About the day » Monday January 23, 1786Calender converter

• Catrina Casant van, Axel, Zeeland, Nederland († 1827)
• Aaltjen Teunis, Vorchten (Gem. Heerde)
• Aaltjen Teunis Zwerus, Vorgten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alexander Cretzmer, Jheringsfehn
• Anna Catharina Plompen, Woensdrecht († 1879)
• Anna Ludovica SCHOOFS, Diepenbeek, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie († 1858)
• Anna Catharina Van Elsen, Betekom, 3130, België († 1840)
• Antje Coster, Leeuwarden
• Bella Gottschalk, Metelen, Steinfurt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 1861)
• Anna Catharina Plompen, Woensdrecht († 1879)

• Catharina Buijs, Amersfoort
• Johanes Kohout (50), Nezabudice 11-u Rakovníka
• Jacobus Verstraten (0), Zaamslag, Zeeland, Nederland
• Jeanne BULTEAU (46), Poiré-sur-Vie, 85178, Vendée, Pays de la Loire, France
• Ebenezer Sprout II (69)
• Gerardus Kuys (48), Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Egidius Pinters, Melsele
• Cornelis Pietersz Tol (26)
• Joes Hermannus Robben (56), Geest, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Cajetan Seguin-Laderoute (61), Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

• 1745 » William Jessop, English engineer, built the Cromford Canal († 1814)
• 1752 » Muzio Clementi, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1832)
• 1780 » Georgios Karaiskakis, Greek general († 1827)
• 1783 » Stendhal, French novelist († 1842)
• 1786 » Auguste de Montferrand, French-Russian architect, designed Saint Isaac's Cathedral and Alexander Column († 1858)
• 1799 » Alois Negrelli, Tyrolean engineer and railroad pioneer active in the Austrian Empire († 1858)
• 1809 » Surendra Sai, Indian activist († 1884)
• 1813 » Camilla Collett, Norwegian novelist and activist († 1895)
• 1828 » Saigō Takamori, Japanese samurai († 1877)
• 1832 » Édouard Manet, French painter († 1883)

• 1785 » Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician and academic (b. 1717)
• 1789 » Frances Brooke, English author and playwright (b. 1724)
• 1789 » John Cleland, English author (b. 1709)
• 1800 » Edward Rutledge, American captain and politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1749)
• 1803 » Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer, founded Guinness (b. 1725)
• 1805 » Claude Chappe, French engineer (b. 1763)
• 1806 » William Pitt the Younger, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
• 1810 » Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776)
• 1812 » Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (b. 1764)
• 1820 » Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
• June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
• August 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
• August 29 » Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
• November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).

The temperature on January 23, 1786 was about 3.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist.