* 1867 – Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian ( b. 1785 )

* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )

* 1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer ( d. 1819 )

* 1785 – William Whitehead, English writer ( b. 1715 )

* 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer ( d. 1858 )

* Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776 – 1785 US State Department

Carlo-Maria ( Ajaccio 1746 – Montpellier 1785 ) married Maria Letizia Ramolino ( Ajaccio 1750 – Rome 1836 ) in 1764.

The current resistance to Russian rule has its roots in the late 18th century ( 1785 – 1791 ), a period when Russia expanded into territories formerly under the dominion of Turkey and Persia ( see also the Russo-Turkish Wars and Russo-Persian War ( 1804 – 1813 )), under Mansur Ushurma — a Chechen Naqshbandi ( Sufi ) Sheikh — with wavering support from other North Caucasian tribes.

In 1832, Lyell married Mary Horner of Bonn, daughter of Leonard Horner ( 1785 – 1864 ), also associated with the Geological Society of London.

* 1785 – Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman ( d. 1857 )

* 1696 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia ( d. 1785 )

* 1714 – Gottfried August Homilius, German composer ( d. 1785 )

* 1756 – Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Czech composer ( d. 1785 )

In Hesse-Kassel, the Landgrave Frederick II, ruled 1760 – 1785 as an enlightened despot, and raised money by renting soldiers ( called " Hessians ") to Great Britain to help fight the American Revolutionary War.

The Brothers Grimm ( 1785 – 1863 & 1786 – 1859 ) not only wrote the popular Grimm's Fairy Tales, but were among the founding fathers of German philology and German studies.

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* Arndt, Karl J. R. George Rapp's Harmony Society, 1785 – 1847.

* 1714 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor ( d. 1785 )

* 1716 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician ( d. 1785 )

* 1841 – David Wilkie, Scottish artist ( b. 1785 )

* 1785 – The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.

It is the first mineral to be named after someone, and was first described in 1789 for an occurrence in Haslach, Harzburg and Oberstein, Germany, and named for Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn ( 1733 – 1785 ), commander of the military forces of the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope from 1768 to 1780.

In 1785, Kara Mahmud's forces attacked Montenegrin territory, and Austria offered to recognize him as the ruler of all Albania if he would ally himself with Vienna against the Sublime Porte.

During his trip to Russia ( 1785 ), Montenegro was attacked by Turkish forces.

In 1785 Sheikh Mansur and his fighters destroyed Russian forces in the Battle of Sunja.

Most of the forces were Daghestani and Chechen, numbering more than 12, 000 by December 1785.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb developed the law of electrostatic attraction in 1785 as an outgrowth of his attempt to investigate the law of electrical repulsions as stated by Joseph Priestley in England.

The first attempt to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun in it was carried out by William Herschel in 1785 by carefully counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky.

* 1785 – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight ( 1783 ), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.

* 1785 — William Herschel carried the first attempt to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun in it by carefully counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky.

He made an unsuccessful attempt himself in 1785, by the Aiguille du Goûter route.

This early attempt at a variorum edition was revised and reprinted in 1778, and further edited in 1785 by Reed ; but in 1793 Steevens, who had asserted that he was now a dowager-editor, was persuaded by his jealousy of Edmond Malone to resume the task.

( A subsequent Channel crossing attempt in the opposite direction by Pilâtre de Rozier on 15 June 1785 ended unsuccessfully in a fatal crash.

During the decade 1785 – 1795 British merchants, encouraged by Sir Joseph Banks and supported by their government, made a sustained attempt to develop this trade despite Spain's claims and navigation rights.

In 1785 he lost some face for his involvement in the Dogrumowa affair, in which the king was falsely accused for an instigation of a poisoning attempt.

King's phrasing from the 1785 attempt was incorporated in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 when it was enacted on 13 July 1787.

In 1785 William left the Hague and removed his court to Guelders, a province remote from the political centre.

In 1785, the village of Easthampton was formally named its own separate political entity, and twenty-four years later in 1809, it officially became a town.

People who molded the early religious and political character of America are buried here, including John Harris II, the first United States Senator from Pennsylvania, William Maclay, as well as four of the six commissioners who planned the town of Harrisburg with him in 1785.

In 1787, the most dramatic political event of the decade came to pass in the form of the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, the Governor of Bengal until 1785, on charges of corruption and extortion.

It included tours of both chambers of the Oireachtas, lectures on the history of Oireachtas, historic political speeches recited by actors and a hot air balloon – commemorating the balloon flight which took place in 1785 from Leinster Lawn.

* August 7-François Lesieur Desaulniers, farmer and political figure ( b. 1785 )

* March 11-John Heckman, political figure ( b. 1785 )

* July 22-Amable Éno, dit Deschamps, political figure ( b. 1785 )

The Ordinance of 1785 put the 1784 resolution in operation by providing a mechanism for selling and settling the land, while the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 addressed political needs.

From 1056 until 1785, it was one of Iceland's two episcopal sees, along with Hólar, making it a cultural and political center.

Johann Jakob Moser ( 18 January 1701, Stuttgart – 30 September 1785, Stuttgart ) was a German jurist, publicist and researcher, whose work earned him the title " The Father of German Constitutional Law " and whose political commitment to the principles of Liberalism caused him to lose academic positions and spend years as a political prisoner.

In the 1770s she began writing political articles for Boston newspapers, and in 1785 she married a Dartmouth graduate, the Rev.

* James Fraser ( Lower Canada politician ) ( c. 1785 – 1844 ), merchant and political figure in Lower Canada

Graham was appointed Rector of the University of Glasgow, holding the position from 1785 to 1787, in which year he instituted the Gartmore Gold Medal ( awarded biennially ) for the best discourse by a student on political liberty.

He rose in political office, serving as sheriff of Tryon County ( 1775 ), justice of the peace of Rutherford County ( 1780 – 1800 ), and comptroller of Rutherford County from ( July 1782-January 1785 ).

A Habsburg fortress was built here, and in 1785 converted to a prison which, during the Communist regime, was used for political detainees ( see Gherla prison ).

Count Alfred Wojciech Potocki Piława ( 1785 – 1862 ) was a Polish nobleman ( szlachcic ), landowner, political and economic activist.

By 1824, sovereigns in his line had conquered nearly all of Madagascar, particularly through the military strategy and ambitious political policies of Andrianampoinimerina ( circa 1785 – 1810 ) and his son Radama I ( 1792 – 1828 ).

Longford Hall is a large country house in Longford, a village in Shropshire, England near the town of Newport, built in 1785 for Ralph Leeke who was political agent of the British East India Company, designed by Joseph Bonomi, who had worked with Robert and James Adam.

The London Magazine was founded in 1732 in political opposition to the Tory-based Gentleman's Magazine and ran for 53 years until its closure in 1785.