1785

Years:
1782 1783 1784 – 1785 – 1786 1787 1788

Decades:
1750s 1760s 1770s – 1780s – 1790s 1800s 1810s

Centuries:
17th century – 18th century – 19th century

1785 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada – Science

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

Events

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 founded
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 Përouse leaves Paris for circumnavigation
August 15 – Cardinal de Rohan is arrested in Paris – the necklace affair comes into open
November – Drought in Haiti

University of New Brunswick founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Coal gas 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

January 4 – Jakob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist, and writer (d. 1863)
January 4 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (d. 1831)
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)
August 15 – Thomas de Quincey, English writer (d. 1859)
August 23 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)

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