1885

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1850s  1860s  1870s  – 1880s –  1890s  1900s  1910s
Years:	1882 1883 1884 – 1885 – 1886 1887 1888

1885 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1885 MDCCCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2638
Armenian calendar	1334 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	6635
Bahá'í calendar	41–42
Balinese saka calendar	1806–1807
Bengali calendar	1292
Berber calendar	2835
British Regnal year	48 Vict. 1 – 49 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2429
Burmese calendar	1247
Byzantine calendar	7393–7394
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4581 or 4521     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4582 or 4522
Coptic calendar	1601–1602
Discordian calendar	3051
Ethiopian calendar	1877–1878
Hebrew calendar	5645–5646
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1941–1942
- Shaka Samvat	1806–1807
- Kali Yuga	4985–4986
Holocene calendar	11885
Igbo calendar	885–886
Iranian calendar	1263–1264
Islamic calendar	1302–1303
Japanese calendar	Meiji 18 (明治１８年)
Javanese calendar	1814–1815
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4218
Minguo calendar	27 before ROC 民前27年
Nanakshahi calendar	417
Thai solar calendar	2427–2428
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

• Benz builds the first single-cylinder engine for car.
• John K Starley creates the first genuine bicycle, the Rover.
• John Boyd Dunlop invents the pneumatic tire.
• W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan's The Mikado
• The Times reports that "A lady well known in literary and scientific circles" has been cremated by the Cremation Society in Woking, Surrey. She is the first person to be officially cremated in the United Kingdom.
• Cholera epidemic in Spain – one of the victims is the king Alfonso XII.
• Third Burmese War begins.
• Clint Eastwood defeats Mad Dog Tannen.
• Sitting Bull joins Buffalo Bill.
• Randolph Churchill becomes a viceroy of India.
• Nikola Tesla sells a number of his patents to George Westinghouse.
• William Stanley, Jr. builds the first practical alternating current transformer device, the induction coil.
• Local anesthetic.
• First skyscraper – Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, USA (10 floors) is built.
• Bicycle Playing Cards are first produced.
• Grover Cleveland replaces Chester A. Arthur as President of the United States

Births

• January 8 – John Curtin, Australia's 14th Prime Minister
• September 17 – George Cleveland, Canadian actor

Deaths

• March 31 – Charlotte Brontë, British writer