1786 in Great Britain

1786 in Great Britain:

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Sport

1786 English cricket season

Events from the year 1786 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

Events

• August - British Cabinet approves the establishment of a penal colony at Botany Bay to serve as "a remedy for the evils likely to result from the late alarming and numerous increase of felons in this country and more particularly i the metropolis (London)".
• 11 August - Captain Francis Light landed in Penang and renamed it "Prince of Wales Island" in honour of the heir to the British throne.^[1]
• 26 September - Commercial treaty with France signed.^[2]

Publications

• William Thomas Beckford's gothic novel Vathek.^[1]
• Robert Burns' Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.^[2]

Births

• 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

• 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

See also

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