1785
1785 was a common year.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1750s 1760s 1770s – 1780s – 1790s 1800s 1810s |
| Years: | 1782 1783 1784 – 1785 – 1786 1787 1788 |
Events
- January 1 – The Montgolfier brothers fly across the English Channel.
Births
- December 26 – Laurent Clerc, co-founder of the first American school for the deaf
Deaths
- January 3 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
- January 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
- January 23 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
- April 14 – William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
- May 8 – Etienne Francois, Duke of Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
- June 2 – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
- June 30 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
- August 17 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
- August 26 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
- August 28 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
- October 4 – David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. 1703)
- November 19 – Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
- November 25 – Richard Glover, English poet (b. 1712)
- December 29 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian writer (b. 1742)