1786 in Great Britain explained
Events from the year 1786 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Unknown date
Publications
Births
- 1 January – Dixon Denham, explorer (died 1828)
- 26 January – Benjamin Haydon, painter and writer (suicide 1846)
- 1 April – Fowell Buxton, brewer, politician, abolitionist and social reformer (died 1845)
- 17 April – William King, physician and philanthropist (died 1865)
- 9 May – James Foster, ironmaster (died 1853)
- 9 June – William George Horner, mathematician (died 1837)
- 5 July – Charles Alfred Stothard, draughtsman (died 1821)
- 24 September – Granville Waldegrave, naval officer (died 1857)
- 26 September – Gordon Bremer, rear admiral (died 1850)
- 2 November – Anne Knight, social reformer (died 1862)
- 29 November – Fairfax Moresby, Calcutta-born admiral of the fleet (died 1877)
- 11 December – William John Bankes, MP, explorer and Egyptologist (died 1855 in exile)
- Unknown date
Deaths
- 19 January – John Duncombe, writer (born 1729)
- 25 February – Thomas Wright, astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect, garden designer, antiquary and genealogist (born 1711)
- 10 April – John Byron, Vice Admiral (born 1723)
- 21 June – George Hepplewhite, furniture maker (born 1727)
- July – Josiah Martin, colonial governor (born 1737)
- 18 October – Alexander Wilson, mathematician (born 1714)
- 31 October – Princess Amelia of Great Britain (b. 1711)[9]
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK . www.gov.uk . 1 July 2023 . en.
- Book: Loss of the Halsewell East-Indiaman. Remarkable Shipwrecks; Or, A Collection of Interesting Accounts of Naval Disasters: With Many Particulars of the Extraordinary Adventures and Sufferings of the Crews of Vessels Wrecked at Sea, and of Their Treatment on Distant Shores. Together with an Account of the Deliverance of Survivors. 2013-02-02. 1813. Hartford. Andrus and Starr. 214-25.
- Web site: Phoebe Harris, burnt for coining in 1786. Capital Punishment U.K. 2024-02-11.
- Eigen. Joel Peter. 2004. 20145. Nicholson, Margaret (1750?–1828).
- Book: Williams, Hywel. Cassell's Chronology of World History. London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. 0-304-35730-8. 339.
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- Greeves. Tom. 1987. The Great Courts or Parliaments of the Devon Tinners. Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science. 119. 143–66.
- Book: Palmer, Alan. Palmer. Veronica. 1992. The Chronology of British History. Century Ltd. London. 230–231. 0-7126-5616-2.
- Web site: Princess Amelia . Westminster Abbey . 8 October 2022 . en.