| SHAYS | Leader of a 1786 rebellion |
| BEAR | ? Symphony, nickname of a 1786 work in C major by Joseph Haydn (4) |
| FIGARO | Central character in a 1786 Mozart opera about a wedding day (6) |
| HESTERLYNCHTHRALE | English writer, author of Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) |
| SHELLEY | Poet whose Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson, written with Thomas Jefferson Hogg, remembers said seamstress who attempted the life of George III in 1786 (7) |
| HUNAU | City in central Germany noted as the birthplace of Jakob (1785) and Wilhelm (1786) Grimm (5) |
| MTSHASTA | 1786 erupter |
| SHASTA | Mount that last erupted in 1786 |
| VATHEK | "Oriental tale" by William Beckford published in 1786 (6) |
| JOST | Historic Sydney house built 1786 |
| FREDERICK | - the Great, Prussian king (1712-1786) |
| MOLSON | John ______ , Montreal brewer since 1786 |
| MARRIAGEOF | The -, 1786 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (8,2) |
| CROCKETT | Davy, 1786-1836, US frontiersman, politician and soldier (8) |
| PENANG | Malaysian state founded by the British East India Company in 1786 (6) |
| MONTBLANC | Peak first ascended in 1786 by Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat (4,5) |
| TEHERAN | Capital city in the Middle East (pop 8.7 million), founded in 1786 (7) |
| WEBER | Baron Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von --, 1786-1826, German composer (5) |
| TOAMOUSE | Common name for Robert Burns's poem published in Scots in 1786 (2,1,5) |
| GOYA | Which Spanish artist was appointed court painter in 1786? (4) |
