By 1785, Rococo had passed out of fashion in France, replaced by the order and seriousness of Neoclassical artists like Jacques Louis David.

Grattan supported the government for a time after 1782, and spoke and voted for the repressive legislation that followed the Whiteboy violence in 1785 ; but as the years passed without Pitt's personal favour towards parliamentary reform resulting in legislation, he gravitated towards the opposition, agitated for commutation of tithes in Ireland, and supported the Whigs on the regency question in 1788.

Its topography did not allow for much agriculture, so Antioquia became dependent upon trade, especially of gold and gin for the colonization of new land, although much of this trade was due to reformations passed after a visit from an inspector of the Spanish crown, Juan Antonio Mon y Velarde in 1785.

The Continental Congress passed the Land Ordinance of 1785 and then the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to control the survey, sale, and settling of the new lands.

Michael Rice died in 1785, and this business was passed into Edmund's ownership.

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.

Sold again in 1785 to Denys Rolle, the estate and the mill subsequently passed through marriage to the Clinton family, who still own the mill as part of the Clinton Devon Estates.

On May 3, 1785, William Grayson of Virginia made a motion seconded by James Monroe to change “ seven miles square ” to “ six miles square .” The ordinance was passed on May 20, 1785.

In the U. S. a federal law was passed in 1785 ( the Public Land Survey Ordinance ) that all official government surveys must be done with a Gunter's chain ( also referred to as the " surveyor's chain ").

All the male descendants of the 1st Earl of Anglesey became extinct in the person of George, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris, in 1844, when the titles of Viscount Valentia and Baron Mountnorris passed to his cousin Arthur ( 1785 – 1863 ), who thus became 10th Viscount Valentia, being descended from the 1st Viscount Valentia the father of the 1st Earl of Anglesey in the Annesley family.

In 1785 the fort passed into British possession.

On his death the title of Dauphin passed to his younger brother Louis Charles, Duke of Normandy ( 1785 – 1795 ), who would survive his father and die in prison at the age of ten.

In 1785, the diwani of the Bangla Suba was taken over by the British East India Company and the District of Sylhet, of which Karimganj was a part, passed on to the British.

In 1785 the North Carolina General Assembly passed a bill instructing the militiamen to cut and clear a road by the most eligible route to Nashville at least ten feet wide and fit for passage of wagons and carts.

When this was laid out in 1785, on the route of an ancient footpath, it passed through open land, but soon saw development of large private houses on both sides of it.

In January, 1785, an unusual piece of legislature was passed by the General Assembly for the regular establishment and support of religion in Georgia, mixing Church and State matters.

In 1785, Abraham Mordecai, a war veteran from a Sephardic Jewish family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, established a trading post.

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.

After the Dutch came to the area, the land was part of the Bisightick tract of the Van der Donck grant purchased by Frederick Philipse in 1682, but in 1785 the state of New York confiscated the land from his grandson, Frederick Philipse III, after he sided with the British in the American Revolution, and sold it to local patriot farmers who had been tenants of the Phillipse family.

The following fall, Elder returned to his family in Franklin County, and they returned in the spring of 1785, along with Elder's brother, David.

Among the first Euro-American settlers to move into the newly-gained territory was Frederick Emert ( 1754 – 1829 ), who arrived with his family sometime between 1785 and 1793.

* Alessandro Manzoni ( 1785 – 1873 ), poet and novelist, author of I promessi sposi, belonged to an old family of Lecco.

In November 1785, upon his father's death, Philippe, the new Duke of Orléans, became the head of the House of Orléans, one of the wealthiest families of France, and Premier Prince du Sang, addressed as Monsieur, the most important personage of the kingdom after the king's immediate family, and, as such, next in line to the throne should the main Bourbon line die out.

Surrounded by all the members of his immediate family, even his three children by Etiennette Le Marquis, Louis-Philippe died on 18 November 1785, at Sainte-Assise at the age of sixty.

José Miguel Carrera Verdugo ( October 15, 1785 – September 4, 1821 ) was a Chilean general, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile.

The first influential member of the Torlonia family was Marino Torlonia ( Tourlonias ; 1725 – March 21, 1785 ), who rose from humble origins in the Auvergne region of France to become a very rich businessman and banker in Rome.

Another member of the Pery family was Edmund Pery, 1st Viscount Pery, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons from 1771 to 1785.

In 1785, when a neighboring white family threatened the Princes, they appealed to the governor and his Council for protection.

The Qajar dynasty () ( or دودمان قاجار ; also anglicized as Ghajar or Kadjar ) is a Persianized Iranian royal family of Turkic origin, which ruled Persia ( Iran ) from 1785 to 1925.

One of the most prominent examples of a family dynasty of cunning people was the Harries family from Cwrt y Cadno in Wales ; Henry Harries ( 1739 – 1805 ) was a yeoman farmer who had an interest in astrology and medicine but did not practice as a cunning man, whilst his son, John ( 1785 – 1839 ), and two grandsons Henry and John instead became professionals in the field.

The original farmhouse was built by William Player between 1687 and 1689 ; the Hobhouse family acquired the house in 1785 and have owned it ever since.

He obtained his first contracts – for Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey – through family connections: his great-great grandfather, Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, had been the first president of Rutgers College from 1785 to 1790, when it was still called " Queen's College ".

In 1785, he married into the affluent iron mining family of Mary Brown, who then became known as Mary Brown Austin.

She returned home to the family castle briefly in 1785, and then her father sent her back to France at twelve years old to complete her education and get married.

She stayed at Mount Vernon with George Washington and his family in 1785 ; the two continued to correspond about the organisation of the ideal government for the remainder of her life.

In 1785 the family moved to Bonn, where Reicha became a member of the Hofkapelle of Max Franz, Elector of Cologne, under the direction of his uncle, playing the violin and the second flute.

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.

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.

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 – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight ( 1783 ), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.

However, in 1785, Laplace took the critical step forward when, rather than just looking for a solution in the form of an integral, he started to apply the transforms in the sense that was later to become popular.

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.

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 equipment is thought to be that which Benjamin Franklin purchased from Pierre Simon Fournier when he visited France for diplomatic purposes ( 1776 – 1785 ).

In 1785 Leopold visited Wolfgang and Constanze in Vienna, at a time when his son's career success was at its peak.

Later in 1785, when Leopold took in Nannerl's child, Wolfgang was not informed.

In 1785, York County was one of the original counties in the newly created state of South Carolina, and its boundaries remained unchanged until 1897, when a small portion of the northwestern corner was ceded to the newly-formed Cherokee County, South Carolina.

Clark County, Kentucky actually began as Bourbon County, Virginia in 1785, when it was created from Fayette County, Kentucky ( previously also in Virginia ).

But Leavitt would not be deterred: He moved his sermons to the schoolhouse, where he held forth until 1785, when he was finally dismissed.

Genevieve's original riverfront location, parts were relocated in 1785 when the house was expanded at the new site.

It was not until after the American Revolutionary War, when most of the Iroquois allies went to Upper Canada with the Loyalists, that the first European-American permanent settlement was made, around 1785.

Immediately after the period when the colonists were fighting for independence, or beginning with 1784 or 1785, several families leased land in Grafton from the patroon and began the cultivation of the land there.

Derry became a part of Dauphin County when it was established in 1785.

The town was uninhabited until 1785, when David Morse obtained title to 100 acres.

He argued that, according to the principles of the proposed legislation, Pitt should have been transported a decade before in 1785, when he had been advocating parliamentary reform.

He was admitted to the Académie française on 26 February 1784, and to the Académie des Inscriptions in 1785, when Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle's simultaneous membership of all three Academies was renewed in him.

The school opened with only eight boys but when the Barbaulds left in 1785, around forty were enrolled, a testament to the excellent reputation the school had acquired.

In 1785 when Dugald Stewart succeeded Ferguson in the Edinburgh chair of moral philosophy, Playfair succeeded the former in that of mathematics.

Victoria Hall, now the site of Brockville's City Hall, was built in 1862-64 as a concert hall in front and a butchers ' market in the rear This area of Ontario was first settled by English speakers in 1785, when thousands of American refugees arrived from the American Revolutionary War.

And, when Franklin was recalled to America in 1785, Le Ray honored him with a commissioned portrait painted by Joseph Siffred Duplessis that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

He was well-educated, and intended to become a lawyer, but his father's death when he was still a boy made it necessary for him to seek his fortune, and he enlisted as a private in the French infantry in 1785.