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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1885 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1885
MDCCCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita2638
Armenian calendar1334
ԹՎ ՌՅԼԴ
Assyrian calendar6635
Baháʼí calendar41–42
Balinese saka calendar1806–1807
Bengali calendar1292
Berber calendar2835
British Regnal year48 Vict. 1 – 49 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2429
Burmese calendar1247
Byzantine calendar7393–7394
Chinese calendar甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4582 or 4375
    — to —
乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
4583 or 4376
Coptic calendar1601–1602
Discordian calendar3051
Ethiopian calendar1877–1878
Hebrew calendar5645–5646
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1941–1942
 - Shaka Samvat1806–1807
 - Kali Yuga4985–4986
Holocene calendar11885
Igbo calendar885–886
Iranian calendar1263–1264
Islamic calendar1302–1303
Japanese calendarMeiji 18
(明治18年)
Javanese calendar1814–1815
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4218
Minguo calendar27 before ROC
民前27年
Nanakshahi calendar417
Thai solar calendar2427–2428
Tibetan calendar阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
2011 or 1630 or 858
    — to —
阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
2012 or 1631 or 859

1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1885th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 885th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1885, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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January–March

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Feb. 21: Washington Monument dedicated.

April–June

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July–September

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The Reitwagen (riding car), the first internal combustion motorcycle (1885)

October–December

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Date unknown

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The Benz Patent-Motorwagen, built in 1885

Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December · Date unknown

January

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John Curtin
Claude Fuess

February

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Bess Truman

March

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April

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Clementine Churchill

May

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Otto Klemperer

June

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July

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August

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D H Lawrence

September

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Ben Chifley

October

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Niels Bohr

November

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George S. Patton
Heinrich Brüning

December

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Date unknown

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Deaths

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January–June

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Victor Hugo

July–December

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Ulysses S. Grant

Date unknown

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In fiction

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References

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  6. ^ "Cremation". The Times. No. 31405. London. March 27, 1885. p. 10.
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  21. ^ "Ezen a napon született Kürschner Izidor, a kiváló játékos és világjáró edző, akinek Brazíliában szobrot állítottak". www.mtkbudapest.hu.
  22. ^ John Worthen (July 31, 1992). D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence. Cambridge University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-521-43772-1.
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Further reading

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  • "Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1885". Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year. 25. New York: D. Appleton and Co.: 42 v. 1887. hdl:2027/hvd.hb0r95.