1885 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1885?
- February 21, 1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
- 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.)
- March 3, 1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
- 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 3, 1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
- July 1, 1885 – The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
- 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 14, 1885 – Japan’s first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
- 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 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.
- September 29, 1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
- November 19, 1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
- November 28, 1885 – Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
- December 22, 1885 – Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
- December 28, 1885 – Indian National Congress a political party of India is founded in Bombay, British India.
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