Notable Historical Events - 1785
1785 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
"Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes 1st issue |
Jan 7 |
1st balloon flight across English Channel (Jean Pierre Blanchard & John Jeffries) |
Jan 11 |
Continental Congress convenes in NYC |
Jan 13 |
John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times |
Jan 14 |
Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" (opus 10) |
Jan 15 |
Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres |
Jan 19 |
First manned balloon flight in Ireland |
Jan 20 |
Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Is), no takers |
Jan 27 |
1st US state university chartered, Athens Georgia |
Jan 29 |
In a surprising announcement, John Hancock resigns as Governor of Massachusetts, allegedly due to his failing health |
Mar 1 |
Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized |
Mar 7 |
James Hutton, geologist, presents his full theory of uniformitarianism at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
Apr 21 |
Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges |
May 1 |
Kamehameha, the king of Hawaiʻi defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi |
May 9 |
British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle |
May 23 |
Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals |
Jun 15 |
2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident |
Jul 4 |
James Hutton, geologist, publicly reads an abstract of his theory of uniformitarianism for the first time at the meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
Jul 6 |
Congress unanimously resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage |
Jul 12 |
1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands |
Aug 1 |
Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet |
Aug 15 |
French cardinal De Rohan arrested |
Sep 1 |
Mozart publishes 6th string quartet opus 10 in Vienna |
Sep 10 |
Prussia signs trade agreement with US |
Sep 28 |
Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51) |
Sep 29 |
Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Kraków Poland |
Nov 10 |
Netherlands & France sign treaty |
Nov 17 |
Church of England organizes in New England |
Nov 28 |
The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the Confederation Congress of the United States of America and the Cherokee people |
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