1785

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Years:	1782 1783 1784 – 1785 – 1786 1787 1788

1785 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature ( Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada – Great Britain – United States

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1785 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1785 MDCCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2538
Armenian calendar	1234 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	6535
Bahá'í calendar	-59–-58
Bengali calendar	1192
Berber calendar	2735
British Regnal year	25 Geo. 3 – 26 Geo. 3
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	1841–1842
- Shaka Samvat	1707–1708
- Kali Yuga	4886–4887
Holocene calendar	11785
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	785–786
Iranian calendar	1163–1164
Islamic calendar	1199–1200
Japanese calendar	Tenmei 5 (天明5年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4118
Minguo calendar	127 before ROC 民前127年
Thai solar calendar	2328

Year 1785 (MDCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

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 20 – Invading Siamese forces, attempting to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
• January 27 – The University of Georgia is founded.
• May 10 – A hot air balloon crashes in Tullamore, Ireland, causing a fire that burns down about 100 houses, making it the world's first aviation disaster (by 36 days).
• June 3 – Continental Navy disbanded.
• June 15 – 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, making it the first fatal 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).
• July 16 – The Piper-Heidsieck Champagne house is founded by Florens-Louis Heidsieck in Reims, France.
• August 1 – The fleet of French explorer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de 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.

Date unknown

• 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 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.
• Napoleon Bonaparte becomes a lieutenant in the French artillery.
• Music: Mozart's "Haydn" String Quartets are published.

Births

• 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 (d. 1840)
• 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 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 scholar and critic (b. 1713)
• January 23 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
• February 26 – Barbara Erni Liechtenstein Confidence trickster (b. 1743)
• 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)