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Events of 1785

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 is founded.
May 10 - A hot air balloon crashes in Tullamore, causing a fire that burns down about 100 houses, making it the world's first aviation disaster (by 36 days).
15 June - 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. Although more than a month after the Tullamore crash, some people consider this crash the world's first aviation disaster.

July 6 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States (the first time a nation has adopted a decimal coinage system.
August 1 - The fleet of French explorer Jean Francois de Galoup, count la Pérouse leaves Paris for the circumnavigation of the globe.
August 15 - Cardinal de Rohan is arrested in Paris; the Necklace Affair comes into the open.

The 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.
The 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.
Napoleon Bonaparte becomes a lieutenant in the French artillery.

See also Category: 1785 births.

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)

See also Category: 1785 deaths.

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