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| 1784 |
| | | A 24-year-old, William Pitt the Younger, is appointed Britain's prime minister by George III | |
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| 1784 |
| | | English ironmaster Henry Cort patents a process for puddling iron which produces a pure and malleable metal | |
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| 1784 |
| | | The first mail coach leaves Bristol for London, introducing a new era of faster transport | |
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| 1785 |
| | | Mozart and his friends perform for Haydn the Mozart quartets inspired by Haydn's 'Russian' quartets (op.33), which on publication are dedicated to him | |
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| 1785 |
| | | The French queen Marie Antoinette is wrongly implicated in a scandal involving a diamond necklace | |
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| c. 1785 |
| | | French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb begins publishing his discoveries in the field of electricity and magnetism | |
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| 1785 |
| | | James Hutton describes to the Royal Society of Edinburgh his studies of local rocks , launching the era of scientific geology | |
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| 1785 |
| | | William Withering's Account of the Foxglove describes the use of digitalis for dropsy, and its possible application to heart disease | |
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| 1785 |
| | | Napoleon graduates from his military college and is commissioned in an artillery regiment | |
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| 1785 |
| | | French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon crosses the Atlantic to sculpt a statue of George Washington from the life at Mount Vernon | |
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