He also wrote the following novels: The Devil ( 1785 ); Hannah Hewitt ( 1792 ); The Younger Brother ( 1793 ).

* Lady Hannah Althea Grey ( 1785 – 1832 ) married George Edmund Byron Bettesworth

Josephine Elizabeth Grey was born at Milfield House, Milfield, Northumberland and was the seventh child of John Grey ( 1785 – 1868, b. Milfield, Northumberland ) and Hannah Eliza Annett ( b. 1792, Alnwick, d. 15 May 1860 ).

In 1785, William and Mary Porden had twin daughters, Mary Hannah ( who died at the age of two years ) and Sarah Henrietta.

Hannah Beswick ( – 1785 ), from Birchin Bower in Hollinwood, had a pathological fear of premature burial.

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.

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.

In 1785 Lexington County was established, changing the name from Saxe Gotha to Lexington in honor of the Massachusetts Revolutionary War battle.

As a concession in order to obtain ratification, these states ceded their claims on the territory to the federal government: New York in 1780, Virginia in 1784, Massachusetts and Connecticut in 1785.

*** Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1784 – 1785

He was continuously elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives for each year from 1779 through 1785.

Ward was the Speaker of the Massachusetts House in 1785.

In another strain of change, the first church in the United States with an openly Unitarian theology, the belief in the single personality of God, was established in Boston, Massachusetts in 1785 ( in a former Anglican parish.

King was first elected to the Massachusetts state assembly in 1783, and returned there each year until 1785.

Deborah was married in Stoughton, Massachusetts to Benjamin Gannett ( 1757 – 1837 ), a farmer from Sharon, Massachusetts, on April 7, 1785.

In 1785, apparently sensitive to rising unrest in western Massachusetts over the poor economy, Hancock offered to resign, expecting to be asked to stay in office.

After serving in the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War, Varnum helped to destroy the Shays insurrection before he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 1780 – 1785 ) and then the Massachusetts State Senate ( 1786 – 1795 ).

He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1785, and of the Governor ’ s council in 1786.

* Nathan Dane ( 1752 – 1835 ), American lawyer and statesman representing Massachusetts in the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1787

After a brief term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1784, the governor appointed Osgood a judge in 1785 but he soon resigned when the National Congress made him a commissioner of the Treasury later that year.

He participated in the first general Universalist Convention at Oxford, Massachusetts, September, 1785.

He bore the same name as his grandfather ( 1763 – 1819 ), pastor at Longmeadow, Massachusetts, from 1785 to 1819, and his father ( 1787 – 1873 ), pastor at Braintree, Massachusetts, from 1811 to 1873 ( except the years 1831-1836 ), both prominent Congregational ministers, who were descendants of Richard Mather.

In 1785 Dana was appointed to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and served there until 1806, as the Chief Justice after 1791.

Nathan Dane ( December 29, 1752 – February 15, 1835 ) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress from 1785 through 1788.

Dalton served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1782 to 1785, and served as speaker in 1784.

He served as a Massachusetts state senator from 1785 to 1788, and was appointed to the United States Senate in 1788.

* Hall Tavern Visitor Center-Originally built c. 1785 in Charlemont, Massachusetts, with a ballroom wing that was added around 1815, the building was moved to Deerfield and converted to a visitor center.