Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1786
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Literature
- Robert Burns publishes Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.
- William Beckford publishes Vathek.
Theatre
- John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery exhibits pictures of actors
performing in Shakespeare's plays through 1787
Art
Music
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Ezekial Reed of America invents the nail-making machine
Politics & Law
- Shays's Rebellion, Massachusetts, December 1786-January 1787
Theology
Milestones
- Death of John Stanley, composer
Miscellaneous
- Two French mountaineers, Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard,
are the first to scale Mont Blanc.
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