1785

Events

  • January 1 – The Montgolfier brothers fly across the English Channel.

Births

Deaths

  • January 3Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
  • January 19Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
  • January 23Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
  • April 14William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
  • May 8Etienne Francois, Duke of Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
  • June 2Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
  • June 30James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
  • August 17Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
  • August 26George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
  • August 28Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
  • October 4David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. 1703)
  • November 19Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
  • November 25Richard Glover, English poet (b. 1712)
  • December 29Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian writer (b. 1742)
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