1785

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).

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, 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.

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

Undated

• 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.
• 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

Births

• January 4 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist, and writer (d. 1863)
• January 4 - 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 Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)
• September 27 - David Walker, Abolitionist (d. 1830)
• 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)

Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1785 births.

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, Duke of Choiseul, 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, 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)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

1785

Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1785 deaths.af:1785

am:1785 እ.ኤ.አ. ar:1785 an:1785 ast:1785 az:1785 bn:১৭৮৫ map-bms:1785 be:1785 be-x-old:1785 bh:१७८५ bs:1785 br:1785 bg:1785 ca:1785 cv:1785 cs:1785 co:1785 cy:1785 da:1785 de:1785 et:1785 el:1785 es:1785 eo:1785 eu:1785 fr:1785 ga:1785 gd:1785 gl:1785 ko:1785년 hy:1785 hi:1785 hr:1785. io:1785 bpy:মারি ১৭৮৫ id:1785 ia:1785 os:1785 is:1785 it:1785 he:1785 jv:1785 ka:1785 csb:1785 sw:1785 ht:1785 (almanak gregoryen) la:1785 lb:1785 lt:1785 lmo:1785 hu:1785 mk:1785 mi:1785 mr:इ.स. १७८५ ms:1785 nah:1785 nl:1785 new:१७८५ ja:1785年 nap:1785 no:1785 nn:1785 nrm:1785 nov:1785 oc:1785 uz:1785 pi:१७८५ nds:1785 pl:1785 pt:1785 ksh:Joohr 1785 ro:1785 ru:1785 год sa:१७८५ sq:1785 scn:1785 simple:1785 sk:1785 sl:1785 sr:1785 su:1785 fi:1785 sv:1785 tl:1785 tt:1785 th:พ.ศ. 2328 tr:1785 uk:1785 vec:1785 wa:1785 vls:1785 zh-yue:1785年