Events from the year 1785 in Austria
Incumbents Monarch – Joseph II State Chancellor - Wenzel Anton
Events 29 July - Vienna experienced a flood that left much of the city submerged underwater Treaty of Fontainebleau; the Dutch agree to compensate the Austrian Netherlands for the continued closure of the Scheldt River to navigation.
Joseph II extends serfdom reforms to Hungary, granting peasants greater personal freedoms.Zöllner, Erich, Wagnleitner, Reinhold F., Roider, Karl A., Fellner, Fritz. "history of Austria". Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Mar. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Austria. Accessed 29 July 2025.
Births
6 January - Franz Gräffer, librarian and bookseller 6 February - Bernhard Caboga‑Cerva, general 2 November - Archduke Karl Ambrosius of Austria‑Este, Archbishop of Esztergom
13 December - Anna Milder‑Hauptmann, Vienna opera singer
Deaths 19 March - Melchior Rasp, stonemason 26 December - Ignatz Anton von Weiser, playwright and dialect poet. (b. 1701)
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