1786 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Frederick Haldimand Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton...
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  • 1780s BC (redirect from 1786 BC)
    hunting. 1787-1784 BC: The Amorite civilization conquers Uruk and Isin. 1786 BC: In Egypt, the Twelfth Dynasty ends, and the Thirteenth and Fourteenth...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • composer (born 1712) August 26 – Christoph Christian Sturm, lyricist (born 1786) September 6 – Karl von Ordóñez, composer (born 1734) September 18 – Giovanni...
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    1749. King Grey (1786 ship) (or King Gray), first appeared in online British records in 1786. She made five enslaving voyages between 1786 and 1793. On her...
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    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,...
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    Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate. He served as Commanding General of the United...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Reykjavík (category Populated places established in 1786)
    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    a ship of the French Navy under the name Modeste. Launched in France in 1786, she served during the first actions of the French Revolutionary Wars until...
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    The Marriage of Figaro (category 1786 operas)
    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...
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    Great Britain as Baron Camden, of Camden Place in the County of Kent, and in 1786 he was further honoured when he was created Viscount Bayham, of Bayham Abbey...
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    Frederick the Great (category 1786 deaths)
    (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...
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  • 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...
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  • cricketers List of English cricketers to 1771 List of English cricketers (1772–1786) List of English cricketers (1787–1825) List of English cricketers (1826–1840)...
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    Henry Drummond (5 December 1786 – 20 February 1860), English banker, politician and writer, best known as one of the founders of the Catholic Apostolic...
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  • Events from the year 1786 in Russia Monarch – Catherine II Court Riding Arena in Saint Petersburg begins construction Creaking Pagoda completed in Tsarskoye...
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