Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1785
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Literature
- James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel
Johnson
- William Cowper, The Task
- ??? Della Crusca (Robert Merry), The Florence Miscellany
- Sir William Jones, "A Hymn to Na'ra'yena"
Theatre
Art
- Horace Walpole, Essay on Modern Gardening
Music
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- The first balloon crossing of the English channel
- Claude Berthollet discovers that chlorine can be used to
bleach clothing
- Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
Politics & Law
- Warren Hastings returns from India to England;
Governors-General Cornwallis and Wellesley take over
- William Pitt introduces Bill for Parliamentary reform
- The Real Compañia de Filipinas is founded in the
Philippines
- The Treaty of Fontainbleu repeals the Barrier Treaty of 1715
Philosophy & Theology
Milestones
Miscellaneous
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