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Events on the year of 1885 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1885 Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones)
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02 Jan 1885 Gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum
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03 Jan 1885 Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
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04 Jan 1885 Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22)
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11 Jan 1885 Henrik Ibsen's "Vildauden" premieres in Oslo
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17 Jan 1885 A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
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17 Jan 1885 British beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan
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19 Jan 1885 Battle at Abu Klea Sudan 800-1000 killed
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25 Jan 1885 Vincent d'Indy's "Saugefleurie" premieres
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26 Jan 1885 Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum
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26 Jan 1885 Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
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05 Feb 1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
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05 Feb 1885 King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
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08 Feb 1885 The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
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09 Feb 1885 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
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12 Feb 1885 Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society
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17 Feb 1885 Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa
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18 Feb 1885 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
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18 Feb 1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published
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21 Feb 1885 The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
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21 Feb 1885 Washington Monument dedicated (Washington DC)
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23 Feb 1885 Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
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25 Feb 1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds
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26 Feb 1885 Congress of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England
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28 Feb 1885 The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
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02 Mar 1885 Sino-French War: French victory in the Battle of Hòa Mộc near Tuyên Quang, northern Vietnam.
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03 Mar 1885 1st US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission
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03 Mar 1885 American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
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03 Mar 1885 Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of Federal Government)
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03 Mar 1885 US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail
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03 Mar 1885 The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
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04 Mar 1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War
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12 Mar 1885 Tonkin Campaign: France captures the citadel of Bắc Ninh.
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14 Mar 1885 "Mikado" opera premieres in London
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14 Mar 1885 The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
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14 Mar 1885 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado" premieres in London
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15 Mar 1885 1st performance of C
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19 Mar 1885 Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
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19 Mar 1885 Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional government, Saskatchewan
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20 Mar 1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine
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20 Mar 1885 Yiddish theater opens in New York with Golldfaden operetta
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21 Mar 1885 2nd French government of Ferry resigns
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23 Mar 1885 Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
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24 Mar 1885 Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin–Guangxi border.
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26 Mar 1885 The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
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26 Mar 1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
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26 Mar 1885 Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Saskatchewan
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28 Mar 1885 US Salvation Army officially organized
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30 Mar 1885 The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
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31 Mar 1885 The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
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31 Mar 1885 Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
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02 Apr 1885 Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories, Canada, killing nine.
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03 Apr 1885 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
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24 Apr 1885 American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
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30 Apr 1885 Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
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30 Apr 1885 Boston Pops Orchestra forms
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01 May 1885 Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth
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01 May 1885 The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
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02 May 1885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
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02 May 1885 Congo Free State forms by King Leopold II of Belgium
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02 May 1885 The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.
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02 May 1885 Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
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02 May 1885 Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
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07 May 1885 John E W Thompson, named Minister to Haiti
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08 May 1885 Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, Engl
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12 May 1885 North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
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12 May 1885 Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada
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14 May 1885 11th Kentucky Derby: Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37
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15 May 1885 Canadian M
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19 May 1885 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
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19 May 1885 Jan Matzeliger begins 1st mass production of shoes
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19 May 1885 German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon & Togoland
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22 May 1885 Prior to burial in the Panthéon, the body of Victor Hugo was exposed under the Arc de Triomphe during the night.
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22 May 1885 13th Preakness: Jim McLaughlin aboard Tecumseh wins in 2:49
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03 Jun 1885 In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
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06 Jun 1885 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43
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09 Jun 1885 Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
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12 Jun 1885 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
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17 Jun 1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
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17 Jun 1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
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24 Jun 1885 British government of Salisbury forms
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24 Jun 1885 Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st US black Bishop
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01 Jul 1885 The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
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06 Jul 1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
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06 Jul 1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
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20 Jul 1885 The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
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07 Aug 1885 5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar
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08 Aug 1885 More than 1.5 million people attend the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant in New York City.
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10 Aug 1885 Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
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11 Aug 1885 $100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
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14 Aug 1885 Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
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29 Aug 1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
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29 Aug 1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
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29 Aug 1885 Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
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29 Aug 1885 Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
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30 Aug 1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
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02 Sep 1885 Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
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04 Sep 1885 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
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05 Sep 1885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)
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06 Sep 1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. Bulgarian unification is henceforth accomplished.
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11 Sep 1885 Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
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12 Sep 1885 Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.
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12 Sep 1885 Highest score (35) recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set
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16 Sep 1885 Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup
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21 Sep 1885 Dutch demonstrate for general voting right
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22 Sep 1885 Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
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24 Sep 1885 5 German warships depart to Zanzibar
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28 Sep 1885 Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
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29 Sep 1885 The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
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30 Sep 1885 Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate
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01 Oct 1885 Special delivery mail service begins in US
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13 Oct 1885 The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, United States.
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15 Oct 1885 Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of the season
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17 Oct 1885 Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season
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22 Oct 1885 John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Prof Base Ball Players, 1st baseball union
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01 Nov 1885 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei
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03 Nov 1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes and businesses
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06 Nov 1885 US mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close
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07 Nov 1885 Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie
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09 Nov 1885 Opera "Ermine, " premieres in London
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12 Nov 1885 Montreal and Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
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13 Nov 1885 Serbian army occupies Bulgaria
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23 Nov 1885 Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united
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26 Nov 1885 1st meteor photograph
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27 Nov 1885 Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made
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28 Nov 1885 Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
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29 Nov 1885 End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy
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30 Nov 1885 Opera "El Cid" premieres (Paris)
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30 Nov 1885 The opera "Le Cid" is produced (Paris)
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01 Dec 1885 First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas.
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02 Dec 1885 Opera "Regina di Saba, " premieres in Vienna
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07 Dec 1885 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
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17 Dec 1885 France declares Madagascar a protectorate
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22 Dec 1885 Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
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22 Dec 1885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
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28 Dec 1885 Indian National Congress, a political party of India is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.
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29 Dec 1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany)
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