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.

In 1785 the northern part of Patrick Henry County was combined with part of Bedford County to form Franklin County.

The county was formed in 1785 from parts of Bedford and Henry counties.

* Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle ( 1785 – 1851 ), eldest son of the 3rd Duke

The first lots in the new town of Cootstown ( later renamed Kutztown ) were purchased in 1785 by Adam Dietrich and Henry Schweier.

* Henry Miller Shreve ( 1785 – 1851 )-pioneering steamboat captain, and steamboat designer.

In Pennsylvania, John Fitch, an acquaintance of Henry, made a model paddle steamer in 1785, and subsequently developed propulsion by floats on a chain, obtained a patent in 1786, then built a steamboat which underwent a successful trial in 1787.

* Alexander Henry ( 1785 – 1812 ), not be confused with his first cousin Alexander Henry the younger.

* Robert Henry ( born after 1785 -, wintering partner of the North West Company and director of the Commercial Bank of the Midland District at Cobourg.

His eldest son Henry Dodwell the younger ( d. 1784 ) was the author of a pamphlet entitled Christianity not founded on Argument, to which a reply was published by his brother William Dodwell ( 1709 – 1785 ), who was concurrently engaged in a controversy with Conyers Middleton on the subject of miracles.

# Henry Dwight Sedgwick, born April 18, 1784 and died March 1, 1785.

# Henry Dwight Sedgwick, born September 22, 1785, married Jane Minot ( 1795 – 1859 ) and died December 23, 1831.

Steamboat builder and river captain Henry Miller Shreve ( 1785 – 1851 ) began systematically removing the Great Raft, a task that was continued by others until the latter part of the 19th century.

Thomas Plaistowe, who died in 1715 was the first of the family to be the outright owner of The Lee and his namesake in 1785 passed ownership to his daughter Elizabeth who married an Irishman, Henry Deering.

* Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, 11th Earl of Lincoln ( 1785 – 1851 )

** Henry George Nevill, Viscount Nevill ( 1785 – 1806 )

* Henry Stanley Monck, 2nd Viscount Monck ( 1785 – 1848 ) ( created Earl of Rathdowne in 1822 )

* Henry Stanley Monck, 1st Earl of Rathdowne ( 1785 – 1848 )

* Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge ( 1785 – 1856 )

* Henry Aylmer, 4th Baron Aylmer ( d. 1785 )

* Sir Henry Aylmer, 7th Baronet ( died 1785 ) ( had succeeded as Baron Aylmer in 1766 )

* Sir Henry George Liddell, 5th Baronet ( 1749 – 1791 ) High Sheriff of Northumberland 1785

Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC ( 30 March 1785 – 24 September 1856 ) was a British field marshal and Governor-general of India.

) Salieri soon produced one of his greatest works with the text by Casti La grotta di Trofonio ( The Cave of Trofonius ) in 1785, the first opera buffa published in full score by Artaria.

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.

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.

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.

In 1832, Lyell married Mary Horner of Bonn, daughter of Leonard Horner ( 1785 – 1864 ), also associated with the Geological Society of London.

", as well as the supernatural associated with the night, " Bogies " ( ghosts ), influencing Robert Burns ' Halloween 1785.

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

Appointed governor in 1785, Knight Boufflers focuses for two years to enhance the colony, while engaged in the smuggling of gum arabic and gold with signares.

Image: Thomas Gainsborough 005. jpg | Cottage Girl with Dog and pitcher ( 1785 )

* 1785 " An account of the foxglove and some of its medical uses ; with practical remarks on the dropsy, and some other diseases " Publ Swinney, Birmingham

The term for this class of objects is a partial misnomer that originated ( 1784 or 1785 ) with astronomer William Herschel, because when viewed through his telescope, these objects appeared to be clouds ( nebulae ) that were similar in appearance to Uranus, the planet that had been discovered telescopically by Herschel.

The spirit they made evolved, and became known as bourbon in the early 19th century due to its historical association with the geographic area known as Old Bourbon ( consisting of the original Bourbon County of Virginia as created in 1785, which was a region that included much of today's Eastern Kentucky – including 34 of today's counties in Kentucky, one of which is the current Bourbon County of Kentucky ).

Marie Antoinette with her two eldest children, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte and the Dauphin Louis Joseph, in the Petit Trianon's gardens, by Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller ( 1785 ).

Thomas Jefferson explained in 1785 that there are three main limitations on the power of a court of equity: " If the legislature means to enact an injustice, however palpable, the court of Chancery is not the body with whom a correcting power is lodged.

In 1785 about 1, 500 were authorized to emigrate to Louisiana, often to be reunited with their families, or because they could not settle in France.

As early as March 1785, Lapérouse proposed that Paul Monneron, who had been chosen as the expedition's chief engineer, go to London to find out about the latest conclusions on the anti-scurvy measures recommended by Cook and the exchange items used by Cook in his dealings with the native peoples, and to buy scientific instruments of English manufacture.

In 1785, the Russian government of Catherine II commissioned a new expedition in search for the Northeast Passage, led by English officer Joseph Billings, who had previously sailed with Captain Cook, and the Russian officer Gavril Sarychev as his deputy.

Some of Murdoch's other minor inventions and experiments were: a machine developed in 1784 or 1785 in Cornwall for drilling wooden pipes, ( in 1810 this was further developed and patented for stone pipes ), a steam cannon which he attempted to use in 1803 to knock down a wall at Soho, a steam gun in the same year which fired 3 cm lead bullets, and machinery to grind and compress peat moss under great pressure to produce a material with " the appearance of the finest Jet ".

Pius VI soon named him, in February 1785, simultaneously both as a Cardinal-Priest, with his titular church being the Basilica of St. Callistus, and as the Bishop of Imola, an office he held until 1816.

In 1785, as a result of a " fit of illness " in the family the young Turner was sent to stay with his maternal uncle, Joseph Mallord William Marshall, in Brentford, which was then a small town west of London on the banks of the River Thames.

The county was originally part of Ninety-Six District, South Carolina, but was designated Abbeville County in 1785, with parts of the county later going to the creation of the counties of Greenwood and McCormick.

The southwest corner of Marion County is the intersection of the Baseline with the Third Principal Meridian, the point of origin for the third survey of the Northwest Territory under the Land Ordinance of 1785.

At the age of fifteen Brock joined the 8th ( The King's ) Regiment of Foot on 8 March 1785 with the rank of ensign, and was likely given responsibility for the regimental colours.