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

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