1885 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1885?
- January 1, 1885 – Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming’s proposal for standard time (and also, time zones)
- January 26, 1885 – Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
- February 5, 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
- February 9, 1885 – The first Japanese government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
- February 21, 1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
- March 3, 1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
- March 19, 1885 – Louis Riel declares a Provisional Government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
- May 2, 1885 – The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.
- May 12, 1885 – North-West Rebellion: the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
- June 9, 1885 – A peace treaty is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam - most of present-day Vietnam - to France.
- June 17, 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
- July 20, 1885 – The Football Association legalizes professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association.
- August 29, 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen
- September 6, 1885 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
- September 22, 1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
- November 7, 1885 – In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway extending across Canada.
- November 16, 1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and “Father of Manitoba”, Louis Riel is executed for treason.
- November 28, 1885 – Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
- November 29, 1885 – End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy
- December 22, 1885 – Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
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