1885 Calendar
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1885 Historical Event(s)
January 20, 1885
– L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
February 5, 1885
– King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
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 2, 1885
– Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories, Canada, killing 9.
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.
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 22, 1885
– Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
November 19, 1885
– Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
December 22, 1885
– Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
Who Were Born On 1885?
January 2, 1885
– Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
February 7, 1885
– Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1951)
February 26, 1885
– Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
March 31, 1885
– Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)
August 1, 1885
– George de Hevesy, Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
August 15, 1885
– Edna Ferber, American novelist (d. 1968)
August 26, 1885
– Jules Romains, French author (d. 1972)
November 5, 1885
– Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
November 26, 1885
– Heinrich Brüning, German politician (d. 1970)
December 22, 1885
– Deems Taylor American conductor and music critic (d. 1966)