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1786 in the United States
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April–June
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October–December
Undated
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Births
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Events from the year
1786 in the United States
.
Incumbents
President of the Continental Congress
:
John Hancock
(until June 6),
Nathaniel Gorham
(June–November)
Events
January–March
January 3
–
The
Treaty of Hopewell
is signed between the
United States of America
and the
Choctaw
Nation.
January 10
–
The
Treaty of Hopewell
is signed between the
United States of America
and the
Chickasaw Nation
.
January 31
–
The
Treaty of Fort Finney
, is signed on January 31, 1786, between the United States and certain leaders of the
Shawnee
.
March 26
–
Columbia, South Carolina
is chartered as the first planned city in the United States.
April–June
June 25
–
Gavriil Pribylov
discovers
St. George Island
of the
Pribilof Islands
in the
Bering Sea
.
July–September
August
–
James Rumsey
tests his first steam boat in the
Potomac River
at
Shepherdstown
Virginia (now
West Virginia
).
August 29
–
Shays' Rebellion
begins in
Massachusetts
.
September 11-14
–
Annapolis Convention
October–December
November 7
–
The oldest musical organization in the
United States
(the
Stoughton Musical Society
) is founded.
December 4
–
Mission Santa Barbara
is founded by
Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén
, becoming the 10th mission in the
California mission
chain.
Undated
The town of
Martinsborough, North Carolina
, itself named for Royal Governor
Josiah Martin
in 1771, is renamed "Greenesville" in honor of United States General
Nathanael Greene
by the
North Carolina General Assembly
; the name "Greenesville" is later shortened to become
Greenville
.
Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey
established.
The United States pays
protection money
to the
Sultan of Morocco
to ensure the safety of American merchantmen in the
Mediterranean Sea
from Barbary pirates.
Ongoing
Articles of Confederation
in effect (1781–1788)
Northwest Indian War
(1785–1795)
Births
January 7
–
John Catron
, lawyer and jurist (died
1865
)
January 8
–
Nicholas Biddle
, President of the Second Bank of the United States (died
1844
)
January 24
–
Walter Forward
, lawyer and politician, 15th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1841 to 1843 (died
1852
)
February 24
–
Martin W. Bates
, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1857 to 1859 (died
1869
)
April 6
–
Robert Hanna
, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1831 to 1832 (died
1858
)
April 7
–
William R. King
, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1819 to 1844; 13th
vice president of the United States
from March to April 1853 (died
1853
)
May 28
–
Louis McLane
, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1827 to 1829 (died
1857
)
May 29
–
Alexander Bryan Johnson
, philosopher (died
1867
)
June 13
–
Winfield Scott
, general, presidential candidate (died
1866
)
August 14
–
John Tipton
, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1832 to 1839 (died in
1839
)
August 17
–
Davy Crockett
, frontiersman (died
1836
)
September 10
–
William Mason
, New York politician (died
1860
)
September 22
–
William Kelly
, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1822 to 1825 (died
1834
)
November 22
–
Cyrus Kingsbury
, Congregationalist missionary to Cherokee and Choctaw tribes (died
1870
in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory)
December 12
–
William L. Marcy
, statesman (died
1857
)
December 15
–
Edward Coles
, planter, politician and 2nd
governor of Illinois
(died
1868
)
Deaths
January 14
–
Meshech Weare
, Governor of New Hampshire (born
1713
)
March 11
–
Charles Humphreys
, delegate to the Continental Congress (born
1714
)
June 19
–
Nathanael Greene
, major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (born
1742
)
October 25
–
Charles Mason
, surveyor (born
1728 in Great Britain
)
December
–
Nonhelema
,
Shawnee
chieftess, sister of
Cornstalk
See also
Prussian scheme
Timeline of the American Revolution (1760–1789)
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