Major Events
- May 23 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
- Jul 4 James Hutton, geologist, publicly reads an abstract of his theory of uniformitarianism for the first time at the meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Jul 6 US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage
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1785 in Music
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Jacob Grimm
John James Audubon
Mahmud II
José Miguel Carrera
William BeaumontMore People Born in 1785
Fun Fact About 1785
Napoléon Bonaparte, aged 16, graduates from the elite École Militaire in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
Haym SalomonMore 1785 Deaths
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Frederick the Great
Louis XVI
William Pitt the Younger