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1785 in France

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1785 in France

Decades:
  
1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s

See also:
  
Other events of 1785 Timeline of French history

Events from the year 1785 in France.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch: Louis XVI

    • January

  • 7 January - French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard crosses the English Channel in a balloon

    • July

  • 16 July - The Piper-Heidsieck Champagne house is founded by Florens-Louis Heidsieck in Reims, France.

    • August

  • 15 August - Cardinal de Rohan is arrested in Paris; the Necklace Affair comes into the open.

    • Births

  • 10 February - Claude-Louis Navier
  • 27 March - Louis XVII
  • 3 April - François-Jean-Hyacinthe Feutrier
  • 21 April - Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut
  • 5 May - Charles Xavier Thomas
  • 12 July - Joseph Pelet de la Lozère
  • 30 September - Ange Hyacinthe Maxence, baron de Damas
  • 5 October - Joseph Bernelle
  • 10 October - Florestan I, Prince of Monaco
  • 13 October - Jean-Charles Persil
  • 28 November
  • Federico de Brandsen
  • Victor de Broglie
  • 22 December - Achille Libéral Treilhard
  • 26 December - Laurent Clerc
  • Marie Durand, saint (d. 1864)

    • Deaths

  • 7 January - Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau
  • 4 February - Donat Nonnotte
  • 8 May - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul
  • 15 June
  • Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, during failed cross channel balloon flight
  • 20 August - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
  • 15 November - César Gabriel de Choiseul
  • 18 November - Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans

    • References

    1785 in France Wikipedia
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