1785

1785 (MDCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1785th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 785th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1785, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  – 1780s –  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1782 1783 1784 – 1785 – 1786 1787 1788

1785 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1785 MDCCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2538
Armenian calendar	1234 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	6535
Balinese saka calendar	1706–1707
Bengali calendar	1192
Berber calendar	2735
British Regnal year	25 Geo. 3 – 26 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2329
Burmese calendar	1147
Byzantine calendar	7293–7294
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4481 or 4421     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4482 or 4422
Coptic calendar	1501–1502
Discordian calendar	2951
Ethiopian calendar	1777–1778
Hebrew calendar	5545–5546
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1841–1842
- Shaka Samvat	1706–1707
- Kali Yuga	4885–4886
Holocene calendar	11785
Igbo calendar	785–786
Iranian calendar	1163–1164
Islamic calendar	1199–1200
Japanese calendar	Tenmei 5 (天明５年)
Javanese calendar	1711–1712
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4118
Minguo calendar	127 before ROC 民前127年
Nanakshahi calendar	317
Thai solar calendar	2327–2328
Tibetan calendar	阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 1911 or 1530 or 758     — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1912 or 1531 or 759

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 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)