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.

* 1785 – Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman ( d. 1857 )

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.

He was ennobled in 1785 and became president of the Magistrat of the Governorate of Estonia, a province of the Russian Empire.

Count Hans Karl Friedrich Anton von Diebitsch und Narden or Graf Ivan Ivanovich Diebitsch-Zabalkansky () ( 13 May 1785, Groß Leipe near Obernigk, Lower Silesia – 10 June 1831, near Pułtusk ) was a German-born soldier serving as Russian Field Marshal.

In 1785 Sheikh Mansur and his fighters destroyed Russian forces in the Battle of Sunja.

Among his best-known portraits are Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya ( 1772 ), sometimes called the Russian Mona Lisa and admittedly the most celebrated piece of the 18th-century Russian painting ; Portrait of Countess Elisabeth Santi ( 1785 ), and Lady in a Pink Dress ( 1770s, illustration, right ).

He resided in Britain for the last 47 years of his life, from 1785 until his death in 1832, during which time he was the Russian ambassador to the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1785 to 1800 and to the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1806.

In 1783, he was appointed Russian minister at Vienna, but in 1785 was transferred to London.

The Rossiads only rival for the title of the longest poem in the Russian language is Kheraskov's Vladimir Reborn ( 1785 ), concerned with the baptism of Kievan Rus.

* Alexei Velyaminov ( 1785 – 1838 ), Russian general and brother of Ivan Velyaminov

Initially modeled on the Anglican ideals of older, European institutions, the University of New Brunswick was founded in 1785 as the Academy of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

He soon became an honorary member of many foreign academies and philosophic societies notably the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( 1785 ), in Germany, Imperial Russia, and the United States.

A number of important philosophical societies were formed, which were centers of the city's intellectual life: the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture ( 1785 ), the Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts ( 1787 ), the Academy of Natural Sciences ( 1812 ), and the Franklin Institute ( 1824 ).

The original terracotta and plaster models were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, in 1785.

Prout was born in Horton, Gloucestershire in 1785 and educated at 17 years of age by a clergyman, followed by the Redland Academy at Bristol and Edinburgh University, where he graduated in 1811.

Liberty Hall Academy became a college when it granted its first bachelor of arts degree in 1785, making it the ninth oldest institution of higher education in the country.

The initial volume of Academy Memoirs appeared in 1785, and the Proceedings followed in 1846.

Wyatt was elected to the Royal Academy in 1785, and took an active part in the politics of the Academy.

As a result, the Schenectady Academy was established in 1785 and thus originated the first organized school system in Schenectady.

The Academy was established in 1785 and granted royal charter in 1786.

In 1785 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A pupil of Richard Cosway, Kirk exhibited the first of 25 works at the Royal Academy in 1785, and created many famous engravings based either upon his own work or works by, amongst others, Angelica Kauffmann, Richard Westall or Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Westall was apprenticed to a heraldic silver engraver in 1779, where he was encouraged to become a painter by John Alefounder ; he then began studying at the Royal Academy School of Arts from 10 December 1785.

The Academy was founded in 1785 by Rev.

The three significant dates mark the foundation of the school in 1785, the transfer to the present site in 1880 and the approval by Queen Victoria of the designation Belfast Royal Academy in 1888.

* March 2-Jean Alaux, French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome ( b. 1785 )

After his Tables of the Products and Powers of Numbers, 1781, and his Mathematical Tables of 1785 ( second edition 1794 ), he issued, for the use of the Royal Military Academy, in 1787 Elements of Conic Sections, and in 1798 his Course of Mathematics.

* Colonel Sylvanus Thayer ( 1785 – 1872 ), " Father of the United States Military Academy "

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

Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer ( June 9, 1785 – September 7, 1872 ) also known as " the Father of West Point " was an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point and an early advocate of engineering education in the United States.

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

In 1785, Dundee Academy was opened in the Nethergate, in a hospital building built by the Trinitarian Friars before the Reformation ; today it is the site of St Andrews Roman Catholic Cathedral.

Allan was able to return to Edinburgh in 1814, and, in 1815, his picture of " Circassian Captives " attracted notice at the Royal Academy, though it did not find a purchaser ; however Sir Walter Scott, John Wilson ( 1785 – 1854 ) and his brother James ( 1795 – 1856 ), John Lockhart, and others, raised a lottery for it, with 100 subscribers at £ 10 10s.

In 1779, he was elevated to Bishop of Greenland and, in 1785, made a fellow of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.

One of Pitt ’ s first major actions as Prime Minister was, in 1785, to put a scheme of parliamentary reform before the Commons, proposing to rationalise somewhat the existing, decidedly unrepresentative, electoral system by eliminating thirty-six rotten boroughs and redistributing seats to represent London and the larger counties.

The Ordinance of 1785 put the 1784 resolution in operation by providing a mechanism for selling and settling the land, while the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 addressed political needs.

In 1785, Hannah Piggen from Massachusetts was the last person to be put to death for concealing the birth / death of an infant.

Mozart's Davide penitente ( 1785 ), his Piano Concerto in E flat major ( 1785 ), the Clarinet Quintet ( 1789 ) and the great Symphony in G minor ( 1788 ) had been premiered on the suggestion of Salieri, who supposedly conducted a performance of it in 1791.

Jan Ingenhousz had described the irregular motion of coal dust particles on the surface of alcohol in 1785 — nevertheless the discovery is often credited to the botanist Robert Brown in 1827.

Astor married Sarah Todd on September 19, 1785.

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.

Hutton subsequently read an abstract of his dissertation Concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration and Stability to Society meeting on 4 July 1785, which he had printed and circulated privately.

Though Hutton circulated privately a printed version of the abstract of his Theory ( Concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration, and Stability ) which he read at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 4 July 1785 ; the full account of his theory as read at the 7 March 1785 and 4 April 1785 meetings did not appear in print until 1788.

In 1780, a farm was reclaimed on the site of an ancient tenement near the Two Bridges, and in 1785, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt set about improving the moor at a place which he named Tor Royal, about south-east of Princetown.

Jefferson turned his written responses to Marbois into a book, Notes on the State of Virginia ( 1785 ).

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.

In 1785 James Hutton proposed an opposing, self-maintaining infinite cycle based on natural history and not on the Biblical record.

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.

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.

* 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

Year 1785 ( MDCCLXXXV ) was a common year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.