1785 in Ireland

Events

• Richard Crosbie successfully flies in a hot air balloon from Ranelagh Gardens to Clontarf.

Births

• 24 June – Alexander Porter, United States Senator for Louisiana (d.1844).
• 7 December – William Francis Patrick Napier, soldier and military historian (d.1860).
• Edward Bransfield, master in the Royal Navy (d.1852).
• Ellen Hutchins, botanist (d.1815).