1785
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Template:C18YearInTopicX Year 1785 (MDCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link 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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[edit] Events of 1785
[edit] 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, but 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.
[edit] July - December
- July 6 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States. This is the first time a nation has adopted a decimal coinage system.
- August 1 - Fleet of French explorer Jean Francois de Galoup, count la Pérouse leaves Paris for circumnavigation.
- August 15 - Cardinal de Rohan is arrested in Paris - the necklace affair comes into open.
- November - Drought occurs in Haiti.
- November 28 - Treaty of Hopewell signed between United States of America and Cherokee Nation
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- University of New Brunswick is founded in Fredericton, Canada.
- Coal gas is first used for illumination.
- Louis XVI of France signs to a law that a handkerchief must be square.
- British government establishes a permanent land 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
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1785 MDCCLXXXV
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| Ab urbe condita | 2538 |
| Armenian calendar | 1234 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -59 – -58 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2329 |
| 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
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2445 (皇紀2445年) |
| Julian calendar | 1830 |
| Korean calendar | 4118 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2328 |
- January 4 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist, and writer (d. 1863)
- January 4 - Friedrich Wilhelm (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)
- July 6 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
- August 15 - Thomas de Quincey, English writer (d. 1859)
- August 23 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)
- 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)
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[edit] Deaths
- January 3 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
- January 19 - Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
- January 23 - Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
- April 14 - William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
- May 8 - Etienne Francois, French statesman (b. 1719)
- May 8 - 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, 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, 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)
[edit] People of the year 1785 at Familypedia
10 people were born in 1785
6 people died in 1785
513 people lived in 1785
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