- 1786 in Great Britain
Events from the year
1786 in theKingdom of Great Britain .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -William Pitt the Younger ,Tory Events
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11 August - CaptainFrancis Light landed inPenang and renamed it "Prince of Wales Island" in honour of the heir to the British throne.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=339]
*26 September - Commercial treaty withFrance signed.Publications
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William Thomas Beckford 's gothic novel "Vathek ".
*Robert Burns ' "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect".cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 230-231|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]Births
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1 January -Dixon Denham , explorer (died 1828)
*26 January -Benjamin Haydon , painter and writer (died 1846)
*17 April - William King, physician and philanthropist (died 1865)
*5 July -Charles Alfred Stothard , draughtsman (died 1821)
*24 September -Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock , naval officer (died 1857)
*26 September -James Bremer , rear admiral (died 1850)Unknown dates
* James Foster, ironmaster (died 1853)
*William George Horner , mathematician (died 1837)
*Anne Knight , social reformer (died 1862)
*Fairfax Moresby , Admiral (died 1877)
* Hyde Parker, Vice Admiral (died 1854)
* John Shuttleworth, industrialist (died 1864)Deaths
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19 January - John Duncombe, writer (born 1729)
*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)References
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