8 events found for 1786
A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan pr
Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontar
The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.