* 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.

File: Grimm. jpg | Brothers Grimm ( 1785 – 1863 & 1786 – 1859 )

* 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.

Initially modeled on the Anglican ideals of older, European institutions, the University of New Brunswick was founded in 1785 as the Academy of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The book was published in 1785 under the title of The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, and was made a part of the examinations at the University of Cambridge the next year.

* The University of Wisconsin – Madison Digital Collections Center has a digital edition of the Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert ( 1785 – 1788 ).

On 13 August 1780, he was set apart to the ministry, but he still continued his studies at the academy ; and in 1781, in accordance with the provisions of an exhibition which he held, he entered King's College, University of Aberdeen, where he took the degree of master of arts in March 1785.

In 1785 he was invited to Padua University, but to retain his services his sovereign doubled his salary and allowed him leave of absence for a visit to Turkey where he remained nearly a year and made many observations, among which may be noted those of a copper mine in Chalki and of an iron mine at Principi.

His father, Matthew Stewart ( 1715 – 1785 ), was professor of mathematics in the University of Edinburgh ( 1747 – 1772 ).

He graduated from Princeton University in 1781, was admitted to the bar in 1785, and began to practice law in New York City, rapidly rising to distinction.

In 1785 he entered the University of Halle with the view of studying theology ; but soon became more interested in history, bibliography and geography.

Prout was born in Horton, Gloucestershire in 1785 and educated at 17 years of age by a clergyman, followed by the Redland Academy at Bristol and Edinburgh University, where he graduated in 1811.

*" Letter, Benjamin Franklin to Baron Francis Maseres, June 26, 1785 ", ( Opinion of Benjamin Franklin on persons who called themselves " Loyalists ", whom he judged better called " Royalists "), Franklin Papers, Yale University

* Duncan Macmillan, " Runciman, Alexander ( 1736 – 1785 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 25 June 2007

After having been successively Repetent in the University of Göttingen and teacher in the public schools of Dortmund ( Westphalia ) and Altdorf ( Bavaria ), he was appointed second professor of theology at the University of Altdorf in 1785, then promoted to a chair in Jena in 1804, where he succeeded Griesbach in 1812 and remained until his death.

Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785 – 1810, University of Georgia Press, 2008.

His efforts led to the chartering of the University of Georgia in 1785.

The University of Georgia was incorporated on January 27, 1785, by the Georgia General Assembly, which had given its trustees, the Senatus Academicus of the University of Georgia, 40, 000 acres ( 160 km² ) for the purposes of founding a “ college or seminary of learning .” The Senatus Academicus was composed of the Board of Visitors and the Board of Trustees with the Georgia Senate presiding over those two boards.

With roots dating back to 1785, Queen Mary was formed by the merger of four historic colleges, and since joining the University of London in 1915 has grown to become one of its largest colleges.

Having translated the essay into English so that it could gain a wider audience, Clarkson published it in pamphlet-form in 1786 as " An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species, particularly the African, translated from a Latin Dissertation ", which was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge, for the year 1785.

On April 13 1785, after four years studying, he became a doctor of theology and master of philosophy at the University of Córdoba.

He was a founding trustee of the University of Georgia ( UGA ) in Athens in 1785.

His father then sent him to the Leiden University in the Netherlands for a few months, and he took his MD there on 26 February 1785.

Physick graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1785, then began the study of medicine under Dr. Adam Kuhn, and continued it in London under Dr. John Hunter, becoming, on January 1, 1790, house surgeon of St. George's hospital.

Robert Blair was the first Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh ( 1785 ).