1785

Years:
1782 1783 1784 - 1785 - 1786 1787 1788

Decades:
1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s

Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

List of state leaders in 1785
List of religious leaders in 1785

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


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