The son of Jean-Marc Vacheron, Abraham, took over the family business in 1785.

It is generally thought that cricket was introduced to Canada by British soldiers after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759, although the earliest confirmed reference to cricket is of matches played on Saint Helen's Island, Quebec in 1785 on what later became the site of Expo 67.

* May 22 – Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist ( b. 1785 )

Mordecai Manuel Noah ( July 14, 1785, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 22, 1851, New York ) was an American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian.

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After the war he served as the 35th Governor of South Carolina ( 1785 – 87, 1792 – 94 ).

It was 1785 before the region was settled again by new migrants, many of whom were Yankees from New England and veterans of the war.

The war, however, delayed further settlement until 1785, when many others began arriving.

Burma and Siam went to war again in 1785 – 1786, 1787, 1792, 1803 – 1808, 1809 – 1812 and 1849 – 1855 but all resulted in a stalemate.

The Chechens moved to retake the lowlands: in 1785, a holy war was declared on the Russians by Sheikh Mansur, who was captured in 1791 and died a few years later.

With the war over and the Federal government in need of all available capital, the final vessel of the Continental Navy was auctioned off in 1785 to a private bidder.

By the end of the war he had become a resident of New Jersey, serving as a member of the New Jersey Legislative Council ( now the New Jersey Senate ) from 1781 to 1783 and delegate from that state to the Continental Congress in 1784 and 1785.

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After the war he was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates, where he served from 1785 to 1787.

war: Kaarangay: Mga natawo han 1785

war: Kaarangay: Mga namatay han 1785

The Northwest Indian War ( 1785 – 1795 ), also known as Little Turtle's War and by other names, was a war between the United States and a confederation of numerous American Indian tribes for control of the Northwest Territory.

After the war, Cabell was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1785 to 1792 and a member of the constitutional convention in 1788.

In 1785, shortly after the war, General Lafayette travelled to Kassel and met Knyphausen.

After the war, in 1785, he moved first to Hallowell ( now Augusta ), Maine with his family, and then six years later they moved to Farmington, where Belcher remained until his death.

From 1785 to 1787, Upper Creek war parties fought alongside the Cherokee in the Chickamauga Wars in present-day Tennessee.

When in 1785 he returned to Berlin, he received the appointment of secretary to the royal Generaldirectorium, his talents soon gaining him promotion to the rank of councillor for war ( Kriegsrath ).

After the war, Scott visited the western frontier in 1785 and began to make preparations for a permanent relocation.

After the war, Jackson was named as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1785, and attended the session from April to November that year.

Ogle County was formed in 1836 out of Jo Daviess and LaSalle Counties, and named in honor of Captain Joseph Ogle, a veteran of the Revolutionary War who came to Illinois in 1785.

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

They were taken from the " Ode to Joy ", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additions made by the composer.

In 1785, Russia and the eastern Georgian kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti ( which was devastated by Turkish and Persian invasions ) signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, according to which Kartl-Kakheti received protection from Russia.

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.

This proved to be false in 1785 by Antoine Lavoisier who found the correct explanation of the combustion as reaction with oxygen from the air.

First attested in English in 1785, the word camelopardalis comes from the Latin, and it is the romanisation of the Greek " καμηλοπάρδαλις " meaning " giraffe ", from " κάμηλος " ( kamēlos ), " camel " + " πάρδαλις " ( pardalis ), " leopard ", due to its having a long neck like a camel and spots like a leopard.

Until Joseph Bramah patented the beer engine in 1785, beer was served directly from the barrel and carried to the customer.

In these years he recovered the manuscript that he and Thomas Young had worked in his youth from Young's widow, who was living in Albany, and began to develop it into the work that was published in 1785 as Reason: the Only Oracle of Man.

He also served from 1783 to September 1785 and was married in 1786 to Ann Thompson, the daughter of a wealthy New York merchant, 21 years his junior.

The shape of the Milky Way as deduced from star counts by William Herschel in 1785 ; the solar system was assumed to be near the center.

As their numbers increased, Rapp ’ s group officially split with the Lutheran Church in 1785 and was banned from meeting.

* Arndt, Karl J. R. The Harmony Society from its Beginnings in Germany in 1785 to its Liquidation in the United States in 1905.

However, from 1785, imports decreased because of the new iron making technology, and Britain became an exporter of bar iron as well as manufactured wrought iron consumer goods.

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

This may have been a reference to a report from the British Ambassador in Paris, who had believed that when La Pérouse ’ s expedition set out from Brest in August 1785 it had as one of its objectives the establishment of a settlement in New Zealand to forestall the British.

In 1785, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Secretary to the Prince of Wales, leased a large area of moorland from the Duchy of Cornwall estate, hoping to convert it into good farmland.

It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings were “ once as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.

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.

* Samuel Hardy, U. S. lawyer and statesman from Virginia ( d. 1785 )

Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue ( 1785 ) derives the term from the following story:

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.

Winter, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-8253-0110-9 ( Volume 1 – 3, Reprint of the Leipzig edition from 1785 )

The Daily Universal Register began life in 1785 and was later to become known as The Times from 1788.