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1885 Calendar

1885 Calendar

January
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February
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1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
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March
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1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031    
April
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567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
2627282930  
May
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     12
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10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31      
June
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 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930    
July
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567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 
August
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2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     
September
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6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930   
October
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    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
November
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1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     
December
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  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

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1885 Historical Event(s)

  •  January 4, 1885 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
  •  May 2, 1885 – Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
  •  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.
  •  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.
  •  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.

Who Were Born On 1885?

  •  January 15, 1885 – Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)
  •  February 12, 1885 – Julius Streicher, Nazi German publisher (d. 1946)
  •  February 25, 1885 – Sylvia Brett, British socialite and wife of Charles Vyner Brooke (d. 1971)
  •  April 1, 1885 – Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)
  •  June 8, 1885 – Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (d. 1957)
  •  August 26, 1885 – Jules Romains, French author (d. 1972)
  •  September 12, 1885 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer (d. 1957)
  •  October 7, 1885 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
  •  November 2, 1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)
  •  November 11, 1885 – George Smith Patton, Jr., American general (d. 1945)