1785

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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

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 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)
• November 18 - David Wilkie, Scottish artist (d. 1841)

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)
• 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 19 - Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
• November 25 - Richard Glover, English poet (b. 1712)
• December 29 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian author (b. 1742)