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1785 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Years: 1782 1783 1784 - 1785 - 1786 1787 1788
Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1785 in art 1785 in literature 1785 in music 1785 in science List of state leaders in 1785 List of religious leaders in 1785

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January 1st The first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later known as The Times, is published in London.
January 7 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Americann John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.
January 27 The University of Georgia founded
July 6 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States. This is the first time a nation has adopted a decimal coinage system.
August 1 - Fleet of French explorer Jean Francois de Galoup, count la Përouse leaves Paris for circumnavigation
August 15 - Cardinal de Rohan is arrested in Paris - the necklace affair comes into open
November – Drought in Haiti
University of New Brunswick founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Coal gas first used for illumination
Louis XVI of France signs to a law that a handkerchief must be square
British government establishes a permanent land force in the Eastern Caribbean, based in Barbados

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