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1885

1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday.

Years:
1882 1883 1884 - 1885 - 1886 1887 1888

Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1885 in topic:
Humanities
Archaeology - Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
By country
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. - UK
Other topics
Rail Transport - Science - Sports
Lists of leaders
Colonial Governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths

Events

January 4 - The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
January 20 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
January 26 - Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum

February 5 - King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal possession.
February 9 - The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
February 18 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
February 21 - US president Chester A. Arthur dedicates the Washington Monument
February 23 - British executioner fails to hang John Lee, sentenced of the murder of Emma Keyse. Sentence is commuted to life imprisonment
February 26 - Final Act of the Berlin Conference regulates European colonisation and trade in Africa.

March-May - North-West Rebellion took place and was put down in Canada.
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 replaces Chester A. Arthur as President of the United States.
March 14 - W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's The Mikado opens at the Savoy Theatre.
March 26 - The Times reports that "A lady well-known in literary and scientific circles" has been cremated by the Cremation Society in Woking, Surrey. Jeannette C. Pickersgill was the first person to be officially cremated in the United Kingdom
March 30 - Pandjeh Incident - Russian force routs Afghan troops and drive them across the Pul-iKhishti bridge
March 31 - The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.

May 2
- Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
- Cree and Assiniboine warriors won the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
- The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.
May 9-12 - Canadian government forces inflict decisive defeat on Métis rebels at the Battle of Batoche.

July 6 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister; a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
July 20 - Professional football legalized in Britain

September 2 - 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. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
September 18 - Union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria proclaimed at Plovdiv.
September 30 - A British force abolishes the Boer republic of Stellaland and adds it to British Bechuanaland.

December 1 - The US Patent Office acknowledges this date as the day Dr Pepper was served for the very first time; the exact date of Dr Pepper's invention is unknown.
December 28 - 72 Indian lawyers, academicians and journalists gather in Bombay to form the Congress Party