In history, year 1885 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1885.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 04 january | Sino-French War-French troops under General François Oscar deNégrier defeated a numerically superior Qing Chinese force at Nui Bopin northern Vietnam. |
| 15 january | American photographer Wilson Bentley took the first knownphotograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellowscamera to a microscope. |
| 23 february | Sino-French War: France gained an important victory in the Battle of ??ng ??ng in the Tonkin region of what is now Vietnam. |
| 03 march | American Telephone & Telegraph, at onepoint the world's largest telephone company, was incorporated in NewYork. |
| 14 march | The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performedSavoy opera, debuted at the Savoy Theatre in London. |
| 26 march | Feeling that Canada had failed to address the protection of their rights, the Métis people, led by Louis Riel, began the North-West Rebellion. |
| 02 april | North-West Rebellion-Led by Wandering Spirit, young Creewarriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories (now in Alberta), where they killed nine settlers. |
| 02 may | A small force of Cree and Assiniboine defeated a larger Canadian force in the Battle of Cut Knife, the natives' most successful battle during the North-West Rebellion. |
| 12 may | The Provisional Government of Saskatchewan was decisivelydefeated at the Battle of Batoche, which led to the end of the North-West Rebellion three days later. |
| 17 june | The Statue of Liberty arrived at New York Harbor. The Statue of Liberty was a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, built by Gustave Eiffel, and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. |
| 24 june | Tara Singh, freedom fighter and leader of Akali Dal Master, was born in the village Haryal, District Rawalpindi. Master Tara Sing was a prominent Sikh political and religious leader in the first half of the 20th century. He was instrumental in organizing the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee, in organizing Sikhs politically, and guided the Sikhs during the Partition of India. |
| 06 july | French chemists Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux successfullytested their vaccine against rabies on nine-year-old Joseph Meisterafter he was bitten by an infected dog. |
| 29 august | Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen. |
| 02 september | White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, US, attacked Chineseimmigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximatelyUS$150,000 in property damage. |
| 13 october | The Georgia Institute of Technology was established in Atlantaas part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in thepost-Civil War Southern United States. |
| 14 october | The Georgia Institute of Technology was established in Atlantaas part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in thepost-Civil War Southern United States. |
| 07 november | Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the firsttranscontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with the driving ofthe 'last spike' in Craigellachie, British Columbia. |
| 16 november | After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion,Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and 'Father ofManitoba', was executed by hanging for high treason. |
| 02 May | At the Berlin Conference, King Leopold II of Belgium established the independent State Congo. |
| 19 May | The German Chancellor Bispark captured the African countries of Cameroon and Tongoland. |
| 17 June | France's gift to the Statue of Liberty arrived at the port of New York. |
| 06 July | Louis Pasteur successfully tested rabies vaccine. This discovery brought a revolution in the medical world. |
| 05 September | The first gasoline pump was installed in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. |
| 29 September | The world's first passenger electric tram started in England. |
| 10 November | Gottlieb Demeler introduced the world's first motorcycle. |
| 26 November | The meteorite was photographed for the first time. |
| 28 December | The first session of the Indian National Congress took place in Bombay, in which 72 delegates attended. |
| 04 January | Dr. William made his first successful operation of appendix. |
| 06 January | Bharatendu Harishchandra, one of the Hindi poets and writers of modern India, died. |
| 28 February | The first session of the Indian National Congress took place in Bombay, in which 72 delegates attended. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 April | Wallace Beery / Actor / United States of America |
| 01 August | George de Hevesy / Academic / Germany |
| 03 April | Marie-Victorin Kirouac / Academic / Canada |
| 05 October | Arunachalam Mahadeva / Politician / Sri Lanka |
| 07 January | Edwin Swatek / Swimmer / United States of America |
| 11 January | Alice Paul / Activist / United States of America |
| 11 August | Stephen Butterworth / Engineer / United Kingdom |
| 11 November | George S. Patton / General / United States of America |
| 12 August | Keith Murdoch / Journalist / Australia |
| 13 September | Wilhelm Blaschke / Academic / Germany |
| 14 September | Vittorio Gui / Composer / Italy |
| 18 September | Uzeyir Hajibeyov / Composer / Azerbaijan |
| 21 January | Ernst Gustav Kühnert / Historian / Germany |
| 21 February | Sacha Guitry / Actor / France |
| 22 June | Milan Vidmar / Chess Player / Slovenia |
| 23 July | Georges V. Matchabelli / Business Man / United States of America |
| 23 March | Platt Adams / Politician / United States of America |
| 24 February | Chester W. Nimitz / Army Officer / United States of America |
| 26 November | Heinrich Brüning / Economist / Germany |
| 27 September | Charles Benjamin Howard / Politician / Canada |