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.

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.

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.

In 1785 it passed to the Lur-Saluces family when Françoise-Joséphine de Sauvage d ' Yquem married Count Louis-Amédée de Lur-Saluces, a godson of Louis XV and Lady Victoire de France.

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.

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.

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 June 1785, owing to damp conditions, he and Caroline moved to Clay Hall in Old Windsor.

When Alströmer experienced financial losses in 1785 and moved to his estate at Gåsevadsholm, outside Kungsbacka, Dahl followed.

Genevieve was moved to its present higher location, from the river bottoms after the devastating floods of 1785.

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

Following the great flood of 1785, the town moved from its initial location on the floodplain of the Mississippi River, to its present location two miles north and about a half mile inland.

* Mary Lum ( 1758 – 1815 ), moved here with her husband Stephen Girard in 1777 before being committed for the rest of her life to the insanity ward at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1785.

In 1785, he moved to Bavaria where he became an aide-de-camp to the Prince-elector Charles Theodore.

After 1785, they were again moved, this time to the gates of Newgate prison — just to the south of Smithfield.

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.

The Chechens moved to retake the lowlands: in 1785, a holy war was declared on the Russians by Sheikh Mansur, who was captured in 1791 and died a few years later.

He graduated in 1785 and moved to the town of Eskilstuna, where he worked as the provincial medical officer.

Edward moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1785.

In 1785 he moved to London, Lord Shelburne, then a minister of state, having invited him to undertake the education of his sons.

Ordained a priest in 1785, Chaminade moved to Bordeaux in 1790, after the French Revolution had begun.

In 1785, they moved again, this time to a tract of land that would eventually be known as " Locustland ," near modern Castalian Springs, Tennessee.

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

* Hall Tavern Visitor Center-Originally built c. 1785 in Charlemont, Massachusetts, with a ballroom wing that was added around 1815, the building was moved to Deerfield and converted to a visitor center.

Smith moved to New York City in 1785 where he was a prominent merchant.

After the war, in 1785, he moved first to Hallowell ( now Augusta ), Maine with his family, and then six years later they moved to Farmington, where Belcher remained until his death.

All that is known is that the church trustee Franz von Paula Romayr had the tombstone moved to the wall of the chapel in 1785 in order to protect it from further damage “ caused by depredatory footsteps ”.

The national capital then moved to Annapolis, Maryland in November 1783, then to Trenton, New Jersey in November 1784 before finally moving to New York City in January 1785.

In 1764 the state abolished the redundant Diocese of Saray and Don ; in 1785, it abolished Diocese of Krutitsy and shut down the abbey, its relics and archives moved to Chudov Monastery.

Carrington purchased Scott's Virginia farm in 1785, but allowed the family to live there until they moved to the frontier.