* 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.

Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to John Jay that

* 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.

John James Audubon ( Jean-Jacques Audubon ) ( April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851 ) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.

* 1785 – John Wilson, Scottish writer ( d. 1854 )

* 1785 – John McLean, U. S. Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1861 )

Cowper is best known, not just for his contribution to the Olney Hymns, but as a poet, letter-writer, and translator: his works include The Diverting History of John Gilpin ( 1782 ), The Task ( 1785 ) and his translation of Homer, published in 1791.

Thomas Bowdler was born at Box, near Bath, Somerset, the youngest son of the six children of Thomas Bowdler ( c. 1719 – 1785 ), a banker of substantial fortune, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Cotton ( d. 1797 ), the daughter of Sir John Cotton of Conington, Huntingdonshire.

UNB has two main campuses: the original campus, founded in 1785 in Fredericton, and a smaller campus which opened in Saint John in 1964.

The petition requesting the establishment of the school, titled " The Founders ' Petition of 1785 ," was addressed to Governor Thomas Carleton and was signed by seven Loyalist men: William Paine, William Wanton, George Sproule, Zephaniah Kingsley, John Coffin, Ward Chipman, and Adino Paddock.

For example, the charter of the city of Saint John, New Brunswick was amended in 1785 specifically to exclude blacks from practicing a trade, selling goods, fishing in the harbour, or becoming freemen ; these provisions stood until 1870.

* January 27 – John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator ( b. 1785 )

Hydrogen balloons were used for all subsequent major ballooning accomplishments, such as the crossing of the English Channel on 7 January 1785 by the Franco-American aviators Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr. John Jeffries.

* John Ayrton Paris ( 1785 – 1856 ), physician

The village was laid out and chartered in 1785 upon petition of Richard Winn, John Winn and John Vanderhorst.

Belair House ( which has now been renamed Beauberry House ) on the boundary between West Dulwich and Dulwich itself, is opposite West Dulwich railway station and was designed in 1785 for John Files.

* 1785 John Calah

In 1785 a prison was built using the ideas of John Howard, the prison reformer.

* Saint John ; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1785 by King George III

* John Murray ( Naperville founder ) ( 1785 – 1868 ), one of the original settlers of Naperville, Illinois in 1831

The town had enough settlers by 1785 to have it incorporated as a town, renamed by the Massachusetts General Court after John Rowe, a prominent Boston merchant.

* John Smith ( 1785 ?- 1922 ), centenarian

* John James Audubon-( April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851 ) French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter.

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