1786Birth of John CartwrightJohn Cartwright
Birth of John Cartwright
Historical records for Great Britain in 1786, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Birth of John Cartwright
Appointed Captain
The Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars was first published in 1786 by William Herschel in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Publication of "Catalogue of One Thousand New Nebulae and Clusters of Stars"
Appointed Commander in Chief, India
The Catalogue of One Thousand New Nebulae and Clusters of Stars is published
Enters School of Equitation, Angers, Anjou
Appointed Governor General of India, 1st term
Invents the breech-loading musket
Invents the first successful threshing machine
1st elected to Parliament, Member of Parliament for Northumberland for the next 20 yrs
Pitt establishes a sinking fund intended to reduce the national debt.
Wilberforce receives a letter from Captain Sir Charles Middleton, MP, and father-in-law of his old friend Gerard Edwards, which was to ignite again his old interest in the subject of the slave trade
Negotiates a favourable commercial Treaty with France
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