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The year 1786 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Not awarded

Births

• January 5 - Thomas Nuttall (d. 1859), naturalist.
• February 26 - François Arago (d. 1853), mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.

Deaths

• May 21 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (born 1742)
• Thomas Wright, English astronomer (born 1711)