Carlo-Maria ( Ajaccio 1746 – Montpellier 1785 ) married Maria Letizia Ramolino ( Ajaccio 1750 – Rome 1836 ) in 1764.

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

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.

Astor married Sarah Todd on September 19, 1785.

About 1785 Maskelyne married Sophia Rose of Cotterstock, Northamptonshire.

They married in 1785 ( which was after he left Kassel ) and had three children, but their marriage was not happy.

On 24 December 1803, Jérôme married Elizabeth Patterson ( 1785 – 1879 ), daughter of Baltimore merchant William Patterson and his wife, Dorcas Spear.

He married Infanta Maria Antonietta of Spain ( 1729 – 1785 ), youngest daughter of Philip V of Spain and Elisabeth Farnese.

* Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville ( née the Lady Harriet Elizabeth Cavendish ; called " Harryo "; 29 August 1785 – 25 November 1862 ), married the 1st Earl Granville and had issue.

After the death of Jane Irwin Boggs in 1783, John Boggs married Mary Williamson Barr ( 1748-1828 ), the widow of Robert Barr ( 1750-1778 ), about 1785.

# Maria Clinton ( October 6, 1785 – April 17, 1829 ); married Dr. Stephen D. Beekman, a grandson of Pierre Van Cortlandt

At some point in the 1785 – 1787 period he married and the couple had a child, but the names of the wife and child, and their eventual fates, are not known.

In 1785, having by then returned to society at Montreal, he married Julia Calcutt Kittson ( 1756 – 1835 ), " a woman of considerable personal fortitude ".

Armfelt married 1785 countess Hedvig Ulrika De la Gardie ( 1761 – 1832 ), daughter of count Carl Julius De la Gardie and countess Magdalena Christina Stenbock.

The mistake derived from a misreading of Talma's Mémoires where the actor recalls an episode in which a Madame Vestris-not Eliza Vestris, as she was born several years later, but Françoise-Marie-Rosette Gourgaud, who married Angiolo Vestris-played Camille to his Horace in 1785.

* George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford ( 11 September 1757-20 April 1802 ), who married, firstly, Maria Frances Mary Hobart-Hampden ( died 23 April 1794 ), daughter of the 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire, on 30 September 1785 and had issue.

Robert Haldane, 3rd of Airthrey married Catherine Cochrane Oswald, daughter of George Oswald of Scotstown, on 24 April 1785.

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

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

He married 1 Nov. 1785 Jeanne-Charlotte Berczy née Allamand ( 1760 – 1839 ) of Lausanne ( canton of Bern, now-since 1803-canton of Vaud ), Switzerland.

In about 1785 he married a young woman ( perhaps Mary Elliott, the daughter of a Waterford tanner ).

One recent, heroically unsubstantiated claim is that Prince Charles married in 1785 and fathered a legitimate child.

Lord Camden married Frances, daughter of William Molesworth, in 1785.

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.

Elizabeth, 19th Countess of Sutherland then married George Granville Leveson-Gower in 1785 ; he inherited the title of Marquess of Stafford from his father in 1803.

Jean-Pierre Blanchard flew the first human-powered dirigible in 1784 and crossed the English Channel in one in 1785.

) 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.

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 ).

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.

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.

He also carried out research into dyes and bleaches, being first to introduce the use of chlorine gas as a commercial bleach in 1785.

Bertholett first determined the elemental composition of the gas ammonia, 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.

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.

* 1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.

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.

* 1785 – John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register ( later renamed The Times ).

It was one of the first industrial cities of the modern era where, as early as 1785, two hundred pottery manufacturers employed 20, 000 workers.

The book was first published in France in 1785 and in England in 1787.

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.

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, which settled James Freeman ( 1759 – 1835 ) in 1782, and revised the Prayer Book into a mild Unitarian liturgy in 1785.

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register ( it became The Times on 1 January 1788 ).

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.

The first man-made diffraction grating was made around 1785 by Philadelphia inventor David Rittenhouse, who strung hairs between two finely threaded screws.

Milne House is named after Ying Wa's first principal Milne ( 1785 – 1822 )， He came to China in 1812 to be a missionary.

The first recorded use of donkey was in 1784 or 1785.