1785 in Great Britain

1785 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1785 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

Events

* 1 January The first issue of the "Daily Universal Register", later known as "The Times", is published in London.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 7 January - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.
* 7 March - James Hutton proposes the theory of uniformitarianism to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 ]
* 21 December - Prince of Wales marries Catholic Maria Fitzherbert, secretly, and in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act 1772.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 229-230|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]

Undated

* British government establishes a permanent land force in the Eastern Caribbean, based in Barbados
* William Pitt the Younger introduces a Reform Bill to Parliament to abolish the rotten boroughs, but it is defeated. [cite web|url=http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/page161.asp|title=Downing Street biography of Pitt|accessdate=2007-09-01]
* Governor-General of India Warren Hastings charged with maladministration and returns to Britain.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=337]

Publications

* James Boswell's "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

Births

* 30 January - Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe, colonial administrator (died 1846)
* 18 May - John Wilson, writer (died 1854)
* 6 July - William Jackson Hooker, botanist (died 1865)
* 15 August - Thomas de Quincey, writer (died 1859)
* 18 October - Thomas Love Peacock, satirist (died 1866)
* 25 September - George Pinto, composer and keyboard virtuoso (died 1806)
* 18 November - David Wilkie, artist (died 1841)

Deaths

* 19 January - Jonathan Toup, classical scholar and critic (born 1713)
* 23 January - Matthew Stewart, mathematician (born 1717)
* 14 April - William Whitehead, writer (born 1715)
* 30 June - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (born 1696)
* 26 August - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, soldier and politician (born 1716)
* 25 November - Richard Glover, poet (born 1712)

References

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