1785 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1785 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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[edit] Events
- 1 January The first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later known as The Times, is published in London.[1]
- 7 January - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air. [1]
- 7 March - James Hutton proposes the the theory of uniformitarianism to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [2]
[edit] Unknown dates
- British government establishes a permanent land force in the Eastern Caribbean, based in Barbados
- William Pitt the Younger introduces a Reform Bill to Parliament to abolish the rotten boroughs, but it is defeated.[3]
[edit] Births
- 18 May - John Wilson, writer (d. 1854)
- 6 July - William Jackson Hooker, botanist (d. 1865)
- 15 August - Thomas de Quincey, writer (d. 1859)
- 18 October - Thomas Love Peacock, satirist (d. 1866)
- 25 September - George Pinto, composer and keyboard virtuoso (d. 1806)
- 18 November - David Wilkie, artist (d. 1841)
[edit] Deaths
- 19 January - Jonathan Toup, classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
- 23 January - Matthew Stewart, mathematician (b. 1717)
- 14 April - William Whitehead, writer (b. 1715)
- 30 June - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
- 26 August - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, soldier and politician (b. 1716)
- 25 November - Richard Glover, poet (b. 1712)
[edit] References
- ^ a b (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ^ Downing Street biography of Pitt
