What Happened in July 1785

Historical Events

Uniformitarianism

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
Jul 12 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands

Events in 1785

Famous Birthdays

Jul 6 William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and director (Kew Gardens), born in Norwich, England (d. 1865)
Jul 14 Mordecai Manuel Noah, American playwright, writer and journalist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1851)