1785

Events from the year 1785 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
* Sixth Confederation Congress (January 11, 1785 – November 4, 1785, New York, New York), Seventh Confederation Congress (November 7, 1785 – November 3, 1786, New York)
* President of the Confederation Congress: Richard Henry Lee (until November 4, 1785), John Hancock (starting November 23, 1785)
==Events==
* January 7 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.
* January 11 – The Confederation Congress reconvenes in New York City having previously convened in Trenton, New Jersey.
* January 21 – The Treaty of Fort McIntosh is signed between the U.S. government and representatives of the Wyandotte, Delaware, Chippewa and Ottawa nations of Native Americans.
* January 27 – The University of Georgia is granted a charter (written by Abraham Baldwin) by the Georgia General Assembly meeting in Savannah. The first students are admitted in Athens, Georgia in 1801.
* March 28 – Delegates from Virginia and Maryland meet at the Mount Vernon Conference to deal with issues regarding use of the Pocomoke and Potomac Rivers and the Chesapeake Bay. A suggestion to expand the interstate negotiations eventually leads to the Annapolis Convention.
* May 16 – Congress refuses admission of the State of Franklin to the Union.
* May 20 – The Land Ordinance of 1785 is adopted by the United States Congress to raise money by selling land acquired from the Treaty of Paris and the Public Land Survey System is established to map it.
* June 1 – John Adams, the first American ambassador to Great Britain, has his first meeting with King George III at the Court of St James's.
* July 6 – The United States dollar is unanimously chosen as the country's money unit, the first time a nation has adopted a decimal currency.
* September 10 – The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Kingdom of Prussia and the U.S. is signed, promoting free trade and demanding unconditionally humane custody for prisoners of war, a novelty at this time.
* November 28 – The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the U.S. and the Cherokee Nation.
* December 29 – The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Lincolnton, North Carolina (named for American General Benjamin Lincoln) as the new county seat for Lincoln County.
==Memoriam==
* January 6 – Haym Salomon, Jewish financier of the American Revolution (aged 44; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* July 13 – Stephen Hopkins, signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence (aged 78; Providence, RI, USA)
* August 17 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (aged 74; Lebanon, CT, USA)
* November 28 – William Whipple, signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, representative of New Hampshire (aged 55; NH, USA)
==External links==
* 1785 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 1