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

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)af:1785