In the year 1785, the first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later known as The Times, is published in London (Jan 1), the English Channel is crossed by air for the first time (Jan 7), a hot air balloon crashing in Ireland becomes the world’s first aviation disaster (May 10), the dollar is chosen as the money unit for the United States (Jul 6), the Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation (Nov 28) - and all these fine people were born:
1785-0101 Pietari Makkonen* folk poet - Hanhijärvi, Sweden-Finland (1851/66)
1785-0104 Jacob Grimm* philologist/jurist/mythologist/the older of the library duo the Brothers Grimm - Hanau, Hesse-Kassel, Holy Roman Empire (1863/78)
1785-0115 William Prout* chemist/physician/ natural theologian - Horton, Gloucestershire, England (1850/65)
1785-0202 Isabella Colbran* opera singer - Madrid, Spain (1845/60)
1785-0226 Anna Sundström* (b Persdotter) first female chemist in Sweden - Kymlinge, Sweden (1871/86)
1785-0311 Eleonore Prochaska* German woman soldier who fought in the Prussian army against Napoleon - Potsdam (1813/28)
1785-0317 Ellen Hutchins* botanist - Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland (1815/29)
1785-0404 Bettina von Arnim* poet - Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Holy Roman Empire (1859/73)
1785-0426 John James Audubon* American ornithologist/naturalist/ painter - Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue (today’s Haiti) (1851/65)
1785-0429 Karl Drais* inventor/creator of a precursor to the bicycle - Karlsruhe, Holy Roman Empire (1851/66)
1785-0518 John Wilson* advocate/writer - Paisley, Scotland (1854/68)
1785-0706 William Jackson Hooker* botanist/botanical illustrator - Norwich, England (1865/80)
1785-0815 Thomas De Quincey* writer - Manchester, Lancashire, England (1859/74)
1785-0823 Oliver Hazard Perry* naval commander - South Kingstown, Rhode Island (1819/34)
1785-0928 David Walker* African-American abolitionist/writer - Wilmington, North Carolina (1830/33)
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1785-1015 José Miguel Carrera* general/founding father - Santiago, Chile (1821/35)
1785-1018 Thomas Love Peacock* satirist/official of the East India Company - Weymouth, Dorset, England (1866/80)
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1785-1024 Thomas Brown* politician/Governor of Florida - Westmoreland County, Virginia, British America (1867/81)
1785-1026 Maria Juhontytär Latva-Luhtasela** (b Orhanen) mother of Mikko Juhonpoika Hakoniemi - Kurikka, Sweden-Finland (1823/37)
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1785-1117 Julia Nyberg* (b Svärdström) poet/songwriter - Skultuna, Sweden (1854/69)
1785-1118 David Wilkie* painter - Pitlessie, Fife, Scotland (1841/55)
1785-1223 Christian Gobrecht* engraver/designer of the United States Seated Liberty coinage - Hanover, Pennsylvania (1844/58)
Updated 1.4.2023-2
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