1785 in science

1785 in science
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The year 1785 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1 Aviation
2 Exploration
3 Medicine
4 Awards
5 Births
6 Deaths

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

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

Medicine

William Withering publishes An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses.

Awards

Copley Medal: William Roy

Births

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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