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.
- January 17, 1885 – A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
- January 20, 1885 – L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
- March 3, 1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
- April 3, 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
- May 1, 1885 – The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.
- 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.
- June 17, 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
- 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 6, 1885 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
- September 12, 1885 – Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football.
- September 18, 1885 – Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
- November 16, 1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and “Father of Manitoba”, Louis Riel is executed for treason.
- December 1, 1885 – First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas (United States).
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