1785

1785 (MDCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1785th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 785th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1785, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
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1785 by topic
Arts and science
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  • Poetry
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Countries
  • Austria
  • Canada
  • Denmark
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  • Great Britain
  • Ireland
  • Norway
  • Russia
  • Scotland
  • Sweden
  • United States
Lists of leaders
  • State leaders
  • Colonial governors
  • Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
  • Births
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Establishments and disestablishments categories
  • Establishments
  • Disestablishments
Works category
  • Works
1785 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1785
MDCCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita2538
Armenian calendar1234
ԹՎ ՌՄԼԴ
Assyrian calendar6535
Balinese saka calendar1706–1707
Bengali calendar1192
Berber calendar2735
British Regnal year25 Geo. 3 – 26 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2329
Burmese calendar1147
Byzantine calendar7293–7294
Chinese calendar甲辰年 (Wood Dragon)
4481 or 4421
    — to —
乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4482 or 4422
Coptic calendar1501–1502
Discordian calendar2951
Ethiopian calendar1777–1778
Hebrew calendar5545–5546
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1841–1842
 - Shaka Samvat1706–1707
 - Kali Yuga4885–4886
Holocene calendar11785
Igbo calendar785–786
Iranian calendar1163–1164
Islamic calendar1199–1200
Japanese calendarTenmei 5
(天明５年)
Javanese calendar1711–1712
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4118
Minguo calendar127 before ROC
民前127年
Nanakshahi calendar317
Thai solar calendar2327–2328
Tibetan calendar阳木龙年
(male Wood-Dragon)
1911 or 1530 or 758
    — to —
阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
1912 or 1531 or 759
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January 7: Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries travel from Dover to Calais in a gas balloon

Events

January–March
  • 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 11 – Richard Henry Lee is elected as President of the U.S. Congress of the Confederation.[1]
  • January 20 – Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút: Invading Siamese forces, attempting to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River, by the Tây Sơn.
  • January 27 – The University of Georgia in the United States is chartered by the Georgia General Assembly meeting in Savannah. The first students are admitted in Athens, Georgia in 1801.
  • February 9 – Sir Warren Hastings, who has been governing India on behalf of King George III as the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William (later British India), resigns. Sir John Macpherson administers British India until General Charles Cornwallis arrives 19 months later.[2]
  • February 27 – The Confederation Congress votes an $80,000 expense to establish diplomatic relations with Morocco.[3]
  • March 7 – Scottish geologist James Hutton first presents his landmark work, Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[4]
  • General Henry Knox is appointed as the Confederation Congress's Secretary of War, with added duties as the Secretary of Navy, both functions now of the U.S. Department of Defense.[1]
  • March 10
    • American engineer James Rumsey sends a letter to George Washington informing of his plans to create a successful steamboat.[5]
    • Thomas Jefferson is appointed the new U.S. Minister to France, and Benjamin Franklin's request for permission to return home is accepted.[1]

April–June
  • April 19 – The Commonwealth of Massachusetts cedes all of its claims to territory west of New York State to the United States Confederation Congress. The area will become the southern portions of Michigan and Wisconsin.[6][1]
  • April 21 – The Empress Catherine the Great of the Russian Empire issues the Charter to the Towns, providing for "a coherent, unified system of administration" for new governments organized in Russia.
  • April 26 – John Adams is appointed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, and Thomas Jefferson as ambassador to France.[7]
  • April 28 – Astronomer William Herschel begins his second series of surveys of the stars, published in 1789.[8]
  • 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).[9]
  • May 20 – The Northwest Ordinance of 1785, setting the rules for dividing the U.S. Northwest Territory (later Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan) into townships of 36 square miles apiece, is passed by the Confederation Congress. Walter G. Robillard and Lane J. Bouman, Clark on Surveying and Boundaries (LexisNexis, 1997) The survey system will later be applied to the continent west of the Mississippi River.[1]
  • June 3 – The Continental Navy is 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–September

October–December

Date unknown
  • The University of New Brunswick is founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Cabinet des Modes, the first fashion magazine, is published in France.
  • Mozart's "Haydn" String Quartets are published, as is his collaboration with Salieri and Cornetti, Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia.

Births
Jacob Grimm
John James Audubon
Oliver Hazard Perry

Deaths
Baldassare Galuppi
  • January 3 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)[19]
  • January 6 – Haym Salomon, Polish-Jewish American financier of the American Revolution (b. 1740)
  • January 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar, critic (b. 1713)
  • January 23 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
  • February 24 – Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet (b. 1722)
  • February 26 – Barbara Erni, Liechtenstein confidence trickster (b. 1743)
  • March 14 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director (b. 1713)
  • April 14 – William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
  • April 26 – Johan Samuel Augustin, German-Danish astronomical writer, civil servant (b. 1715)
  • May 8
    • Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
    • Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (b. 1701)
  • June 2
    • Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
    • Gottfried August Homilius, German composer, cantor and organist (b. 1714)[20]
  • June 30 – James Oglethorpe, English general, founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
  • July 5 – Anne Poulett, British politician (b. 1711)
  • July 6 – Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1711)
  • July 9 – William Strahan, British politician (b. 1715)
  • July 12 – Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais, French jurist on the so-called "Brittany affair" (b. 1701)
  • July 13 – Stephen Hopkins, Founding Father of the United States (b. 1707)
  • July 17 – Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, British duchess (b. 1715)
  • August 17 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
  • August 26 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier, politician (b. 1716)
  • August 28 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
  • August 31 – Pietro Chiari, Italian playwright (b. 1712)
  • September 19 – Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Queen consort of Sardinia (b. 1729)
  • September 30 – Johann Jakob Moser, German jurist (b. 1701)
  • October 4
    • David Brearley, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. 1703)
    • Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (b. 1736)
  • November 13 – Joaquín Ibarra, Spanish printer (b. 1725)
  • November 15 – César Gabriel de Choiseul, French officer (b. 1712)
  • November 18 – Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier, writer (b. 1725)
  • November 19 – Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
  • November 20 – James Wright, Governor of Georgia (b. 1716)
  • November 25 – Richard Glover, English poet (b. 1712)
Kitty Clive
  • December 6 – Kitty Clive, English actress, playwright (b. 1711)[21]
  • December 29 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian author (b. 1742)
  • date unknown – Faustina Pignatelli, Italian mathematician (b. 1705)

References
  1. Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167
  2. G.S.Chhabra, Advance Study in the History of Modern India, Volume-1: 1707-1803 (Lotus Press, 2005) p282
  3. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States of America: From the Signing of the Definitive Treaty of Peace, September 10, 1783 to the Adoption of the Constitution, March 4, 1789, Volume II (Blair & Rives, 1837) p365
  4. Jill Schneiderman, The Earth Around Us: Maintaining A Livable Planet (Henry Holt and Company, 2000) p24
  5. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, Part 1 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1850) p535
  6. The United States: Its Beginnings, Progress and Modern Development, Volume 3, ed. by Edwin Wiley and Irving E. Rines (American Educational Alliance, 1912) p384
  7. Robert V. Remini, John Quincy Adams: 6th President, 1825-1829 (Times Books, 2014) p17
  8. Stephen James O'Meara, Deep-Sky Companions: The Caldwell Objects (Cambridge University Press, 2016) p534
  9. Byrne, Michael (January 9, 2007). "The Tullamore Balloon Fire - First Air Disaster in History". Tullamore History. Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
  10. David C. Harper, ed., 2011 North American Coins and Prices (Krause Publications, 2010) p9
  11. "The Role of Political Revolution in the Theory of International Law", by Theodor Schweisfurth, in The Structure and Process of International Law: Essays in Legal Philosophy, Doctrine and Theory, ed. by R. St.J. Macdonald and Douglas M. Johnston (Martinus Nijhoff, 1986) p913
  12. Lawrence Lewis, A History of the Bank of North America, the First Bank Chartered in the United States" (J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1882) p54
  13. Paul Zall, Benjamin Franklin's Humor (University Press of Kentucky, 2005) p153
  14. "On Air Balloons" (Mechanics Magazine, June 17, 1826) p102
  15. Henry Davison Love, ed., Indian Records Series: Vestiges of Old Madras, 1640-1800 (Mittal Publications, p440
  16. Jean-Baptise Say, A Treatise on Political Economy (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008) p254
  17. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade (Wilberforce University, 1896, reprinted by Oxford University Press, 2014) p xxv
  18. Jasper Ridley, The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society (Skyhorse Publishing, 2011)
  19. Arnold, Denis. "Galuppi's Religious Music", The Musical Times, 1 January 1985, pp. 45–47 and 49–50 (subscription required)
  20. Don Michael Randel, ed. (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 392. ISBN 9780674372993. Homilius, Gottfried August
  21. Kalman Burnim; Edward A. Langhans; Philip H. Highfill (1975). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 357.

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