1785

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:
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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).

1 Events of 1785
2 Births
3 Deaths

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).
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. 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-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.

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 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.

Births

**1785 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1785 MDCCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2538
Armenian calendar	1234 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-59 – -58
Bengali calendar	1192
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
- Bikram Samwat	1841 – 1842
- 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 (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)