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.

* November 10 – Richard Caswell, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman and Governor of North Carolina ( 1776 – 1780, 1785 – 1787 ) ( b. 1729 )

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

Ashe County did not formally become a part of North Carolina until 1785.

The public buildings in the National Register Historic District include the First Congregational Church ( 1818 ,) the Old Town Hall ( 1846 ,) the United Methodist Church, the St. Paul's Episcopal Church ( 1785 ,) and the North Congregational Church ( 1816.

He travelled to the area then known as the State of Franklin or western North Carolina, called " the Holston country ," by 1785 and, during a stay at a tavern adjacent to Colonel Thomas Amis ' home, had fallen in love with the Colonel's daughter, Mary Amis.

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

John Wilson of Ellerey FRSE ( 18 May 1785 – 3 April 1854 ) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

* 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.

He died in Providence in 1785 at the age of 78, and is buried in the North Burial Ground there.

Symmes represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress ( 1785 – 1786 ), then, in 1788, moved to the west, settling in what later became North Bend, Ohio.

He twice served as Governor of the Province of Quebec, from 1768 to 1778, concurrently serving as Governor General of British North America in that time, and from 1785 to 1795 .< ref >

After the summer of 1785, the government of Franklin ( which was by then based in Greeneville ), ruled as a " parallel government " running alongside ( but not harmoniously with ) a re-established North Carolina bureaucracy.

* Sir Charles Edward Grey ( 1785 – 1865 ), MP for Tynemouth and North Shields, UK, then Governor of Barbados, 1841 – 1846

The land dips steeply to the North and the West, where prior to 1785 the river Sutlej used to run.

The General Assembly elected Spaight a delegate to the Continental Congress between 1782 and 1785 ; he then served in the North Carolina House of Commons from 1785 to 1787, and was named Speaker of the House.

He returned to North Carolina, where he served in the North Carolina Senate during periods from 1778 to 1782, in 1785, and from 1787 to 1788.

In 1782, the General Assembly elected him North Carolina Governor ; he served until 1785.

The duration of these deployments varied considerably, sometimes exceeding a decade ; its first tour of North America began in 1768 and ended in 1785.

Other former pubs include The Chequer, recorded in 1785 but believed to have closed soon after, and The Green Man which stood next to the brewery at North End and was open from 1808 till the late 19th century.

Later expeditions to explore the North East Passage took place in the 1760s ( Vasiliy Chichagov ), 1785 – 95 ( Joseph Billings and Gavril Sarychev ), the 1820s and 1830s ( Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, Pyotr Fyodorovich Anjou, Count Fyodor Litke and others ).

* John Long ( North Carolina politician ) ( 1785 – 1857 ), U. S. Representative from North Carolina

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.

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.

After the war he served as the 35th Governor of South Carolina ( 1785 – 87, 1792 – 94 ).

Abram Marshall Scott ( 1785 – July 12, 1833, age 47 – 48 ) was a Democratic Mississippi politician born in South Carolina ( Edgefield County ).

The College was founded in 1770 and chartered in 1785, making it the oldest college or university in South Carolina, the 13th oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the oldest municipal college in the country.

Founded in 1770 and chartered in 1785, the College of Charleston is the oldest institution of higher education in South Carolina, and the 13th oldest in the United States.

Peabody traces its history to 1785, when Davidson Academy was chartered by the state of North Carolina, of which Tennessee was then a part.

William Cumming ( 1724 – 1797 ) was an American lawyer who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress for North Carolina in 1785.

The couple moved to Mississippi from South Carolina sometime in 1785.

The Continental Congress named him surveyor of North Carolina in May 1785 and was named commissioner to sign State paper money in December 1785.

Lauchlin Bethune ( 15 April 1785 – 10 October 1874 ) was a U. S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1831 and 1833.

Born near Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1785, Bethune attended private schools and the Lumberton Male Academy.

He then served in the house of Pennsylvania General Assembly ( 1785 – 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, the General Court granted a petition of Raby to annex an additional three-quarters of a mile of the western Hollis border.

The city was incorporated in 1785 as Tennessee's first incorporated city, and named for General George Rogers Clark, frontier fighter and Revolutionary War hero, and brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

General William Moultrie, victor at the Battle of Sullivan's Island in 1776 and governor from 1785 – 87 and 1792 – 94, was originally buried here but was exhumed and reburied at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island in 1977.

He resigned all his legal offices in 1785, retaining only that of Commissary General of the stores at Gibraltar, which continued to provide him with a substantial income until his death.

* General Sir Thomas Brotherton, ( 1785 – 1868 ), died nearby at Upper Court and is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard.

In 1766 he was elected to the Governor's Council of the Connecticut General Assembly, where he served until 1785.

The University of Georgia was incorporated on January 27, 1785, by the Georgia General Assembly, which had given its trustees, the Senatus Academicus of the University of Georgia, 40, 000 acres ( 160 km² ) for the purposes of founding a “ college or seminary of learning .” The Senatus Academicus was composed of the Board of Visitors and the Board of Trustees with the Georgia Senate presiding over those two boards.

* General José Miguel Carrera ( 1785 – 1821 ), independentist leader, who governed Chile during its first period of independence, the Patria Vieja.

Between 1783 and 1785, the Georgia General Assembly met in both Savannah and Augusta ; the primary cause for the moves arose when tensions were created between the cities of Savannah and Augusta causing then Governor Lyman Hall to officially reside in both places.

On February 22, 1785, the General Assembly held its last meeting in Savannah.

( In 1785 Johnson was granted title to the former King's College Tract by the Vermont General Assembly as a form of compensation for representing Vermont.

* 1785 Philadelphia -- Initial General Convention of the Episcopal Church

In 1785, he was elected to the Confederation Congress by the Maryland General Assembly, but his numerous public and private duties prevented him from traveling to Philadelphia.

* Charles Joseph Patissier, Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau, a notable French Governor General of Pondicherry between 1783 and 1785.

General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier KCB ( 7 December 1785 – 12 February 1860 ), Irish soldier in the British Army and military historian, third son of Colonel George Napier ( 1751 – 1804 ) and his wife, Lady Sarah Lennox ( 1845-1826 ) was born at Celbridge, near Dublin.

In October 1785, at Colonel Morgan's request, the Virginia General Assembly specified that of his land was to be laid out in lots of a half acre each, and a town, named Morgans-Town, established on the site.

Medals on the wall commemorate P. Jan Roothaan ( 1785 – 1853 ) and P. Pedro Arrupe ( 1907 – 1991 ), the 21st and 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus.

In about 1785, Ramsden provided a new large theodolite for General William Roy of the Royal Engineers, which was used for a new survey of the distance between Greenwich, London and Paris.

Cornell served as Scituate's town meeting moderator in 1768, 1781 and 1785 and as a Deputy ( Representative ) from Scituate to the General Assembly in 1772, 1774 and 1775.