Today in History for Year 1785

Months in Year 1785: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 26 of 26

Jan 1st - "Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes 1st issue
Jan 7th - 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)
Jan 11th - Continental Congress convenes in NYC
Jan 13th - John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times
Jan 14th - Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" (opus 10)
Jan 15th - Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres
Jan 19th - First manned balloon flight in Ireland
Jan 20th - Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Is), no takers
Jan 27th - 1st US state university chartered, Athens Georgia
Mar 1st - Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized
Apr 21st - Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges
May 1st - Kamehameha, the king of Hawaiʻi defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
May 9th - British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle
May 23rd - Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
Jun 15th - 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident
Jul 6th - Congress unanimously resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage
Jul 12th - 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
Aug 1st - Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
Aug 15th - French cardinal De Rohan arrested
United States founding father Benjamin Franklin Sep 1st - Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna
Sep 10th - Prussia signs trade agreement with US
Sep 28th - Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
Sep 29th - Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland
Nov 10th - Netherlands & France signs treaty
Nov 17th - Church of England organizes in New England
Nov 28th - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 37 of 37

Jan 4th - Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, philologist and folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" (d. 1863)
Jan 23rd - Carl A Agardh, Sweden, botanist/bishop of Karlstad
Feb 12th - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (d. 1838)
Feb 15th - Claude Louis Marie Navier
Feb 21st - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author (Die Sterner)
Mar 6th - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer
Mar 7th - Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed)
Mar 11th - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861)
Mar 19th - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer
Mar 27th - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95)
Apr 1st - J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
Apr 4th - Bettina von Arnim, German writer and composer of the Romantic era (This Book Belongs to the King)
Apr 9th - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch physician/chemist (electric car 1835)
Apr 19th - Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer
Apr 26th - John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist
May 6th - Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller
May 9th - James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)
May 18th - John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854)
Jul 6th - William J Hooker, English botanist/director (Kew Gardens)
Jul 14th - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851)
Jul 20th - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39)/Westernizer/reformer
Aug 15th - Thomas De Quincey, England, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater)
Aug 19th - Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
Aug 20th - Oliver Hazard Perry, US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy")
Sep 25th - George Frederic Pinto, composer
Sep 28th - David Walker, Wilmington NC, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens)
Oct 15th - Jose Miguel Carrera, president of Chile (1811-14)
Oct 18th - Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)
Oct 20th - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
Oct 31st - George F Kersting, German painter
Nov 2nd - Frederic Kalkbrenner, composer
Nov 2nd - Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer
Nov 8th - Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer
Nov 18th - David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841)
Surgeon William Beaumont (Nov 21st) Nov 21st - William Beaumont, Lebanon, Connecticut, surgeon (Father of gastric physiology), (d. 1853)
Nov 23rd - Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits (1829-53)
Nov 28th - Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM (1835-36)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 38 of 38

Jan 3rd - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
Jan 6th - Haym Salomon, dies in Phila at 44, helped finance the revolution
Jan 19th - Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
Jan 23rd - Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
Feb 6th - Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83), dies at 48
Feb 19th - Johann Christoph Richter, composer, dies at 84
Feb 24th - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39
Apr 14th - William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
Apr 26th - Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40
Apr 30th - Frederick Philipse 3, land owner (Bronx, Westch & Putnam), dies at 65
May 8th - Pietro Longhi, painter, dies
May 8th - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
May 9th - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer, dies at 44
May 10th - Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer, dies at 36
May 15th - Karel Blazej Kopriva, composer, dies at 29
May 23rd - William Woollett, engraver, dies
Jun 2nd - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
Jun 5th - Gottfried August Homilius, composer, dies at 71
Jun 6th - Johann Michael Demmler, composer, dies at 36
Jun 25th - Pierre Talon, composer, dies at 63
Jun 25th - Pieter Kintsius, VOC-supercarga/chief on Macau, dies at 53
Jun 27th - Egbert de Free Temminck, Amsterdam regent, dies at 84
Jun 30th - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
Jul 13th - Stephen Hopkins, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 78
Aug 14th - John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies
Aug 17th - Jonathan Trumbull, US patriot, dies
Aug 21st - Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies
Aug 26th - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
Oct 4th - David Brearly, American statesman (b. 1703)
Oct 24th - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer, dies at 64
Oct 30th - Gustaf P Creutz, Swedish diplomat/poet (Daphne), dies at 54
Nov 18th - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
Nov 19th - Bernard de Bury, composer, dies at 65
Nov 25th - Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
Nov 28th - William Whipple, merchant/judge/signer (US Declaration of Independence), dies at 55
Dec 8th - Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer, dies at 68
Dec 29th - Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69
Dec 29th - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)