* Peter Cartwright ( 1785 – 1872 ), born in Amherst County, noted " hellfire and brimstone " preacher

In 1785 he was invited to Padua University, but to retain his services his sovereign doubled his salary and allowed him leave of absence for a visit to Turkey where he remained nearly a year and made many observations, among which may be noted those of a copper mine in Chalki and of an iron mine at Principi.

The Rookhope Ride is a ballad rescued and noted down by Joseph Ritson from the chanting of George Collingwood of Boltsburn near Rookhope about 1785.

Johann Gottlob Friedrich Wieck ( 18 August 1785 – 6 October 1873 ) was a noted German piano teacher, voice teacher, owner of a piano store, and music reviewer.

* 1714 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor ( d. 1785 )

While in France during the Rococo era Jean-Baptiste Greuze was the favorite painter of Denis Diderot ( 1713 – 1785 ), and Maurice Quentin de La Tour ( 1704 – 1788 ), and Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun were highly accomplished Portrait painters and History painters.

* January 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor ( d. 1785 )

* Jean-Baptiste Stouf ( 1785 )

It is named after the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle ( 1714 – 1785 ).

The place takes its name from the sculptor, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle ( 1714 – 1785 ), and it is the best-known district of the Quartier Pigalle, the Pigalle neighborhood.

Pigalle is a station on lines 2 and 12 of the Paris Métro, named after the Place Pigalle, which commemorates the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle ( 1714 – 1785 ) on the border of the 9th and the 18th arrondissement.

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle ( 26 January 1714 – 20 August 1785 ) was a French sculptor.

" Etteilla ," the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette ( 1738 – 1791 ), was the French occultist who was the first to popularise tarot divination to a wide audience ( 1785 ), and therefore the first professional tarot occultist known to history who made his living by card divination.

In 1785, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published a description of a second species of Cannabis, which he named Cannabis indica.

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 ).

Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ( d. 1787 ), founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, then brought some attention back to casuistry by publishing again Hermann Busembaum's Medulla Theologiae Moralis ; the last edition published in 1785 and receiving the approbation of the Holy See in 1803.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb developed the law of electrostatic attraction in 1785 as an outgrowth of his attempt to investigate the law of electrical repulsions as stated by Joseph Priestley in England.

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

* 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.

He was alarmed by the Spanish diplomat Don Diego de Gardoqui, who in 1785 tried to convince Congress to allow Spain to close the Mississippi River to American traffic for 30 years.

* 1785 – Bernard de Bury, French composer ( b. 1720 )

* 1785 – Victor de Broglie, Prime Minister of France ( d. 1870 )

File: Coulomb. jpg | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( 1736-1806 ): formulated a law in 1785 which described the electrostatic interaction between electrically charged particles ( attraction and repulsion ) and was essential to the development of the theory of electromagnetism, namesake of the unit of electric charge: the coulomb ( C )

* André Charles, marquis de La Jaille, Voyage au Sénégal pendant les années 1784 et 1785, avec des notes jusqu ’ à l ' an X par P. Labarthe, Paris, Denter, 1802.

* Paul Bouteiller, Le Chevalier de Boufflers et le Sénégal de son temps ( 1785 – 1788 ), Lettres du Monde, Paris, 1995.

They were rediscovered by Guillaume Amontons ( 1699 ) and were further developed by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( 1785 ).

* December 8 – Thomas de Quincey, English writer ( b. 1785 )

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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb experimentally verified this in 1785 and stated explicitly that the North and South poles cannot be separated.

In 1785, Condorcet wrote Essai sur l ’ application de l ’ analyse à la probabilité des décisions rendues à la pluralité des voix ( Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions ), one of his most important works.

* December 20 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat ( d. 1785 )

* June 28 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman ( d. 1785 )

** Austrian East India Company, a series of companies going under the names of Société impériale asiatique de Trieste et Anvers, or Société asiatique de Trieste, based in Ostend and Trieste, founded 1775 by William Bolts and ceased 1785

On 27 March 1785, Marie Antoinette gave birth to a second son, Louis Charles, who was created the duc de Normandie.

He was unexpectedly challenged by his formerly disgraced cousin, the duc de Chartres, who had inherited the title of duc d ' Orléans at the death of his father 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.

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

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.

The work consisted of a speller ( published in 1783 ), a grammar ( published in 1784 ), and a reader ( published in 1785 ).

Cowper is best known, not just for his contribution to the Olney Hymns, but as a poet, letter-writer, and translator: his works include The Diverting History of John Gilpin ( 1782 ), The Task ( 1785 ) and his translation of Homer, published in 1791.

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

In 1785, Withering published An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses, which contained reports on clinical trials and notes on digitalis's effects and toxicity.

In 1785 he was elected a Fellow of the very prestigious Royal Society and also published his Account of the Foxglove ( see below ).

The book was published in 1785 under the title of The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, and was made a part of the examinations at the University of Cambridge the next year.

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 ).

Thomas Jefferson wrote in Notes on the State of Virginia, published in 1785, that

In 1785, he published his first work, a patriotic poem, " The Valour of the Magyars ".

* Klopstocks Oden und Lieder beym Clavier zu Singen ( Vienna, 1785 ; individually published during 70s )

* William Beaumont ( 1785 – 1853 ), " Father of Gastric Physiology " whose book describing digestion, published in 1833, became a classical medical study still used today.

" In verse, Dwight wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The Conquest of Canaan, finished in 1774 but not published until 1785, a somewhat ponderous and solemn satire, The Triumph of Infidelity ( 1788 ), directed against David Hume, Voltaire and others ; Greenfield Hill ( 1794 ), the suggestion for which seems to have been derived from John Denham's Coopers Hill ; and a number of minor poems and hymns, the best known of which is that beginning " I love thy kingdom, Lord ".

Baron Munchausen is a character from The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( or Baron Münchhausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels ) by Rudolf Erich Raspe — a collection of tall tales published in 1785, based on the German adventurer Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen.

An English version was published in London in 1785, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, as Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, also called The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

In 1785, the Reverend Martin Madan published Thoughts on Executive Justice urging the doctrine of maximum severity.

Tired of teaching, he resigned his professorship in 1785, and devoted himself to the revision of his lectures, which he published ( 1792 ) under the title of Principles of Moral and Political Science.

His son Heinrich Ludwig Planck ( 1785 – 1831 ), also professor of theology at Göttingen, published Bemerkungen über den ersten Brief an den Timotheus ( 1808 ) and Abriss d. philos.

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.