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- Events January–March April–June July–September October–December Date unknown
- Births January–March April–June July–September October–December
- Deaths January–June July–December Date unknown
- In fiction
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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}}{{Year dab|1885|M-1885|Model 1885}}{{Year nav|1885}}{{C19 year in topic}}{{Year article header|1885}}{{TOC limit|2}} Events January–March - January 3–4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam.
- January 4 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant, on Mary Gartside.
- January 17 – Mahdist War in Sudan – Battle of Abu Klea: British troops defeat Mahdist forces.
- January 20 – American inventor LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents a roller coaster.
- January 24 – Irish terrorists damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite.[1]
- January 26 – Mahdist War in Sudan: Troops loyal to Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad conquer Khartoum; British commander Charles George Gordon is killed.[2]
- February 5 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State, as a personal possession.
- February 7 – The play La vida alegre y muerte triste by dramatist José Echegaray opens.
- February 9 – The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
- February 16 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index stood at a level of 62.76, and represented the dollar average of 14 stocks: 12 railroads and two leading American industries.[3]
- February 21 – United States President Chester A. Arthur dedicates the Washington Monument.
- February 23
- Sino-French War – Battle of Đồng Đăng: France gains an important victory over China, in the Tonkin region of modern-day Vietnam.
- An English executioner fails after several attempts to hang John Babbacombe Lee, sentenced for the murder of his employer Emma Keyse; Lee's sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.
- February 26 – The final act of the Berlin Conference regulates European colonization and trade, in the scramble for Africa.[2]
- February 28 – February concludes without having a full moon.
- March 3 – A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.
- March 4 – Grover Cleveland is sworn in, as the 22nd President of the United States.
- March 7 – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid is founded.
- March 14 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado opens, at the Savoy Theatre in London.[4]
- March 26
- Prussian deportations: The Prussian government, motivated by Otto von Bismarck, expels all ethnic Poles and Jews without German citizenship from Prussia.
- The North-West Rebellion in Canada by the Métis people, led by Louis Riel, begins with the Battle of Duck Lake.
- First legal cremation in England: Mrs Jeannette C. Pickersgill of London, "well known in literary and scientific circles",[5] is cremated by the Cremation Society at Woking, Surrey.
- March 30 – The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident, which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
- March 31 – The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.[6]
April–June - April 2 – Frog Lake Massacre: Cree warriors led by Wandering Spirit kill 9 settlers at Frog Lake in the Northwest Territories.
- April 3 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent, for his single-cylinder water-cooled engine design.
- April 11 – Luton Town Football Club is created by the merger of (Luton) Wanderers F.C. and Luton Excelsior F.C. in England.
- April 14 – Sino-French War: A French victory at Kép causes China to withdraw its forces from Tonkin, in the final engagement of the conflict.
- April 30 – A bill is signed in the New York State legislature, forming the Niagara Falls State Park.
- May 2
- Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time in the United States.
- North-West Rebellion – Battle of Cut Knife: Cree and Assiniboine warriors win their largest victory over Canadian forces.
- The Congo Free State is established, by King Leopold II of Belgium.
- May 9–12 – North-West Rebellion – Battle of Batoche: Canadian government forces inflict a decisive defeat on Métis rebels, bringing an end to their part in the rebellion.
- May 19 – After a three-month legislative battle in the Illinois General Assembly, John A. Logan is re-elected to the United States Senate.
- May 20 – The first public train departs Swanage railway station, on the newly built Swanage Railway in England.
- June 3 – Battle of Loon Lake: The Canadian North-West Mounted Police and allies force a party of Plains Cree warriors to surrender in the last skirmish of the North-West Rebellion, and the last battle fought on Canadian soil.
- June 17 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
- June 23 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- June 24 – Randolph Churchill becomes Secretary of State for India.
July–September - July 6 – Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux successfully test their rabies vaccine. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
- July 14 – Sarah E. Goode is the first African-American woman to apply for and receive a patent, for the invention of the hideaway bed.
- July 15 – The Reservation at Niagara Falls opens, enabling access to all for free. Thomas V. Welch is the first Superintendent of the Park.
- July 20 – Professional football is legalized in Britain.
- July 28 – Louis Riel's trial for treason begins in Regina.
- August 19 – S Andromedae, the only supernova seen in the Andromeda Galaxy so far by astronomers, and the first ever noted outside the Milky Way, is discovered.
- August 29 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for the Daimler Reitwagen, regarded as the first motorcycle, which he has produced with Wilhelm Maybach.[7][8][9]
- September 2 – The Rock Springs massacre occurs in Rock Springs, Wyoming; 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
- September 6 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, completing the Unification of Bulgaria.
- September 8 – Saint Thomas Academy is founded in Minnesota.
- September 12 – Arbroath FC defeats Bon Accord FC, 36-0, in the highest score ever in professional football.
- September 15 – A train wreck of the P. T. Barnum Circus kills giant elephant Jumbo, at St. Thomas, Ontario.
- September 18 – The union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria is proclaimed at Plovdiv.
- September 30 – A British force abolishes the Boer republic of Stellaland, and adds it to British Bechuanaland.
October–December - October 3 – Millwall F.C. is founded by workers on the Isle of Dogs in London, as Millwall Rovers.
- October 12 – The city of Fresno, California is incorporated.
- October 13 – The Georgia Institute of Technology is established in Atlanta, as the Georgia School of Technology.
- October 25 – Symphony No. 4 (Brahms) is premiered in Meiningen, Germany, with Johannes Brahms himself conducting it.
- November – The Third Anglo-Burmese War begins.
- November 7 – Canadian Pacific Railway: In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on a railway extending across Canada. Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald considers the project to be vital to Canada, due to the exponentially greater potential for military mobility.
- November 14–28 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Serbia declares war against Bulgaria, but is defeated in the Battle of Slivnitsa on November 17–19.
- November 16 – Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader of the Métis, is executed for high treason.
- December 1 – The U.S. Patent Office acknowledges this date as the day Dr Pepper is served for the very first time; the exact date of Dr. Pepper's invention is unknown.
- December 28 – 72 Indian lawyers, academics and journalists gather in Bombay, to form the Congress Party.
Date unknown - Karl Benz produces the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, regarded as the first automobile (patented and publicly launched the following year).[10]
- John Kemp Starley demonstrates the Rover safety bicycle, regarded as the first practical modern bicycle.[11]
- Chile's Matrimony and Civil Registry laws come into effect.
- A cholera outbreak occurs in Spain.
- The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney, is completed. With ten floors and a fireproof weight-bearing metal frame, it is regarded as the first skyscraper.[12]
- Bicycle Playing Cards are first produced.
- The Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association is established in the United Kingdom, to provide charitable assistance.
- Camp Dudley, the oldest continually running boys' camp in the United States, is founded.
- John Ormsby publishes his new English translation of Don Quixote, acclaimed as the most scholarly made up to that time. It will remain in print through the 20th Century.
- Michigan Technological University (originally Michigan Mining School) opens its doors for the first time, in the future Houghton County Fire Hall.
Births January–March - January 6 – Florence Turner, American actress (d. 1946)
- January 8 – John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945)
- January 11
- Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (d. 1965)
- Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (d. 1977)
- January 12
- Harry Benjamin, American endocrinologist, sexologist (d. 1986)
- Claude Fuess, 10th Headmaster of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (d. 1963)
- January 14 – Constantin Sănătescu, 44th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1947)
- January 16 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)
- January 21 – Umberto Nobile, Italian aviator and explorer (d. 1978)
- January 25 – Roy Geiger, American general (d. 1947)
- January 26
- Michael Considine, Australian politician (d. 1959)
- Harry Ricardo, English mechanical engineer, engine pioneer (d. 1974)
- January 27
- Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)
- Eduard Künneke, German composer (d. 1953)
- Harry Ruby, American musician, composer, and writer (d. 1974)
- January 28 – Władysław Raczkiewicz, former President of Poland (d. 1947)
- January 30 – John Henry Towers, U. S. Admiral and naval aviation pioneer (d. 1955)
- February 1 – Friedrich Kellner, German diarist, (d. 1970)
- February 7
- Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
- Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (d. 1953)
- February 9 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer (d. 1935)
- February 10 – Rupert Downes, Australian general (d. 1945)
- February 13
- Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (d. 1982)
- George Fitzmaurice, French-American motion picture director (d. 1940)
- February 14
- Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian-born Muslim philosopher (d. 1949)
- Zengo Yoshida, Japanese admiral (d. 1966)
- February 15 – Princess Alice of Battenberg (d. 1969)
- February 18 – Richard S. Edwards, American admiral (d. 1956)
- February 21 – Sacha Guitry, Russian-born dramatist, writer, director, and actor (d. 1957)
- February 22 – Pat Sullivan, Australian-born director, animated film producer (d. 1933)
- February 24
- Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (d. 1966)
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter (d. 1939)
- February 26 – Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
- March 6 – Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
- March 7 – John Tovey, British admiral of the fleet (d. 1971)
- March 11 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land, water racer (d. 1948)
- March 14 – Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
- March 27 – Julio Lozano Díaz, President of Honduras (d. 1957)
- March 31 – Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)
April–June - April 1
- Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)
- Clementine Churchill, wife of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (d. 1977)
- April 3
- Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (d. 1981)
- St John Philby, Ceylonese-born British Arabist (d. 1960)
- April 4 – Bee Ho Gray, American Wild West star, silent film actor and vaudeville performer (d. 1951)
- April 7 – Walther Schwieger, German U-boat commander of U-20, which sank the Lusitania (d. 1917)
- April 12 – Hermann Hoth, German general (d. 1971)
- April 13
- John Cunningham, British admiral (d. 1962)
- Otto Plath, American father of poet Sylvia Plath, entomologist (d. 1940)
- Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964)
- April 16 – Charles Debbas, 1st President, 5th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1935)
- April 17 – Karen Blixen, Danish author (d. 1962)
- April 29 – Frank Jack Fletcher, American admiral (d. 1973)
- May 2
- Hedda Hopper, American columnist (d. 1966)
- Lee W. Stanley, American cartoonist (d. 1970)
- May 5 – Agustín Pío Barrios, Paraguayan guitarist, composer (d. 1944)
- May 7 – George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor (d. 1969)
- May 9 – Eduard C. Lindeman, American social worker, author (d. 1953)
- May 12 – Paltiel Daykan, Russian-born Israeli jurist (d. 1969)
- May 14 – Otto Klemperer, German conductor (d. 1973)
- May 15 – Robert James Hudson, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d. 1963)
- May 20 – Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
- May 21
- Oscar A. C. Lund, Swedish film actor, director, and writer (d. 1963)
- Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (d. 1936)
- May 22 – Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
- May 24 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English educational psychologist, psychoanalyst (d. 1948)
- May 27 – Richmond K. Turner, American admiral (d. 1961)
- May 30 – Arthur E. Andersen, American accountant (d. 1947)
- June 2 – Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, German neuropathologist (d. 1964)
- June 4 – Arturo Rawson, President of Argentina (d. 1952)
- June 5 – Georges Mandel, French politician, World War II hero (d. 1944)
- June 9
- John Edensor Littlewood, British mathematician (d. 1977)
- Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1962)
- Harry Gribbon, American comedy actor (d. 1961)
- June 14 – E. L. Grant Watson, English writer, anthropologist, and biologist (d. 1970)
- June 13 – John Palm, Curaçao-born composer (d. 1925)
- June 21 – Harry A. Marmer, Ukrainian-born American mathematician, oceanographer (d. 1953)
- June 22 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player (d. 1962)
- June 23 – Elaine Bellew-Bryan, Baroness Bellew, South African-Irish nurse (d. 1973)
- June 24
- Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist (d. 1975)
- Hugues Laurent, French set designer (d. 1990)
- June 28
- Marino Capicchioni, Italian musical instrument maker (d. 1977)
- Camille Clifford, Belgian actress (d. 1971)
- June 29 – Andrew Tombes, American comedian and character actor (d. 1976)
July–September - July 4 – Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957)
- July 6
- Charles Wisner Barrell, American writer (d. 1974)
- Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
- July 8
- Ann Jemimia Flower, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 1995)
- Paul Leni, German film director (The Cat and the Canary) (d. 1929)
- July 9 – Luo Meizhen, Chinese supercentenarian (d. 2013)
- July 10 – Mary O'Hara, American author and screenwriter (d. 1980)
- July 14 – King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
- July 15
- Tom Kennedy, American actor (d. 1965)
- Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, 1st Prime Minister of Sudan (d. 1959)
- July 16 – Hakuun Yasutani, Sōtō rōshi (d. 1973)
- July 18 – Marino Moretti, Italian poet and author (d. 1979)
- July 19 – Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese diplomat, humanitarian (d. 1954)
- July 22 – John Thomas Kennedy, American lieutenant general (d. 1969)
- July 28 – Monte Attell, American boxer (d. 1960)
- July 29 – Theda Bara, American silent film actress (d. 1955)
- August 1 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
- August 18 – Bede Fanning, Australian public servant (d. 1970)
- September 7 – Eleonore Baur, German Nazi, only woman to participate in Munich Beer Hall Putsch (d. 1981)
- September 11
- D. H. Lawrence, English novelist (d. 1930)
- Julian C. Smith, American general (d. 1975)
- September 15 – James P. Boyle, American politician (d. 1939)
- September 20 – Enrico Mizzi, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1950)
- September 21 – Thomas de Hartmann, Russian composer (d. 1956)
- September 22
- Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
- George Gaul, American actor (d. 1939)
- Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born motion picture actor, director (d. 1957)
- September 25 – Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (d. 1944)
- September 27 – Harry Blackstone Sr., American magician and illusionist (d. 1965)
October–December - October 3 – Sophie Treadwell, American playwright, journalist (d. 1970)
- October 7 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
- October 9 – Raymond DeWalt, American inventor, businessman (d. 1961)
- October 11 – François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- October 19 – Charles E. Merrill, American banker, co-founder of Merrill Lynch (d. 1956)
- October 24 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Zionist political figure, wife of third President of Israel (d. 1975)
- October 28 – Per Albin Hansson, 2-time Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1946)
- October 30 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
- November 1 – Anton Flettner, German aviation engineer, inventor (d. 1961)
- November 2 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)
- November 5 – Will Durant, American philosopher, writer (d. 1981)
- November 8
- Eva Morris, last surviving person documented as born in 1885 (d. 2000)
- Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
- November 9 (October 28 (O.S.)) – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922)
- November 11
- George Patton, American general (d. 1945)
- Edgar J. Kaufmann, American merchant and patron of Fallingwater (d. 1955)
- November 15 – Frederick Handley-Page, British aviation pioneer, aircraft company founder (d. 1962)
- November 26 – Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany 1930-1932 (d. 1970)
- November 28 – John Willard, American playwright, actor (d. 1942)
- November 30
- Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
- Ma Zhanshan, Chinese general (d. 1950)
- December 2 – George Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1950)
- December 6 – Ernest Palmer, American cinematographer (d. 1978)
- December 10 – Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic (d. 1973)
- December 13 – Mario Talavera, Mexican songwriter (d. 1960)
- December 19
- John Lavarack, Australian general, Governor of Queensland (1946-1957) (d. 1957)
- Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz musician (d. 1938)
Unknown birth month: Otto Orkin(died February 11, 1968), pesticide founder, though some birth years are given for 1887 and 1888. His grave marker lists 1885.[13] Deaths January–June - January 11 – Mariano Ospina Rodríguez, President of Colombia (b. 1805)
- January 13 – Schuyler Colfax, 17th Vice President of the United States (b. 1823)
- January 26 – Charles "Chinese" Gordon, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1833)
- February 1 – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, British inventor (b. 1850)
- February 8 – Nikolai Severtzov, Russian explorer, naturalist (b. 1827)
- February 19 – José María Pinedo, Argentinian naval commander (b. 1795)
- March 12 – Próspero Fernández Oreamuno, President of Costa Rica (b. 1834)
- March 13 – Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician (b. 1795)[14]
- April 2 – Justo Rufino Barrios, Central American leader (b. 1835)
- April 25 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (b. 1836)
- May 2 – Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian Slovene author (b. 1817)
- May 4 – Irvin McDowell, American general (b. 1818)
- May 17 – Jonathan Young, United States Navy commodore (b. 1826)
- May 19 – Robert Emmet Odlum, American swimming instructor (died as result of becoming the first person to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge) (b. 1851)
- May 20 – Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, 29th United States Secretary of State (b. 1817)
- May 22 – Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)
- June 11 – Amédée Courbet, French admiral (b. 1827)
- June 17 – Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, German field marshal (b. 1809)
- June 22 – Muhammad Ahmad, Sudanese Mahdi (b. 1844)
July–December - July 21 – Karolina Sobańska, Polish noble, agent (b. 1795)
- July 23 – Ulysses S. Grant, American Civil War general, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
- August – Aga Khan II, Iranian religious leader (b. 1830)
- August 6 – Emil Zsigmondy, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1861)
- August 10 – James W. Marshall, American contractor, builder of Sutter's Mill (b. 1810)
- August 29 – Moriz Ludassy, Hungarian journalist (b. 1825)
- September 2 – Giuseppe Bonavia, Maltese architect (b. 1821)
- September 5 – Zuo Zongtang, Chinese general and politician (b. 1812)
- September 6 – Narcís Monturiol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine, which was propelled by an early form of air-independent propulsion (b. 1819)
- September 15
- Jumbo, African elephant, star attraction in P. T. Barnum's circus (train accident) (b. 1861)
- Carl Spitzweg, German romanticist painter (b. 1808)
- October 1 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician and philanthropist (b.1801)
- October 5 – Thomas C. Durant, American railroad financier (b. 1820)
- October 29 – George B. McClellan, American Civil War general, politician (b. 1826)
- November 16 – Louis Riel, Canadian-American leader (executed) (b. 1844)
- November 24 – Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentine president (b. 1837)
- November 25
- King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
- Thomas Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
- November 26 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (b. 1813)
- December 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (b. 1821)
- December 13 – Benjamin Gratz Brown, American politician (b. 1826)
- December 15 – Ferdinand II of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria II (b. 1816)
Date unknown - Eugenia Kisimova, Bulgarian feminist, philanthropist and women's rights activist (b. 1831)
In fiction - September 2–September 7 – The film Back to the Future Part III takes place during this time. Dr. Emmett Brown is initially murdered by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen in Hill Valley, California (1885); however, Marty McFly later prevents this murder.
- The stage "Bury My Shell at Wounded Knee", in the 1992 video game Turtles in Time, is set in this year.
- The Nickelodeon TV movie, Lost in the West, takes place in this year.
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Further reading- {{cite book|title=Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1885 |volume=25 |year=1887 |publisher=D. Appleton and Co. |location=New York |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hb0r95 |via=Hathi Trust}}
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