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1885
"The Battle of Abu Klea" by William Barnes Wollen
In the battle of Abu Klea in Sudan , a British army defeats the supporters of Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad .
Daimler's riding car from 1885 (replica)
Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach designed the riding car , a forerunner of the motorcycle .
Inauguration of US President Grover Cleveland in 1885
Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States .
Delegate of the first Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is founded.
1885 in other calendars
Armenian calendar 1333/34 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar 1877/78 (September 10-11)
Baha'i calendar 41/42 (March 20/21)
Bengali solar calendar 1290/91 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar 2428/29 (southern Buddhism); 2427/28 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 76th (77th) cycle

Year of the Wood Rooster乙酉 ( at the beginning of the year Wood Monkey 甲申)

Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) 1247/48 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea) 4218/19 (October 2-3)
Iranian calendar 1263/64 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar 1302/03 (October 9/10)
Japanese calendar Meiji 18 ( 明治 18 年);

Kōki 2545

Jewish calendar 5645/46 (9/10 September)
Coptic calendar 1601/02 (September 10-11)
Malayalam calendar 1060/61
Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire) 1300/01 (March 1st)
Seleucid era Babylon: 2195/96 (turn of the year April)

Syria: 2196/97 (turn of the year October)

Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 1941/42 (April)

Events

Politics and world events

Africa

Territory of the GfdK and the coast of what will later become German East Africa, 1885

America

Oceania

Europe

Assassination attempt on the politician Estrup
Unification of Bulgaria and the Serbian-Bulgarian War

Asia

economy

World exhibition

Money economy

Patents

Starleys low wheel with chain drive

Business start-ups

miscellaneous

The hen egg and its contents

science and technology

Biology and medicine

Joseph Meister is vaccinated against rabies

Chemistry and physics

Meteorology and astronomy

traffic

The first Stoney Creek Bridge

Technical achievements

Home Insurance Building

Culture

Visual arts

The Potato Eaters , oil on canvas
  • April / May: Vincent van Gogh paints in Nuenen with oil on canvas The Potato Eaters . It is the artist's first major work on which he worked for several months. The subject exists in two versions.
Swimming, oil on canvas

literature

Title page of the German-language edition from 1885

Music and theater

Alexander Girardi in the world premiere as Kálmán Zsupán
Jules Massenet: Le Cid

society

religion

Christianity

Buddhism

nature and environment

Sports

Historical maps and views

City map of Bremen 1885

Born

January

February

March

April

May

Max Volmer, 1958

June

July

Ernst Bloch, 1954

August

September

October

Niels Bohr, 1922

November

Heinrich Brüning, around 1930

December

Exact date of birth unknown

Died

First quarter

Second quarter

Gustav Nachtigal
Victor Hugo, around 1875

Third quarter

Ulysses S. Grant in the 1870s
Self-portrait of Carl Spitzweg, around 1840

Fourth Quarter

John McCloskey
Alfonso XII from Spain

Exact date of death unknown

Web links

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