События 1884-1885 годов: Хроника мира

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July – Japan Brewery, predecessor of Kirin Holdings is 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. July 14 – Sarah E. Goode is the first African American woman 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 16 – BHP (Broken Hill Proprietary), a worldwide mining and natural gas producer is founded in New South Wales, Australia. July 20 – The Football Association recognises professional players in England. July 28 – Louis Riel's trial for treason begins in Regina. August 19 – S Andromedae, the only supernova seen in the Andromeda Galaxy so far by astronomers, and the first ever noted outside the Milky Way, is discovered. 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 6 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, completing the unification of Bulgaria. September 8 – Saint Thomas Academy is founded in Minnesota. September 12 – Arbroath FC defeats Bon Accord FC, 36 0, in the highest score ever in professional football. September 15 – A train wreck of the P. T. Barnum Circus kills giant elephant Jumbo, at St. Thomas, Ontario. September 18 – The union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria is proclaimed at Plovdiv. September 30 – A British force abolishes the Boer republic of Stellaland, and adds it to British Bechuanaland.

October 3 – Millwall F. C. is founded by workers on the Isle of Dogs in London, as Millwall Rovers. October 12 – The city of Fresno, California, is incorporated. October 13 – The Georgia Institute of Technology is established in Atlanta as the Georgia School of Technology. October 25 – Symphony No. 4 (Brahms) is premiered in Meiningen, Germany, with Johannes Brahms himself conducting it. 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 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 1 – The U. S. Patent Office acknowledges this date as the day Dr Pepper is served for the 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.

Karl Benz produces the Benz Patent Motorwagen, regarded as the first automobile (patented and publicly launched the following year). John Kemp Starley demonstrates the Rover safety bicycle, regarded as the first practical modern bicycle. The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney, is completed. With ten floors and a fireproof weight bearing metal frame, it is regarded as the first skyscraper. Bicycle Playing Cards are first produced. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association is established in the United Kingdom, to provide charitable assistance. Camp Dudley, the oldest continually running boys' camp in the United States, 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 20th century. Michigan Technological University (originally Michigan Mining School) opens its doors for the first time, in the future Houghton County Fire Hall. Chuo Law College, as predecessor of Chuo University, founded in Kanda, Tokyo, Japan. Before November 1 – More than 24,000 Christians killed, 225 churches burnt, seventeen orphanages and ten convents destroyed in Cochinchina, now known as Vietnam.

March 6 – Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
March 7 – John Tovey, British admiral of the fleet (d. 1971)
March 11 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land, water racer (d. 1948)
March 14 – Raoul Lufbery, French born American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
March 23 – Mollie McNutt, Australian poet (d. 1919)
March 27 – Julio Lozano Díaz, President of Honduras (d. 1957)
March 31 – Jules Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)

August 1 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)

October 3 – Sophie Treadwell, American playwright, journalist (d. 1970)
October 7 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
October 11 – François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
October 19 – Charles E. Merrill, American banker, co founder of Merrill Lynch (d. 1956)
October 24 – Rachel Katznelson Shazar, Zionist political figure, wife of third President of Israel (d. 1975)
October 28 – Per Albin Hansson, 2 time prime minister of Sweden (d. 1946)
October 30 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)

Geza von Hoffmann, Austrian Hungarian eugenicist and writer (d. 1921)
Alessandro Tonini, Italian aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer and manufacturer (d. 1932)

January 11 – Mariano Ospina Rodríguez, President of Colombia (b. 1805)
January 13 – Schuyler Colfax, 17th Vice President of the United States (b. 1823)
January 26 – Charles "Chinese" Gordon, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1833)
February 1 – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, British inventor (b. 1850)
February 7 – Iwasaki Yataro, Japanese industrialist, Founder of Mitsubishi (b. 1835)
February 8 – Nikolai Severtzov, Russian explorer, naturalist (b. 1827)
February 19 – José María Pinedo, Argentinian naval commander (b. 1795)
March 12 – Próspero Fernández Oreamuno, President of Costa Rica (b. 1834)
March 13 – Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician (b. 1795)
March 22 – Sir Harry Smith Parkes, British diplomat (b. 1828)
April 2 – Justo Rufino Barrios, Central American leader (b. 1835)
April 6 – Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein, Prussian general (b. 1797)
April 25 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (b. 1836)
May 2 – Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian Slovene author (b. 1817)
May 4 – Irvin McDowell, American general (b. 1818)
May 17 – Jonathan Young, United States Navy commodore (b. 1826)
May 19 – Robert Emmet Odlum, American swimming instructor (died as result of becoming the first person to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge) (b. 1851)
May 20 – Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, 29th United States Secretary of State (b. 1817)
May 22 – Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)
June 11 – Amédée Courbet, French admiral (b. 1827)
June 17 – Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, German field marshal (b. 1809)
June 22 – Muhammad Ahmad, Sudanese Mahdi (b. 1844)

Eugenia Kisimova, Bulgarian feminist, philanthropist and women's rights activist (b. 1831)

September 2–September 7 – The film Back to the Future Part III takes place during this time. Dr. Emmett Brown is initially murdered by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen in Hill Valley, California (1885); however, Marty McFly later prevents this murder. The stage "Bury My Shell at Wounded Knee", in the 1992 video game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, is set in this year. The Nickelodeon TV movie, Lost in the West, takes place in this year. The plot of An American Tail is set in this period.