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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 | Description |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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. |
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 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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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.