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1785
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by
Gorgonzola
Sun Nov 05 2000 at 1:39:31
Born in 1785:
American bird illustrator
John James Audubon
.
English
geologist
Adam Sedgwick
.
Chinese
official Lin Tse-Hsü (
pinyin
Lin Zixu
) whose actions precipitated the
1839
-
1842
Opium War
.
English
poet
and author
Thomas Love Peacock
.
German folklorist
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm
.
French
physicist
Claude Navier
.
French
mathematician
Charles Brianchon
.
French sailor and explorer
Comte Jean-François Galaup de
Lapérouse
French physicist
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
.
Baltimore
socialite
Elisabeth "Betsy" Patterson
, who married
Napoleon Bonaparte
's brother
Jerome
; her brother's widow married the
Duke of Wellington
.
French
composer
Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly
.
American poet and
Unitarian
minister
John Pierpont
(also the maternal
grandfather
of
John Pierpont Morgan
).
Died in 1785:
Italian
composer
Baldassare Galuppi
.
James Edward Oglethorpe
, founder of
Georgia
.
Events of 1785:
The
United States
declares
the
dollar
its unit of currency.
The
United States
concludes a
treaty with the
Cherokee
Indians, and a separate treaty with the
Wyandot
and
Lenni-Lenape
(
Delaware
) Indians.
The US Goverment starts selling
the lands it has purchased from the Indians a $1 an acre.
The Cherokee's lands were whittled away bit by bit by 11 more treaties, until
1838
when
gold
was allegedly discovered on the small bit of territory left, and President
Andrew Jackson
ordered them removed west to
Oklahoma
. The
Wyandot
were pushed out of
Ohio
with all the other tribes by
William Henry Harrison
during the
War of 1812
.
Landowners in the
Scottish Highlands
begin
evicting
the
clan
s who live there from the land to make way for
sheep
, which are more profitable. The "
Highland Clearances
" force tens of thousands of people to move to the coast to a miserable existence of
fishing
and
kelp
collecting. The only avenue of existence left to most young men was to enlist in a "Highland Regiment" of the British Army.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
begins working on his opera of the popular
Beaumarchais
play
The Marriage of Figaro
.
Spain
pays to transport
seven shiploads of
Acadians
from
Nova Scotia
to
Louisiana
.
Frenchman
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
and American
John Jeffries
are the first to fly
a
balloon
across the
English Channel
.
In
France
, The
Cardinal de Rohan
presents what he thinks is a gift to Queen
Marie Antoinette
, a ridiculously expensive
Diamond Necklace
. Alas, the money to pay for the necklace is embezzled, and the French Treasury eventually has to foot the bill. As France's finances are slightly this side of
bankruptcy
, a public scandal ensues from this
affair
and does little to endear the Queen to France's starving
peasant
ry.
Shah
Agha Mohammad Khan
moves the
capital of
Persia
to
Teheran
.
1784
-
1785
-
1786
1786
1784
Saint John
James Edward Oglethorpe
Thomas Barnes
Rectangular Survey System
Jupiter Wise
Louis XVII
Opium War
Uniformitarianism
Lenni-Lenape
Betsy Patterson
Jerome Bonaparte
Rudjer Boskovic
Highland clearances
The Marriage of Figaro
William Aitkin
The Affair of the Queen's Necklace
Aqua-fontis
Adam Sedgwick
1215
Gollum vs. Regis Philbin
1750
Tehran
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