- 1785 in science
The year 1785 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events.Aviation
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January 7 - FrenchmanJean-Pierre Blanchard and AmericanJohn Jeffries travel fromDover ,England toCalais ,France in a gasballoon , becoming the first to cross theEnglish Channel by airExploration
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André Michaux is sent by the French government toNorth America to look for newplant sMedicine
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William Withering publishes "An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses".Awards
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Copley Medal :William Roy Births
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March 22 -Adam Sedgwick ,geologist (died 1873)
*April 26 -John James Audubon , naturalist,illustrator (died 1851)
*July 6 -William Jackson Hooker , botanist (died 1865)Deaths
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