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List of events
Events from the year 1785 in the United States .
Incumbents
Sixth
Confederation Congress (January 11, 1785 – November 4, 1785,
New York, New York ), Seventh Confederation Congress (November 7, 1785 – November 3, 1786, New York)
President of the Confederation Congress :
Richard Henry Lee (until November 4, 1785),
John Hancock (starting November 23, 1785)
Events
January 7 –
Frenchman
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and
American
John Jeffries travel from
Dover ,
England to
Calais ,
France in a hydrogen gas
balloon , becoming the first to cross the
English Channel by air.
January 11 – The
Confederation Congress reconvenes in
New York City having previously convened in
Trenton, New Jersey .
January 21 – The
Treaty of Fort McIntosh is signed between the U.S. government and representatives of the
Wyandotte ,
Delaware ,
Chippewa and
Ottawa nations of Native Americans.
January 27 – The
University of Georgia is granted a charter (written by
Abraham Baldwin ) by the
Georgia General Assembly meeting in
Savannah . The first students are admitted in
Athens, Georgia in 1801.
March 28 – Delegates from
Virginia and
Maryland meet at the
Mount Vernon Conference to deal with issues regarding use of the
Pocomoke and
Potomac Rivers and the
Chesapeake Bay . A suggestion to expand the interstate negotiations eventually leads to the
Annapolis Convention (1786) .
May 20 – The
Land Ordinance of 1785 is adopted by the
United States Congress to raise money by selling land acquired from the
Treaty of Paris and the
Public Land Survey System is established to map it.
June 1 –
John Adams , the first American ambassador to
Great Britain , has his first meeting with
King George III at the
Court of St James's .
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July 6 – The
United States dollar is unanimously chosen as the country's
money unit, the first time a nation has adopted a decimal
currency .
September 10 – The
Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the
Kingdom of Prussia and the U.S. is signed, promoting free trade and demanding unconditionally humane custody for prisoners of war, a novelty at this time.
November 28 – The
Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the U.S. and the
Cherokee Nation .
December 29 – The
North Carolina General Assembly incorporates
Lincolnton, North Carolina (named for American General
Benjamin Lincoln ) as the new county seat for
Lincoln County .
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Ongoing
Births
January 1 –
Gabriel Moore , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1831 to 1837 (died
1845 )
January 13 –
Samuel Woodworth , author, literary journalist, playwright, librettist and poet (died
1842 )
March 11 –
John McLean , politician,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died
1861 )
April 6 –
John Pierpont , poet, teacher, lawyer, merchant and Congregational minister (died
1866 )
April 26 –
John James Audubon , ornithologist, naturalist and painter, born in
Saint-Domingue (died
1851 )
June 24 –
Alexander Porter , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1833 to 1837, born in
County Donegal ,
Ireland (died
1844 )
August 23 –
Oliver Hazard Perry , naval officer (died
1819 )
September 1 –
Philip Allen , U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1853 to 1859 (died
1865 )
September 11 –
Presley Spruance , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1847 to 1853 (died
1863 )
September 26 –
Charles Bird King , portrait artist, painter of Native American delegates visiting Washington, D.C. (died
1862 )
September 27 –
David Walker , African American abolitionist (died
1830 )
November 21 –
William Beaumont , physician and surgeon (died
1853 )
December 23
Deaths
See also
References
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