Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

* Atlas ( 1863 – 1885 ), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1885 – Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator ( d. 1960 )

* 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

* 1885 – Edna Ferber, American novelist ( d. 1968 )

* 1885 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist ( d. 1959 )

* 1885 – Édouard Fabre, Canadian runner ( d. 1939 )

During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.

There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain ( 1874 – 1885 ).

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

* Alfonso XII of Spain-( 1857 – 1885 ) ( ordinal numbering continues from the kings of Castile )

* 1885 – Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories, Canada, killing 9.

* 1885 – Vance Palmer, Australian author ( d. 1959 )

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen

* 1885 – Karen Blixen ( Isak Dinesen ), Danish author ( d. 1962 )

* 1885 – Carl Goßler, German rower ( d. 1914 )

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.

Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935 ) was an Austrian composer.

** Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States ( b. 1885 )

Another descendant of Heyward was DuBose Heyward ( 1885 – 1940 ), a poet, novelist and playwright who influenced the Southern Renaissance and is most well known for the 1925 novel and 1927 play Porgy, and the libretto to the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin and based on the play.

Bess Truman's maternal grandfather, George Porterfield Gates, built the house over a period of years from 1867 to 1885.

Charles Griffith Ross ( November 9, 1885 – December 5, 1950 ), was a White House Press Secretary between 1945 and 1950 for Harry S. Truman.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

* 1885 – First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas ( United States ).

The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.

* 1885: First permanent city-wide electrical tram system in Europe ( Sarajevo ).

Métis and First Nation prisoners following the rebellion, August 1885.

In the spring of 2008, Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Christine Tell proclaimed in Duck Lake, that " the 125th commemoration, in 2010, of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion is an excellent opportunity to tell the story of the prairie Métis and First Nations peoples ' struggle with Government forces and how it has shaped Canada today.

First Prescott Courthouse, circa 1885

First settled in 1753, the area was part of Wilkins Township until 1885, when Braddock Township was incorporated.

The first religious services were held in Adams County in Ritzville in April 1882 at the McKay Home and the First Congregational Church was soon organized, a church would be built in 1885.

* Germany's First Bid for Colonies 1884 – 1885: a Move in Bismarck's European Policy, 1938.

The " Voltaire " was at the Academy of 1883 ; it was followed, in 1884, by the " Marriage de convenance ", perhaps the most popular of all Orchardson's pictures ; in 1885, by " The Salon of Madame Récamier "; in 1886, by " After ", the sequel to the " Marriage de convenance ", and " A Tender Chord ", one of his most exquisite productions ; in 1887, by " The First Cloud "; in 1888, by " Her Mother's Voice "; and in 1889, by " The Young Duke ", a canvas on which he returned to much the same pictorial scheme as that of the " Voltaire ".

This force was originally under the command of General Jose Guillermo Carbo ( 1841 – 1885 ), who had been appointed in 1881 as Commander of the First Military Zone comprising Sonora, Baja California, Sinaloa, and Tepic ( Diccionario Porrúa, 1970 ).

* Nero ( 1885 ), an historical tragedy ; called The First Part of Nero subsequent to the publication of Nero: Part II

Mrs. O ' Shea acted as liaison in 1885 with Gladstone during proposals for the First Home Rule Bill.

* Thomas Clark Durant ( 1820 – 1885 ), key figure in building the First Transcontinental Railroad

First published 1885 by Robert Clarke & Co.

Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the British novelist, Cecil William Mercer ( 7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960 ), whose novels and short stories, some humorous ( the Berry books ), some thrillers ( the Chandos books ), were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period between the First and Second world wars.

Germany's First Bid For Colonies, 1884 – 1885: A Move in Bismarck's European Policy ( New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. – the Norton Library, 1970 ), p. 17 – 31: Chapter 1.

Much of this list overlaps with the list of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, but there are some notable differences, principally concerning the Marquess of Salisbury, who was Prime Minister but not First Lord 1885 – 86, 1887 – 92 and 1895 – 1902.

Prior to devolution the comparable functions of the First Minister were exercised by the Secretary of State for Scotland, who headed the Scottish Office, which was a department of the wider United Kingdom Government and existed from 1885 to 1999.