This Year in History:
1786
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
On this day in history, future President James Monroe weds a 17‑year‑old New York beauty named Elizabeth Kortright. The 26‑year‑old Monroe, already a famous revolutionary and practicing lawyer, married not…
On this day in 1786, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, the younger of the two Brothers Grimm, is born in Hanau, Germany. As young men, the two brothers assisted friends in compiling…
By 1786, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was probably the most experienced and accomplished 30‑year‑old musician the world has ever seen, with dozens of now‑canonical symphonies, concertos, sonatas, chamber works and masses…
On October 12, 1786, a lovesick Thomas Jefferson composes a romantic and introspective letter to a woman named Maria Cosway. Early in 1786, widower Thomas Jefferson met Maria Cosway in…
On this day in 1786, Robert Burns decides not to emigrate to Jamaica, as he had planned, and heads for Edinburgh instead. Burns, the son of a poor farmer, received…
