WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1786
Find out what all happened April to September 1786

Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts in a military standoff that begins Shays' Rebellion. (26. September 1786)

Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. (25. June 1786)

In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's the opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time. (1. May 1786)

Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens. (29. August 1786)

Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. (29. June 1786)

Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia. (11. August 1786)

Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard. (8. August 1786)

A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China. (10. June 1786)

The beginning of the Annapolis Convention. (11. September 1786)

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