Events
Births
- January 8 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (+ 1844)
- January 23 - Auguste de Montferrand, architect (d. 1858)
- February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm, philologist, folklorist (+ 1859)
- March 22 - Joachim Lelewel, Polish nationalist historian (+ 1861)
- August 17 - David "Davy" Crockett (+ 1836)
- August 25 - Ludwig I, King of Bavaria
- September 18 - King Christian VIII of Denmark
- September 24 - Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur.
- November 18/December 18 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer
- Henry Bishop, English composer
- Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer
- Balusvami Dikshitar, brother of composer Muttuswami Dikshitar and introducer of the violin into Carnatic music
Deaths
af:1786
ast:1786
bg:1786
ca:1786
cs:1786
cy:1786
da:1786
de:1786
et:1786
el:1786
es:1786
eo:1786
eu:1786
fr:1786
hr:1786
is:1786
it:1786
he:1786
hu:1786
nl:1786
no:1786
pl:1786
pt:1786
ro:1786
ru:1786
sl:1786
sr:1786
fi:1786
sv:1786
tr:1786
uk:1786
wa:1786
zh:1786年