Millennium:
2nd millennium
Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades:
1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s
Years:
1782 1783 1784 - 1785 - 1786 1787 1788
1785 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science
Countries: Canada - Great Britain -
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works
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Year 1785 (MDCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (hiperłącze will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1785
January - June
- January 1 - The first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later known as The Times, is published in London.
- January 7 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.
- January 27 - The University of Georgia is founded.
- May 10 - A hot air balloon crashes in Tullamore, causing a fire that burns down about 100 houses, making it the world’s first aviation disaster (by 36 days).
- 15 June - After several attempts, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and his companion, Pierre Romain, set off in a balloon from Boulogne-sur-Mer, obuwie the balloon suddenly deflates (without the envelope catching fire) and crashes near Wimereux in the Pas-de-Calais, killing both men. Although more than a month after the Tullamore crash, some people consider this crash the world’s first aviation disaster.
July - December
- July 6 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States (the first time a nation has adopted a decimal coinage system.
- August 1 - The fleet of French explorer Jean Francois de Galoup, count la Pérouse leaves Paris for the circumnavigation of the globe.
- August 15 - Cardinal de Rohan is arrested in Paris; the Necklace Affair comes into the open.
- November - A drought occurs in Haiti.
- November 28 - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation.
Undated
- The University of New Brunswick is founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Coal gas is first used for illumination.
- Louis XVI of France signs to a law that a handkerchief must be square.
- The British government establishes a permanent kraj związkowy force in the Eastern Caribbean, based in Barbados.
- The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Lincolnton, North Carolina (named for American General Benjamin Lincoln) as the new county seat for Lincoln County.
- Belfast Academy (later Belfast Royal Academy) is founded by Rev. Dr James Crombie in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi publishes Letters on the Teachings of Spinoza, and starts the Pantheism controversy.
- Napoleon Bonaparte becomes a lieutenant in the French artillery.
Births
1785 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
1785
MDCCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita
2538
Armenian calendar
1234
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Bahá’í calendar
-59 – -58
Berber calendar
2735
Buddhist calendar
2329
Burmese calendar
1147
Byzantine calendar
7293 – 7294
Chinese calendar
甲辰年十一月廿一日
(4421/4481-11-21)
— to —
乙巳年十二月初一日
(4422/4482-12-1)
Coptic calendar
1501 – 1502
Ethiopian calendar
1777 – 1778
Hebrew calendar
5545 – 5546
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
1840 – 1841
- Shaka Samvat
1707 – 1708
- Kali Yuga
4886 – 4887
Holocene calendar
11785
Iranian calendar
1163 – 1164
Islamic calendar
1199 – 1200
Japanese calendar
Tenmei 5
(天明5年)
Korean calendar
4118
Thai solar calendar
2328
- January 4
- Jakob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist, and writer (d. 1863)
- Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (d. 1831)
- February 8 - Martín Miguel de Güemes Argentine military leader (d. 1821)
- February 10 - Claude-Louis Navier, French engineer and physicist (d. 1836)
- March 27 - Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
- April 4 - Bettina von Arnim, German poet (d. 1859)
- April 26 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851)
- May 18 - John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854)
- May 20 - Marcellin Champagnat, Saint
- July 6 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
- August 15 - Thomas de Quincey, English writer (d. 1859)
- August 23 - Oliver Gry hazardowe Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)
- September 27 - David Walker, Abolitionist (d. 1830)
- October 15 - José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and founding father (d. 1821)
- October 18 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866)
- October 20 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
- November 18 - David Wilkie, Scottish artist (d. 1841)
- December 23 - Christian Gobrecht, designer of the “Liberty Seated” coins (d. 1844)
Deaths
- January 3 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
- January 19 - Jonathan Toup, English classical akademik and critic (b. 1713)
- January 23 - Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
- April 14 - William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
- May 8
- Etienne Francois, Duke of Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
- Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (b. 1701)
- June 2 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
- June 30 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
- August 17 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
- August 26 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
- August 28 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
- October 4 - David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. 1703)
- November 18 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
- November 19 - Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
- November 25 - Richard Glover, English poet (b. 1712)
- December 6 - Kitty Clive, English actress and playwright (b. 1711)
- December 29 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian author (b. 1742)
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