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1785

October 18, 2023

1785 (MDCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1785th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 785th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1785, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1785 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1785
MDCCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita2538
Armenian calendar1234
ԹՎ ՌՄԼԴ
Assyrian calendar6535
Balinese saka calendar1706–1707
Bengali calendar1192
Berber calendar2735
British Regnal year25 Geo. 3 – 26 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2329
Burmese calendar1147
Byzantine calendar7293–7294
Chinese calendar甲辰年 (Wood Dragon)
4481 or 4421
    — to —
乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4482 or 4422
Coptic calendar1501–1502
Discordian calendar2951
Ethiopian calendar1777–1778
Hebrew calendar5545–5546
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1841–1842
 - Shaka Samvat1706–1707
 - Kali Yuga4885–4886
Holocene calendar11785
Igbo calendar785–786
Iranian calendar1163–1164
Islamic calendar1199–1200
Japanese calendarTenmei 5
(天明５年)
Javanese calendar1711–1712
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4118
Minguo calendar127 before ROC
民前127年
Nanakshahi calendar317
Thai solar calendar2327–2328
Tibetan calendar阳木龙年
(male Wood-Dragon)
1911 or 1530 or 758
    — to —
阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
1912 or 1531 or 759
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1785.
January 7: Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries travel from Dover to Calais in a gas balloon

Events Edit

January–March Edit

April–June Edit

July–September Edit

October–December Edit

Date unknown Edit

  • Charles Adams, John Adams’ son and John Quincy Adams's brother enters Harvard in August, at age 15. A few months later, he starts to drink often and would get into trouble, and was almost expelled from Harvard when he was caught running naked through the Campus while drunk with other boys.

Births Edit

 
Jacob Grimm
 
John James Audubon
 
Oliver Hazard Perry

Deaths Edit

 
Baldassare Galuppi
 
Kitty Clive

References Edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167
  2. ^ G.S.Chhabra, Advance Study in the History of Modern India, Volume-1: 1707-1803 (Lotus Press, 2005) p282
  3. ^ The Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States of America: From the Signing of the Definitive Treaty of Peace, September 10, 1783 to the Adoption of the Constitution, March 4, 1789, Volume II (Blair & Rives, 1837) p365
  4. ^ Jill Schneiderman, The Earth Around Us: Maintaining A Livable Planet (Henry Holt and Company, 2000) p24
  5. ^ Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, Part 1 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1850) p535
  6. ^ The United States: Its Beginnings, Progress and Modern Development, Volume 3, ed. by Edwin Wiley and Irving E. Rines (American Educational Alliance, 1912) p384
  7. ^ Robert V. Remini, John Quincy Adams: 6th President, 1825-1829 (Times Books, 2014) p17
  8. ^ Stephen James O'Meara, Deep-Sky Companions: The Caldwell Objects (Cambridge University Press, 2016) p534
  9. ^ Byrne, Michael (January 9, 2007). . Tullamore History. Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
  10. ^ David C. Harper, ed., 2011 North American Coins and Prices (Krause Publications, 2010) p9
  11. ^ "The Role of Political Revolution in the Theory of International Law", by Theodor Schweisfurth, in The Structure and Process of International Law: Essays in Legal Philosophy, Doctrine and Theory, ed. by R. St.J. Macdonald and Douglas M. Johnston (Martinus Nijhoff, 1986) p913
  12. ^ Lawrence Lewis, A History of the Bank of North America, the First Bank Chartered in the United States" (J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1882) p54
  13. ^ a b Paul Zall, Benjamin Franklin's Humor (University Press of Kentucky, 2005) p153
  14. ^ "On Air Balloons" (Mechanics Magazine, June 17, 1826) p102
  15. ^ Henry Davison Love, ed., Indian Records Series: Vestiges of Old Madras, 1640-1800 (Mittal Publications, p440
  16. ^ Jean-Baptise Say, A Treatise on Political Economy (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008) p254
  17. ^ W. E. B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade (Wilberforce University, 1896, reprinted by Oxford University Press, 2014) p xxv
  18. ^ Jasper Ridley, The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society (Skyhorse Publishing, 2011)
  19. ^ Arnold, Denis. "Galuppi's Religious Music", The Musical Times, 1 January 1985, pp. 45–47 and 49–50 (subscription required)
  20. ^ Don Michael Randel, ed. (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 392. ISBN 9780674372993. Homilius, Gottfried August
  21. ^ Kalman Burnim; Edward A. Langhans; Philip H. Highfill (1975). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 357.
  22. ^ al-Kumillai, Muhammad Hifzur Rahman (2018). "الشيخ الفاضل فخر الدين بن فلان البردواني" [The honourable Fakhr ad-Din, son of Fulan al-Burdwani]. كتاب البدور المضية في تراجم الحنفية (in Arabic). Cairo, Egypt: Dar al-Salih.

Further reading Edit

  • John Blair; J. Willoughby Rosse (1856). "1785". Blair's Chronological Tables. London: H.G. Bohn. hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6349vh5n – via Hathi Trust.

October 18, 2023
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calendar1706 1707Bengali calendar1192Berber calendar2735British Regnal year25 Geo 3 26 Geo 3Buddhist calendar2329Burmese calendar1147Byzantine calendar7293 7294Chinese calendar甲辰年 Wood Dragon 4481 or 4421 to 乙巳年 Wood Snake 4482 or 4422Coptic calendar1501 1502Discordian calendar2951Ethiopian calendar1777 1778Hebrew calendar5545 5546Hindu calendars Vikram Samvat1841 1842 Shaka Samvat1706 1707 Kali Yuga4885 4886Holocene calendar11785Igbo calendar785 786Iranian calendar1163 1164Islamic calendar1199 1200Japanese calendarTenmei 5 天明５年 Javanese calendar1711 1712Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 daysKorean calendar4118Minguo calendar127 before ROC民前127年Nanakshahi calendar317Thai solar calendar2327 2328Tibetan calendar阳木龙年 male Wood Dragon 1911 or 1530 or 758 to 阴木蛇年 female Wood Snake 1912 or 1531 or 759Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1785 January 7 Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries travel from Dover to Calais in a gas balloon Contents 1 Events 1 1 January March 1 2 April June 1 3 July September 1 4 October December 1 5 Date unknown 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References 5 Further readingEvents EditJanuary March Edit January 1 The Burmese Konbaung Dynasty annexes the Mrauk U Kingdom of Arakan 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 11 Richard Henry Lee is elected as President of the U S Congress of the Confederation 1 January 20 Battle of Rạch Gầm Xoai Mut Invading Siamese forces attempting to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Sơn January 27 The University of Georgia in the United States is chartered by the Georgia General Assembly meeting in Savannah The first students are admitted in Athens Georgia in 1801 February 9 Sir Warren Hastings who has been governing India on behalf of King George III as the Governor General of the Presidency of Fort William later British India resigns Sir John Macpherson administers British India until General Charles Cornwallis arrives 19 months later 2 February 27 The Confederation Congress votes an 80 000 expense to establish diplomatic relations with Morocco 3 March 7 Scottish geologist James Hutton first presents his landmark work Theory of the Earth or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition Dissolution and Restoration of Land upon the Globe to the Royal Society of Edinburgh 4 General Henry Knox is appointed as the Confederation Congress s Secretary of War with added duties as the Secretary of Navy both functions now of the U S Department of Defense 1 March 10 American engineer James Rumsey sends a letter to George Washington informing of his plans to create a successful steamboat 5 Thomas Jefferson is appointed the new U S Minister to France and Benjamin Franklin s request for permission to return home is accepted 1 April June Edit April 19 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts cedes all of its claims to territory west of New York State to the United States Confederation Congress The area will become the southern portions of Michigan and Wisconsin 6 1 April 21 The Empress Catherine the Great of the Russian Empire issues the Charter to the Towns providing for a coherent unified system of administration for new governments organized in Russia April 26 John Adams is appointed as the U S ambassador to the United Kingdom and Thomas Jefferson as ambassador to France 7 April 28 Astronomer William Herschel begins his second series of surveys of the stars published in 1789 8 May 10 A hot air balloon crashes in Tullamore Ireland causing a fire that burns down about 100 houses making it the world s first aviation disaster by 36 days 9 May 20 The Northwest Ordinance of 1785 setting the rules for dividing the U S Northwest Territory later Ohio Indiana Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan into townships of 36 square miles apiece is passed by the Confederation Congress Walter G Robillard and Lane J Bouman Clark on Surveying and Boundaries LexisNexis 1997 The survey system will later be applied to the continent west of the Mississippi River 1 June 3 The Continental Navy is disbanded June 15 After several attempts Jean Francois Pilatre 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 making it the first fatal aviation disaster July September Edit July 2 Don Diego de Gardoqui arrives in New York City as Spain s first minister to the United States 1 July 6 The dollar and a decimal currency system is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States by the Congress of the Confederation 10 July 16 The Piper Heidsieck Champagne house is founded by Florens Louis Heidsieck in Reims France August 1 The fleet of French explorer Jean Francois de Galaup comte de Laperouse leaves Paris for the circumnavigation of the globe August 15 Cardinal de Rohan is arrested in Paris the Necklace Affair comes into the open September 10 The United States and the Kingdom of Prussia sign a Treaty of Amity and Commerce 11 September 13 The Bank of North America central bank for the Confederation Congress government loses its charter 12 Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia after seven years as the U S Ambassador to France and prepares to take office as the new Governor of Pennsylvania 13 October December Edit October 5 Vincenzo Lunardi of Italy becomes the first person to pilot a balloon over Scotland 14 October 13 The first newspaper in British India the English language Madras Courier is published It continues publication as a weekly until 1794 15 France mints new Louis d or coins with the image of King Louis XVI on the obverse and one sixth less gold than the coins with King Louis XV s image 16 October 17 The Commonwealth of Virginia stops the importation of new African slaves by declaring that No persons shall henceforth be slaves within this commonwealth except such as were so on the seventeenth day of October 1785 and the descendants of the females of them 17 October 18 Benjamin Franklin takes office as the new President of the Supreme Council of Pennsylvania at the time the equivalent of a republic as one of the 13 independent governments of the United States of America under the Articles of Confederation 13 November 23 John Hancock of Massachusetts the former President of the Continental Congress is selected as the new President of the Congress of the Confederation but is unable to take office because of illness 1 November 28 The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation December 11 An edict is issued limiting Masonic lodges throughout the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Joseph II With the exception of Vienna Budapest and Prague no Empire province may have more than one lodge 18 Date unknown Edit The University of New Brunswick is founded in Fredericton New Brunswick Coal gas is first used for illumination Louis XVI of France signs a law that a handkerchief must be square The British government establishes a permanent land force in the Eastern Caribbean based in Barbados Belfast Academy later Belfast Royal Academy is founded by Rev 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 Cabinet des Modes the first fashion magazine is published in France Mozart s Haydn String Quartets are published as is his collaboration with Salieri and Cornetti Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia Charles Adams John Adams son and John Quincy Adams s brother enters Harvard in August at age 15 A few months later he starts to drink often and would get into trouble and was almost expelled from Harvard when he was caught running naked through the Campus while drunk with other boys Births Edit nbsp Jacob Grimm nbsp John James Audubon nbsp Oliver Hazard PerryJanuary 4 Jacob Grimm German philologist folklorist and writer d 1863 Friedrich Wilhelm Duke of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glucksburg d 1831 January 15 William Prout English chemist physician and natural theologian d 1850 January 20 Theodor Grotthuss German Lithuanian chemist d 1822 February 8 Martin Miguel de Guemes Argentine military leader d 1821 February 10 Claude Louis Navier French engineer physicist d 1836 February 26 Anna Sundstrom Swedish chemist d 1871 March 11 John McLean American politician Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States d 1861 Eleonore Prochaska German heroine soldier d 1805 March 17 Ellen Hutchins Irish botanist d 1815 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 illustrator d 1851 April 29 Karl Drais German inventor creator of a precursor to the bicycle d 1851 May 18 John Wilson Scottish writer d 1854 May 20 Marcellin Champagnat French Catholic saint d 1840 May 22 John Hindmarsh English naval officer first Governor of South Australia d 1860 July 6 William Jackson Hooker English botanist d 1865 July 20 Mahmud II Ottoman sultan d 1839 August 15 Thomas de Quincey English writer d 1859 August 23 Oliver Hazard Perry American naval officer d 1819 August 27 Agustin Gamarra Peruvian general and politician 10th and 14th President of Peru d 1841 September 27 David Walker African American abolitionist d 1830 October 15 Jose Miguel Carrera Chilean general founding father d 1821 October 17 Gunatitanand Swami born Mulji Sharma Indian paramahamsa of the Hindu Swaminarayan Sampraday sect d 1867 October 18 Thomas Love Peacock English satirist d 1866 October 20 George Ormerod English historian and antiquarian d 1873 November 11 Diponegoro Javanese Prince d 1855 November 18 David Wilkie Scottish painter d 1841 November 21 William Beaumont American physician and surgeon d 1853 November 28 Victor de Broglie Prime Minister of France d 1870 December 17 Dorothea Lieven Latvian diplomat politically active princess d 1857 December 23 Christian Gobrecht American engraver designer of the United States Seated Liberty coinage d 1844 December 26 Etienne Constantin de Gerlache 1st Prime Minister of Belgium d 1871 Deaths Edit nbsp Baldassare GaluppiJanuary 3 Baldassare Galuppi Italian composer b 1706 19 January 6 Haym Salomon Polish Jewish American financier of the American Revolution b 1740 January 19 Jonathan Toup English classical scholar critic b 1713 January 23 Matthew Stewart Scottish mathematician b 1717 February 24 Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 7th Baronet b 1722 February 26 Barbara Erni Liechtenstein confidence trickster b 1743 March 14 Giovanni Battista Locatelli Italian opera director b 1713 April 14 William Whitehead English writer b 1715 April 26 Johan Samuel Augustin German Danish astronomical writer civil servant b 1715 May 8 Etienne Francois duc de Choiseul French statesman b 1719 Pietro Longhi Venetian painter b 1701 June 2 Jean Paul de Gua de Malves French mathematician b 1713 Gottfried August Homilius German composer cantor and organist b 1714 20 June 30 James Oglethorpe English general founder of the state of Georgia b 1696 July 5 Anne Poulett British politician b 1711 July 6 Frederick August I Duke of Oldenburg b 1711 July 9 William Strahan British politician b 1715 July 12 Louis Rene de Caradeuc de La Chalotais French jurist on the so called Brittany affair b 1701 July 13 Stephen Hopkins Founding Father of the United States b 1707 July 17 Margaret Bentinck Duchess of Portland British duchess b 1715 August 17 Jonathan Trumbull Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut b 1710 August 26 George Germain 1st Viscount Sackville British soldier politician b 1716 August 28 Jean Baptiste Pigalle French sculptor b 1714 August 31 Pietro Chiari Italian playwright b 1712 September 19 Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain Queen consort of Sardinia b 1729 September 30 Johann Jakob Moser German jurist b 1701 October 4 David Brearley delegate to the U S Constitutional Convention b 1703 Alexander Runciman Scottish painter b 1736 November 13 Joaquin Ibarra Spanish printer b 1725 November 15 Cesar Gabriel de Choiseul French officer b 1712 November 18 Louis Philippe I Duke of Orleans French soldier writer b 1725 November 19 Bernard de Bury French composer b 1720 November 20 James Wright Governor of Georgia b 1716 November 25 Richard Glover English poet b 1712 nbsp Kitty CliveDecember 6 Kitty Clive English actress playwright b 1711 21 December 29 Johan Herman Wessel Norwegian author b 1742 date unknown Fakhr ad Din al Burdwani Bengali Islamic scholar 22 Faustina Pignatelli Italian mathematician b 1705 References Edit a b c d e f g Harper s Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A D to 1909 ed by Benson John Lossing and Woodrow Wilson Harper amp Brothers 1910 p167 G S Chhabra Advance Study in the History of Modern India Volume 1 1707 1803 Lotus Press 2005 p282 The Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States of America From the Signing of the Definitive Treaty of Peace September 10 1783 to the Adoption of the Constitution March 4 1789 Volume II Blair amp Rives 1837 p365 Jill Schneiderman The Earth Around Us Maintaining A Livable Planet Henry Holt and Company 2000 p24 Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents Part 1 U S Government Printing Office 1850 p535 The United States Its Beginnings Progress and Modern Development Volume 3 ed by Edwin Wiley and Irving E Rines American Educational Alliance 1912 p384 Robert V Remini John Quincy Adams 6th President 1825 1829 Times Books 2014 p17 Stephen James O Meara Deep Sky Companions The Caldwell Objects Cambridge University Press 2016 p534 Byrne Michael January 9 2007 The Tullamore Balloon Fire First Air Disaster in History Tullamore History Offaly Historical amp Archaeological Society Archived from the original on March 26 2012 Retrieved 2012 08 21 David C Harper ed 2011 North American Coins and Prices Krause Publications 2010 p9 The Role of Political Revolution in the Theory of International Law by Theodor Schweisfurth in The Structure and Process of International Law Essays in Legal Philosophy Doctrine and Theory ed by R St J Macdonald and Douglas M Johnston Martinus Nijhoff 1986 p913 Lawrence Lewis A History of the Bank of North America the First Bank Chartered in the United States J B Lippincott amp Company 1882 p54 a b Paul Zall Benjamin Franklin s Humor University Press of Kentucky 2005 p153 On Air Balloons Mechanics Magazine June 17 1826 p102 Henry Davison Love ed Indian Records Series Vestiges of Old Madras 1640 1800 Mittal Publications p440 Jean Baptise Say A Treatise on Political Economy Ludwig von Mises Institute 2008 p254 W E B Du Bois The Suppression of the African Slave Trade Wilberforce University 1896 reprinted by Oxford University Press 2014 p xxv Jasper Ridley The Freemasons A History of the World s Most Powerful Secret Society Skyhorse Publishing 2011 Arnold Denis Galuppi s Religious Music The Musical Times 1 January 1985 pp 45 47 and 49 50 subscription required Don Michael Randel ed 1996 The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music Cambridge Harvard University Press p 392 ISBN 9780674372993 Homilius Gottfried August Kalman Burnim Edward A Langhans Philip H Highfill 1975 A Biographical Dictionary of Actors Actresses Musicians Dancers Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London 1660 1800 Southern Illinois University Press p 357 al Kumillai Muhammad Hifzur Rahman 2018 الشيخ الفاضل فخر الدين بن فلان البردواني The honourable Fakhr ad Din son of Fulan al Burdwani كتاب البدور المضية في تراجم الحنفية in Arabic Cairo Egypt Dar al Salih Further reading EditJohn Blair J Willoughby Rosse 1856 1785 Blair s Chronological Tables London H G Bohn hdl 2027 loc ark 13960 t6349vh5n via Hathi Trust Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1785 amp oldid 1176697712, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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