What is 1785?
{{Year nav|1785}} {{Year in various calendars|1785}} {{Year article header|1785}} == 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 [[deafness|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 writer (b. [[1742]]) [[Category:1785| ]]