1785 - What happened in 1785 ?

January 1785

Friday 07:

Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.

Thursday 13:

John Walter publishes first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times).

Wednesday 26:

Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to his daughter expressing disappointment over the selection of the eagle as the symbol of the United States; he wanted the turkey.

Thursday 27:

The University of Georgia is founded.

June 1785

Wednesday 15:

Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.

July 1785

Wednesday 06:

The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.

November 1785

Monday 28:

Treaty of Hopewell was signed