1885

1885 is a common year starting on Thursday (click on link for calendar) {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1882 1883 1884 - 1885 - 1886 1887 1888 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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\n1885 in Canada\n----\nList of state leaders in 1885
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Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 Fictional events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 4 - The first successful appendectomy is performed (Dr. William Grant; patient was Mary Gartside).\n* January 20 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.\n* January 26 - Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum\n* February 5 - King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal possession.\n* February 9 - The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.\n* February 18 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.\n* February 21 - The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.\n* February 26 - Final Act of the Berlin Conference regulates European colonisation and trade in Africa.\n* March 3 - A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.\n* March 4 - Grover Cleveland replaces Chester A. Arthur as President of the United States.\n* March-May - North-West Rebellion took place and was put down in Canada.\n* March 31 - The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.\n* May 9-12 - Canadian government forces inflict decisive defeat on Métis rebels at the Battle of Batoche.\n* June 17 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.\n* July 6 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister; a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.\n* July 20 - Professional football legalized in Britain\n* 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.\n* September 18 - Union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria proclaimed at Plovdiv.\n* September 30 - A British force abolishes the Boer republic of Stellaland and adds it to British Bechuanaland.\n* November 7 - Canadian Pacific Railway finished: In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on a railway extending across Canada. Prime Minister John A. Macdonald considered the project to be vital to Canada.\n* November 14-28 - Serbo-Bulgarian War: Serbia declares war against Bulgaria but is defeated in Battle of Slivnitsa on November 17-19.\n* November 16 - Canadian rebel leader of the Métis, Louis Riel is executed for high treason.\n* 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.\n* December 28 – 72 Indian lawyers, academicians and journalists gather in Bombay to form the Congress Party \n*Creation of the first genuine bicycle, the Rover, by John K Starley.\n*John Boyd Dunlop invents the pneumatic tyre.\n*W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan's The Mikado\n* The Times reports that "A lady well-known in literary and scientific circles" has been cremated by the Cremation Society in Woking, Surrey. She is the first person to be officially cremated in United Kingdom\n* Cholera epidemic in Spain – one of the victims is the king Alfonso XII\n* Third Burmese War begins\n* Sitting Bull joins Buffalo Bill\n* Randolph Churchill becomes a viceroy of India\n* Nikola Tesla sells a number of his patents to George Westinghouse\n* Local anesthetic\n* First skyscraper – Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, USA (10 floors)

Fictional events

\n* Wednesday, September 2, 1885 - In the third film of Back to the Future Trilogy, Marty McFly arrives on this date to stop Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen from killing Doc Brown.

Births

\n* January 8 - John Curtin, Australian Prime Minister, (d. 1945)\n* January 11 - Alice Paul, women's rights activist\n* January 21 - Umberto Nobile, politician and airship designer (d. 1978)\n* January 27 - Eduard Künnecke, composer (d. 1953)\n* January 27 - Jerome Kern, composer (d. 1945)\n* January 29 - Leadbelly\n* February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, US novelist\n* February 9 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer\n* February 9 - Anita Ree, painter (d. 1933))\n* February 13 - Bess Truman, wife of US President Harry S. Truman\n* February 15- Her Serene Highness Princess Alice of Battenberg\n* February 21 - Sacha Guitry, dramatist, writer, director, actor (d. 1957)\n* February 24 - Chester Nimitz, US admiral (d. 1966)\n* March 6 - Ring Lardner, writer (d. 1933)\n* March 11 - Sir Malcolm Campbell, land and water racer (d. 1948)\n* March 31 - Pascin, the "Prince of Montparnasse" \n* April 1 - Wallace Beery, actor (d. 1949)\n* April 3 - Allan Dwan, film director (d. 1981)\n* April 4 - Arthur Murray, dancer\n* May 2 - Hedda Hopper, columnist (d. 1966)\n* May 7 - George 'Gabby' Hayes, actor (d. 1969)\n* May 14 - Otto Klemperer, conductor\n* May 22 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral\n* July 28 - Monte Attell, bantamweight world boxing champion (d. 1960)\n* June 14 - E. L. Grant Watson\n* June 22 - Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962\n* September 11 - D.H. Lawrence, author\n* September 22 - Ben Chifley, Australian Prime Minister\n* October 7 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 1962)\n*November 5 - William James Durant, later known as Will Durant, American philosopher and writer (d. 1981)\n* November 11 - George Patton, American general (d. 1945)\n* December 19 - Joe King Oliver, jazz musician (d. 1938)

Deaths

\n* April 2 - Justo Rufino Barrios, Central American leader\n* May 22 - Victor Hugo, author\n*August 10 - James Wilson Marshall, contractor and builder of Sutter's Mill\n* September 15 - Jumbo the elephant; run over by a locomotive\n* November 16 - Louis Riel, Canadian Métis leader (hanged for treason) \n* November 25 - King Alfonso XII of Spain\n* December 8 - William Henry Vanderbilt, entrepreneur \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n