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* 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.
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( A subsequent Channel crossing attempt in the opposite direction by Pilâtre de Rozier on 15 June 1785 ended unsuccessfully in a fatal crash.
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Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).
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He was alarmed by the Spanish diplomat Don Diego de Gardoqui, who in 1785 tried to convince Congress to allow Spain to close the Mississippi River to American traffic for 30 years.
File: Coulomb. jpg | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( 1736-1806 ): formulated a law in 1785 which described the electrostatic interaction between electrically charged particles ( attraction and repulsion ) and was essential to the development of the theory of electromagnetism, namesake of the unit of electric charge: the coulomb ( C )
* André Charles, marquis de La Jaille, Voyage au Sénégal pendant les années 1784 et 1785, avec des notes jusqu ’ à l ' an X par P. Labarthe, Paris, Denter, 1802.
* Paul Bouteiller, Le Chevalier de Boufflers et le Sénégal de son temps ( 1785 – 1788 ), Lettres du Monde, Paris, 1995.
They were rediscovered by Guillaume Amontons ( 1699 ) and were further developed by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( 1785 ).
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb experimentally verified this in 1785 and stated explicitly that the North and South poles cannot be separated.
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** Austrian East India Company, a series of companies going under the names of Société impériale asiatique de Trieste et Anvers, or Société asiatique de Trieste, based in Ostend and Trieste, founded 1775 by William Bolts and ceased 1785
On 27 March 1785, Marie Antoinette gave birth to a second son, Louis Charles, who was created the duc de Normandie.
He was unexpectedly challenged by his formerly disgraced cousin, the duc de Chartres, who had inherited the title of duc d ' Orléans at the death of his father in 1785.
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