Editing 1785 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 2]] &ndash; Don [[Diego de Gardoqui]] arrives in New York City as Spain's first minister to the United States.<ref name="Harper1785"/>
* [[July 6]] &ndash; The [[dollar]] (and a decimal currency system) is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States by the Congress of the Confederation.<ref>David C. Harper, ed., ''2011 North American Coins and Prices'' (Krause Publications, 2010) p9</ref> 
* [[July 16]] &ndash; The [[Piper-Heidsieck]] [[Champagne house]] is founded by [[Florens-Louis Heidsieck]] in [[Reims]], France.
* [[August 1]] &ndash; The fleet of French explorer [[Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse]] leaves Paris for the [[circumnavigation]] of the globe.
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Cardinal de Rohan]] is arrested in Paris; the [[Affair of the Diamond Necklace|Necklace Affair]] comes into the open.
* [[September 10]] &ndash; The [[United States]] and the Kingdom of [[Prussia]] sign a Treaty of Amity and Commerce.<ref>"The Role of Political Revolution in the Theory of International Law", by Theodor Schweisfurth, in ''The Structure and Process of International Law: Essays in Legal Philosophy, Doctrine and Theory'', ed. by R. St.J. Macdonald and Douglas M. Johnston (Martinus Nijhoff, 1986) p913</ref>
* [[September 13]]
**The [[Bank of North America]], central bank for the Confederation Congress government, loses its charter.<ref>Lawrence Lewis, ''A History of the Bank of North America, the First Bank Chartered in the United States" (J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1882) p54''</ref>
**[[Benjamin Franklin]] returns to [[Philadelphia]] after seven years as the U.S. Ambassador to [[France]] and prepares to take office as the new [[Governor of Pennsylvania]].<ref name=Zall>Paul Zall, ''Benjamin Franklin's Humor'' (University Press of Kentucky, 2005) p153</ref>