1885

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Karl Benz produces the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, regarded as the first automobile
year 1885

Events

• January 24 – Irish rebels damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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	Description
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901
Berlin Conference	15 November 1884	26 February 1885	1880s conference to regulate European colonization and trade in Africa

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Georgia Institute of Technology		Public Space grant	University in the U.S. state of Georgia with large scientific activity
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

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Charles Seymour	1 January 1885	Connecticut New Haven	11 August 1963	Academic Historian	President of Yale University with deep state ties.
DeWitt Clinton Poole	1885		1952	Spook
William Wiseman	1 February 1885		17 June 1962	Spook Banker
Samuel Dickstein	5 February 1885	Lithuania Vilna Governorate Russia/Tsarist Russia	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 Teacher Media executive
William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore	11 April 1885		14 February 1964	Politician Banker Deep state operative	UK banker in the Milner Group/Outer Circle
Matsutarō Shōriki	11 April 1885		9 October 1969	Police officer Media mogul Deep state actor Asset Judo master	Japanese media mogul and politician. Investigated for war crimes and imprisoned in the same cell as yakuza boss Yoshio Kodama, his friend Ryōichi Sasakawa, a preeminent fascist political fixer, and Nobusuke Kishi, the future key man of the Liberal Democratic Party, Shoriki was released without trial in 1947, and not long after began his covert career as an informant and propaganda agent for the CIA.
Campbell Stuart	5 July 1885		14 September 1972	Spook Propagandist Media mogul
Andre Maurois	26 July 1885		9 October 1967	Author	French author very friendly to the US and UK 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.

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