1785

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

Events

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
The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Lincolnton, North Carolina (named for American General Benjamin Lincoln) as the new county seat for Lincoln County.

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

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

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 29 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian author (b. 1742)

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