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 4, 1885 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
- 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 28, 1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
- April 3, 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
- May 2, 1885 – Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
- 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.
- July 6, 1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
- August 29, 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen
- September 2, 1885 – Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
- September 18, 1885 – Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
- 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 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 1, 1885 – First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas (United States).
- December 22, 1885 – Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
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