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1785
was a
common year starting on Saturday
(see link for calendar).
Events
January 1st
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
-
Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
January 4
-
Jakob Grimm
, German philologist, folklorist, and writer (d.
1863
)
March 27
-
Louis XVII of France
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
)
August 15
-
Thomas de Quincey
, English writer (d.
1859
)
August 23
-
Oliver Hazard Perry
, American naval officer
Deaths
January 3
-
Baldassare Galuppi
, composer
May 8
-
Etienne Francois, Duke of Choiseul
, French statesman
December 29
-
Johan Herman Wessel
, Norwegian author
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