1785

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  – 1780s –  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1782 1783 1784 – 1785 – 1786 1787 1788

Events

• January 1  – The Montgolfier brothers fly across the English Channel.

Births

• December 26  – Laurent Clerc, co-founder of the first American school for the deaf

Deaths

• January 3  – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
• January 19  – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
• January 23  – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
• April 14  – William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
• May 8  – Etienne Francois, Duke of Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
• June 2  – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
• June 30  – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
• August 17  – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
• August 26  – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
• August 28  – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
• October 4  – David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. 1703)
• November 19  – Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
• November 25  – Richard Glover, English poet (b. 1712)
• December 29  – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian author (b. 1742)

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