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1785| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1785 | Austria [orchestral music] | The Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn completes his Symphonies No. 83, La Poule/The Hen, and No. 85, La Reine/The Queen. He also completes his String Quartets Nos. 50 to 56 (Opus 51). | | 1785 | France [physics] | French scientist Charles Augustin Coulomb publishes Recherches théoriques et expérimentales sur la force de torsion et sur l'élasticité des fils de métal/Theoretical and Experimental Research on the Force of Torsion and on the Elasticity of Iron Threads, in which he makes the first precise measurements of the electric forces of attraction and repulsion between charged bodies. | | 1785 | England [astronomy] | German-born English astronomer William Herschel argues in his work On the Construction of the Heavens that the Milky Way galaxy is composed of individual stars and is not some luminous fluid. | | 1785 | [maths] | French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Marie-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, publishes ‘Essai sur l'application de l'analyse à la probabilité des décisions rendues à la pluralité des voix/Essay on the Application of the Analysis to the Probability of Decisions Made to the Plurality of Voters’, a major advance in the study of probability in the social sciences. | | 1785 | UK [newspapers] | English journalist John Walter starts publication of the Daily Universal Register in London, England. In 1788 the newspaper will change its name to The Times. | | 23 July 1785 | Prussia, Bavaria, Habsburg Monarchy [diplomacy] | Frederick II the Great of Prussia forms the Fürstenbund (League of Princes) to oppose Habsburg monarch Joseph II's Bavarian exchange scheme and preserve the status quo among German states. |
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‘Haydn’ Quartets
Alken, Henry Thomas
Armstrong, John
Arnim, Bettina von
Asbury, Francis
Barnes, Thomas
basset horn
Bellamy, George Anne
Callcott, John Wall
Cartwright, Edmund
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Jefferson, Thomas
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Paris Symphonies
Romney, George
Schenk, Johann Baptist
Smith, James Edward
Teyber, Franz
Zumsteeg, Johann Rudolf
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| shot, fragments of astronomical instruments, a piece of crown work, and a bronze clock, bearing this inscription--"Bazin m'a fait," the mark of the foundry of the arsenal at Brest about 1785. In 1785 the author’s father, who had an interest in extensive tracts of land in this wilderness, arrived with a party of surveyors. 1749 and 1758, Adamson made a reconnoissance of the river, and visited Gorea; from 1785 to 1788, Golberry and Geoffroy travelled across the deserts of Senegambia, and ascended as far as the country of the Moors, who assassinated Saugnier, Brisson, Adam, Riley, Cochelet, and so many other unfortunate men. |