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[Jolldo87]

1876

 

[Jolldo87]

1877

 

[Equus]

1878

 

[Jolldo87]

1879

 

[_Wang_]

1880

 

[Jolldo87]

1881

 

[T4P]

1883.1982736162 - bored

 

[Jolldo87]

1883

 

[T4P]

lol my bad 1884 now i cant count

 

[Tigerrific]

Events of 1885

[edit] January - March

• Chile's Matrimony and Civil Registry laws come into effect.
• January 4 - The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
• January 20 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
• January 26 - Troops loyal to the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad conquer Khartoum
• February 5 - King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal possession.
• February 7 - The play La vida alegre y muerte triste by dramatist José Echegaray opens.
• February 9 - The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
• February 21 - US president Chester A. Arthur dedicates the Washington Monument
• February 23 - British executioner fails to hang John 'Babbacombe' Lee, sentenced for the murder of Emma Keyse. Sentence is commuted to life imprisonment
• February 26 - Final Act of the Berlin Conference regulates European colonization and trade in Africa.
• February 28 - The month concludes without having a full moon.
• March-May - North-West Rebellion took place and was put down in Canada.
• 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 replaces Chester A. Arthur as President of the United States.
• March 14 - W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's The Mikado opens at the Savoy Theatre.
• March 26 -
  • The Times reports that "A lady well-known in literary and scientific circles" has been cremated by the Cremation Society in Woking, Surrey. Jeannette C. Pickersgill was the first person to be officially cremated in the United Kingdom
  • The Prussian government motivated by Otto von Bismarck orders to expel from Prussia all ethnic Poles and Jews without German citizenship. Thus the Prussian deportations are initiated.
• 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 a protectorate over Bechuanaland.

[edit] April - June

• April 3 - Gottlieb Daimler was granted a German patent for his 1-cylinder water-cooled engine design
• April 30 - A bill is signed in the New York State legislature forming the Niagara Falls State Park
• May 2
  • Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
  • Cree and Assiniboine warriors won the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
  • The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.
• May 9–May 12 - Canadian government forces inflict decisive defeat on Métis rebels at the Battle of Batoche.
• June 17 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• June 24 - Randolph Churchill becomes Secretary of State for India

[edit] July - September

• July 6 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• July 14 - Sarah E. Goode is the first female African-American to apply for and receive a patent, for the invention of the hideaway bed.
• July 15 - The Reservation at Niagara Falls opens, enabling access to all for free. Thomas V. Welch is the first Superintendent of the Park.
• July 20 - Professional football (soccer) is legalized in Britain.
• July 28 - Louis Riel's trial for treason begins in Regina.
• September 2 - The Rock Springs Massacre occurred in Rock Springs, Wyoming; 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
• September 6 - Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
• September 8 - Saint Thomas Academy is founded.
• September 15 - Train wreck of P.T. Barnum circus kills giant elephant Jumbo.
• September 18 - Union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria proclaimed at Plovdiv.
• September 30 - A British force abolishes the Boer republic of Stellaland and adds it to British Bechuanaland.

[edit] October - December

• October 13 - Georgia Institute of Technology is established in Atlanta, Georgia as the Georgia School of Technology.
• November - Third Burmese War begins.
• November 7 - Canadian Pacific Railway finished - Finally: In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on a railway extending across Canada. Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald considered the project to be vital to Canada due to the exponentially greater potential for military mobility.
• November 14-November 28 - Serbo-Bulgarian War: Serbia declares war against Bulgaria but is defeated in Battle of Slivnitsa on November 17-November 19.
• November 16 - Canadian rebel leader of the Métis, Louis Riel is executed for high treason.
• December 1 - The US Patent Office acknowledges this date as the day Dr Pepper was served for the very first time; the exact date of Dr Pepper's invention is unknown.
• December 28 - 72 Indian lawyers, academics and journalists gather in Bombay to form the Congress Party

[edit] Undated

• Creation of the first genuine safety bicycle, the Rover, by the nephew of James Starley of Coventry Company; John K Starley.
• Cholera outbreak in Spain.
• Seattle and Tacoma raids on Asians.
• Nikola Tesla sells a number of his patents to George Westinghouse.
• Luton Town F.C Created by the merger of Luton Wanderers and Luton Excelsior.
• First skyscraper - Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, USA (10 floors).
• Bicycle Playing Cards first produced.
• SSAFA Forces Help (British charity) is established.
• Camp Dudley, the oldest continually running boys' camp in America, is founded.
• John Ormsby publishes his new English translation of Don Quixote, acclaimed as the most scholarly made up to that time. It will remain in print through the twentieth century. It is the first English translation of the novel to be printed on the Internet.
• Michigan Technological University (originally Michigan Mining School) opens its doors for the first time in what is now the Houghton County Fire Hall.

 

[Jolldo87]

1886 - ^^^ that post is way too good/intelligent/informative for this thread

 

[Vonsche]

1887

 

[Jolldo87]

1888

 

[tigers_of_old_08]

1889

 

[Jolldo87]

1890

 

[Equus]

1891

 

[Equus]

1892

 

[kainokaino]

1893

 

[UpTheGuts]

1894

 

[Jolldo87]

1895

 

[Tiger67]

1896

 

[Tiger67]

1897

 

[Tiger67]

1898

 

[Tiger67]

1899

 

[Tiger67]

1900
Here I was planning to be the one that typed 2000 and I was out by 100
God it was a hard day at work!!!