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 |
| 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 |
- January 1 – The Montgolfier brothers fly across the English Channel.
- December 26 – Laurent Clerc, co-founder of the first American school for the deaf
- 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)
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