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year 1885 |
Events
- January 24 – Irish rebels damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite.[1]
- January 26 – Mahdist War in Sudan: Troops loyal to Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad conquer Khartoum; British commander Charles George Gordon is killed.
- February 5 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State, as a personal possession.
- February 16 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index stood at a level of 62.76, and represented the dollar average of 14 stocks: 12 railroads and two leading American industries.[2]
- February 26 – The final act of the Berlin Conference regulates European colonization and trade, in the scramble for Africa.
- March 3 – A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.
- March 4 – Grover Cleveland is sworn in, as the 22nd President of the United States.
- Prussian deportations: The Prussian government, motivated by Otto von Bismarck, expels all ethnic Poles and Jews without German citizenship from Prussia.
- The North-West Rebellion in Canada by the Métis people, led by Louis Riel, begins with the Battle of Duck Lake.
- March 30 – The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident, which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
- March 31 – The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.[3]
- April 30 – A bill is signed in the New York State legislature, forming the Niagara Falls State Park.
- May 2 - The Congo Free State is established, by King Leopold II of Belgium.
- June 23 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- June 24 – Randolph Churchill becomes Secretary of State for India.
- July – Japan Berery, as predecessor name was Kirin Holdings was founded in Yokohama, Japan.
- July 6 – Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux successfully test their rabies vaccine. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
- August 29 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for the Daimler Reitwagen, regarded as the first motorcycle, which he has produced with Wilhelm Maybach.
- September 2 – The Rock Springs massacre occurs in Rock Springs, Wyoming; 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
- September 30 – A British force abolishes the Boer republic of Stellaland, and adds it to British Bechuanaland.
- November – The Third Anglo-Burmese War begins.
- November 7 – Canadian Pacific Railway: In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on a railway extending across Canada. Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald considers the project to be vital to Canada, due to the exponentially greater potential for military mobility.
- November 14–28 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Serbia declares war against Bulgaria, but is defeated in the Battle of Slivnitsa on November 17–19.
- November 16 – Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader of the Métis, is executed for high treason.
- December 28 – 72 Indian lawyers, academics and journalists gather in Bombay, to form the Congress Party.
Date unknown
- Karl Benz produces the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, regarded as the first automobile (patented and publicly launched the following year).[4]
- Butz Thermo-Electric Regulator, as predecessor of Honeywell, was founded in United States.
- BHP (Broken Hill Proprietary), a mining and natural gas product in worldwide, founded in New South Wales, Australia.
Events
Event | Start | End |
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Pax Brittanica | 1815 | 1915 |
Victorian era | 1840 | 1901 |
Berlin Conference | 15 November 1884 | 26 February 1885 |
New Groups
Group | Image | Type | Description |
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Arizona State University | ![]() | Public | Home of the McCain Institute |
Yonsei University | ![]() | Military ranks | Admission is widely regarded as determining one's career and social status in life |
University of Arizona | ![]() | Public Flagship Research university | University in Phoenix, Arizona with extensive space research |
South Dakota School of Mines | ![]() | PublicSpace-Grant | Mining and engineering school |
Bryn Mawr College | ![]() | A private women's liberal arts college | |
Dakota Wesleyan University | ![]() | Military ranks | Religious university in South Dakota, George McGovern alma mater |
American Economic Association | ![]() | ||
Georgia Institute of Technology | ![]() | Public Space grant | University in the U.S. state of Georgia with large scientific activity |
Births
Title | Born | Place of birth | Died | Summary | Description |
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Charles Seymour | 1 January 1885 | Connecticut New Haven | 11 August 1963 | Academic Historian | President of Yale University with deep state ties. |
William Wiseman | 1 February 1885 | 17 June 1962 | Spook Banker | ||
Samuel Dickstein | 5 February 1885 | Lithuania Russian Empire Vilna Governorate | 22 April 1954 | Judge | Chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization who became concerned about the possibility of German spooks entering the US. |
Julius Streicher | 12 February 1885 | Germany Bavaria Fleinhausen | 16 October 1946 | Activist Publisher Teacher | |
William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore | 11 April 1885 | 14 February 1964 | Politician Banker Deep state operative | UK banker in the Milner Group/Outer Circle | |
Campbell Stuart | 5 July 1885 | 14 September 1972 | Spook Propagandist Media mogul | ||
Andre Maurois | 26 July 1885 | 9 October 1967 | Author | French author who attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s | |
Keith Murdoch | 12 August 1885 | 4 October 1952 | Journalist Businessperson | ||
Joseph Ball | 1 September 1885 | 10 July 1961 | Spook Politician Lawyer Deep state operative Businessperson | British spook who forged the Zinoviev Letter to bring down the first British Labour Party government in 1924. "Ball also had a keen understanding of the dark arts of political manipulation, a readiness to use all means at his disposal and an ability to keep himself out of the limelight... he knew how to lie and how to keep a secret." | |
Andrew Thorne | 20 September 1885 | 25 September 1970 | Military | British general who helped establish post-war deep state in Norway. | |
Ben Chifley | 22 September 1885 | New South Wales Bathurst | 13 June 1951 | Politician | |
Harold Stanley | 2 October 1885 | Massachusetts Great Barrington | 14 May 1963 | Banker | One of the founders of Morgan Stanley |
Ezra Pound | 30 October 1885 | US | 1 November 1972 | Poet Revisionism | |
Tomoyuki Yamashita | 8 November 1885 | Japan Ōtoyo | 23 February 1946 | Soldier | Japanese general of "Yamashita's Gold" fame. |
George Patton | 11 November 1885 | United States California San Gabriel | 21 December 1945 | Soldier | US general who died in a car crash. Officially, an accident. |
References
- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 310–311
- ↑ http://articles.philly.com/1995-02-24/news/25702996_1_blue-chip-stocks-industrial-shares-index Dow Record Book Adds Another First
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180412145903/https://www.wdl.org/en/item/2525/
- ↑ Benz, Carl Friedrich (1925). Lebensfahrt eines deutschen erfinders; erinnerungen eines achtzigjahrigen. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang.