In 1785, the Russian Academy of Sciences put a marble bust of Leonhard Euler on a pedestal next to the Director's seat and, in 1837, placed a headstone on Euler's grave.

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.

He soon became an honorary member of many foreign academies and philosophic societies notably the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( 1785 ), in Germany, Imperial Russia, and the United States.

A number of important philosophical societies were formed, which were centers of the city's intellectual life: the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture ( 1785 ), the Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts ( 1787 ), the Academy of Natural Sciences ( 1812 ), and the Franklin Institute ( 1824 ).

The original terracotta and plaster models were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, in 1785.

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.

Liberty Hall Academy became a college when it granted its first bachelor of arts degree in 1785, making it the ninth oldest institution of higher education in the country.

The initial volume of Academy Memoirs appeared in 1785, and the Proceedings followed in 1846.

Wyatt was elected to the Royal Academy in 1785, and took an active part in the politics of the Academy.

As a result, the Schenectady Academy was established in 1785 and thus originated the first organized school system in Schenectady.

The Academy was established in 1785 and granted royal charter in 1786.

In 1785 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A pupil of Richard Cosway, Kirk exhibited the first of 25 works at the Royal Academy in 1785, and created many famous engravings based either upon his own work or works by, amongst others, Angelica Kauffmann, Richard Westall or Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Westall was apprenticed to a heraldic silver engraver in 1779, where he was encouraged to become a painter by John Alefounder ; he then began studying at the Royal Academy School of Arts from 10 December 1785.

The Academy was founded in 1785 by Rev.

The three significant dates mark the foundation of the school in 1785, the transfer to the present site in 1880 and the approval by Queen Victoria of the designation Belfast Royal Academy in 1888.

* March 2-Jean Alaux, French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome ( b. 1785 )

After his Tables of the Products and Powers of Numbers, 1781, and his Mathematical Tables of 1785 ( second edition 1794 ), he issued, for the use of the Royal Military Academy, in 1787 Elements of Conic Sections, and in 1798 his Course of Mathematics.

* Colonel Sylvanus Thayer ( 1785 – 1872 ), " Father of the United States Military Academy "

Peabody traces its history to 1785, when Davidson Academy was chartered by the state of North Carolina, of which Tennessee was then a part.

Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer ( June 9, 1785 – September 7, 1872 ) also known as " the Father of West Point " was an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point and an early advocate of engineering education in the United States.

Born near Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1785, Bethune attended private schools and the Lumberton Male Academy.

Allan was able to return to Edinburgh in 1814, and, in 1815, his picture of " Circassian Captives " attracted notice at the Royal Academy, though it did not find a purchaser ; however Sir Walter Scott, John Wilson ( 1785 – 1854 ) and his brother James ( 1795 – 1856 ), John Lockhart, and others, raised a lottery for it, with 100 subscribers at £ 10 10s.

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.

The automatic flour mill built by Oliver Evans in 1785 was called the beginning of modern bulk material handling by Roe ( 1916 ).

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 ).

However, even with Mozart and Salieri being rivals for certain jobs, there is very little evidence that the relationship between the two composers was at all acrimonious beyond this, especially after 1785 or so when Mozart had become established in Vienna.

It was written in 1785 and first published the following year in the poet's own literary journal, Thalia.

The first outside the English Midlands was established in Leeds in 1785.

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.

Thomas Bell patented the technique of printing by copper rollers in 1783, and the first machine was set up by Livesey, Hargreaves & Co near Preston in 1785.

The use of D. purpurea extract containing cardiac glycosides for the treatment of heart conditions was first described in the English-speaking medical literature by William Withering, in 1785, which is considered the beginning of modern therapeutics. It is used to increase cardiac contractility ( it is a positive inotrope ) and as an antiarrhythmic agent to control the heart rate, particularly in the irregular ( and often fast ) atrial fibrillation.

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 understanding of friction was further developed by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( 1785 ).

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.

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.

Social reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote the first known argument for homosexual law reform in England around 1785, at a time when the legal penalty for buggery was death by hanging.

The Harmony Society was a Christian theosophy and pietist society founded in Iptingen, Germany, in 1785.

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

From 1785, perhaps because the improved version of potting and stamping was about to come out of patent, a great expansion in the output of the British iron industry began.

After some 25 years of work, his Theory of the Earth ; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe was read to meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in two parts, the first by his friend Joseph Black on 7 March 1785, and the second by himself on 4 April 1785.