About the day » Thursday April 20, 1786Calender converter

• Andries Reijntjes, Herwen en Aerdt († 1858)
• Anne Catherine SCHEEN, BAELEN-sur-VESDRE, Liège, Belgique († 1807)
• Alexander MacDonald, Rogart, Sutherland, Scotland († 1858)
• johann Heinrich benedic Steinbuch, bardenberg
• Antonetta Adriaens Verdoorn, Genderen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Vissers, Waspik, Provincie Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1820)
• Aafke Buil, Zevenhuizen, Westerkwartier, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Mestrom (Mestrum), Maasbracht († 1864)
• Allagonda van Grunsven, Oss († 1828)
• Aloyse WERNERT, Lixhausen (67270, Bas-Rhin, France) († 1856)

• Catharina Elisabeth Herinx (56), Schinveld, Limburg, Nederland
• Brand van der Linden, Charlois, Rotterdam
• IJsbrand Hendriksz Van Der LINDEN (37)
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• Christina Schafer (55), Acht, Langenfeld, Rheinland, Prussia
• Anna Grootjans (28), Attenrode-Wever (St Antonius)
• Adrianus Nuijten (22), Halsteren,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Stevens, Ter Hole
• Ichabod Camp (60), Kaskaskia, Randolph, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Elizabeth Curd, Charlotte County, Virginia

• 1745 » Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist († 1826)
• 1748 » Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian († 1831)
• 1772 » William Lawless, Irish revolutionary and French general († 1824)
• 1808 » Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France († 1873)
• 1816 » Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer († 1895)
• 1818 » Heinrich Göbel, German-American mechanic and engineer († 1893)
• 1826 » Dinah Craik, English author and poet († 1887)
• 1836 » Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American scientist and academic († 1895)
• 1839 » Carol I of Romania, King of Romania († 1914)
• 1840 » Odilon Redon, French painter and illustrator († 1916)

• 1703 » Lancelot Addison, English clergyman and educator (b. 1632)
• 1769 » Chief Pontiac, American tribal leader (b. 1720)
• 1831 » John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (b. 1764)
• 1873 » William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798)
• 1874 » Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1817)
• 1881 » William Burges, English architect and designer (b. 1827)
• 1886 » Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French general and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1814)
• 1887 » Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1826)
• 1899 » Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (b. 1833)

• 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)
• May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
• August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
• August 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
• August 29 » Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
• November 7 » The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• December 4 » Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).

The temperature on April 20, 1786 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by south. Weather type: omtrent helder.