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What Happened in August 1786

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Aug 8 Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe

United States One Dollar Bill

Aug 8 US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America

Image of the first US one dollar bill (United States Note) issued in 1862

Aug 11 Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia
Aug 29 Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising in Springfield and Worcester, Massachusetts, by citizens in opposition to the government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their businesses

Famous Birthdays

Aug 1 Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs, born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1861)

Davy Crockett (1786-1836)

Aug 17 American frontiersman, adventurer and politician, born in Greene County, Tennessee

Davy Crockett

Aug 17 Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria, born in Coburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1861)
Aug 25 Ludwig I, King of Bavaria (1825-48), born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1868)

Famous Deaths

Aug 7 Friedrich Schwindl, Dutch composer, dies at 49
Aug 15 Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar and critic, dies at 56
Aug 16 Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer and violinist, dies at 80

Frederick the Great (1712-1786)

Aug 17 King of Prussia (1740-86), dies at 74

Frederick the Great

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