1785 In Science

Aviation

• January 7 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air

Exploration

• Andr Michaux is sent by the French government to North America to look for new plants

Awards

• Copley Medal: William Roy

Births

• March 22 - Adam Sedgwick, geologist (died 1873)
• April 26 - John James Audubon, naturalist, illustrator (died 1851)

Deaths

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