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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 ).

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 America n 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, widely recognised as the worlds first aviation diasater

Univ. Of Georgia

July - December

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 occurs in Haiti .

Undated

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.

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

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 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 )

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 )

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 )

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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 )

May 8 - 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 )

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