Editing 1786 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 3]] &ndash; The third [[Treaty of Hopewell]] is signed between the [[United States]] and the [[Choctaw]].
* [[January 6]] &ndash; The outward bound [[East Indiaman]] ''[[Halsewell (East Indiaman)|Halsewell]]'' is wrecked on the south coast of England in a storm, with only 74 of more than 240 on board surviving.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Loss of the Halsewell East-Indiaman|title=Remarkable Shipwrecks; Or, A Collection of Interesting Accounts of Naval Disasters: With Many Particulars of the Extraordinary Adventures and Sufferings of the Crews of Vessels Wrecked at Sea, and of Their Treatment on Distant Shores. Together with an Account of the Deliverance of Survivors|url=https://archive.org/details/remarkableshipw00stargoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/remarkableshipw00stargoog/page/n248 214]|access-date=2013-02-02|year=1813|publisher=Andrus and Starr}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] &ndash; In a speech before [[The Asiatic Society]] in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[William Jones (philologist)|Sir William Jones]] notes the formal resemblances between [[Latin]], [[Ancient Greek|Greek]], and [[Sanskrit]], laying the foundation for [[historical linguistics|comparative linguistics]] and [[Indo-European studies]].
* [[March 1]] &ndash; The [[Ohio Company of Associates]] is organized by five businessmen at a meeting at the [[Bunch-of-Grapes]] Tavern in [[Boston]] to purchase land from the United States government to form settlements in the modern-day U.S. state of [[Ohio]].<ref>"Manasseh Cutler, the Man Who Purchased Ohio", by William F. Poole, in ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' (April 1873) p161</ref><ref>''The Cincinnati Directory Advertiser for the Years 1836–7'' (J. H. Woodruff, 1836) p198</ref> 
* [[March 13]] &ndash; Construction begins in [[Dublin]] on the [[Four Courts]] Building, with the first stone laid down by the United Kingdom's Viceroy for Ireland, the [[Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland|Duke of Rutland]].<ref>Sir John Carr, ''The Stranger in Ireland, Or, A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country in the Year 1805'' (Lincoln & Gleason, 1806) p274</ref>