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.

The brewery won six gold medals in open competitions in Europe at exhibitions in Amsterdam ( 1883 ), Paris ( 1884, 1887 ), Antwerp and two in London ( 1885 ).

The building is the original home of the Weisbrod and Hess brewery and was built in 1885.

Melbourne ’ s first cable tram service on 11 November 1885

In Australia, it was first seen on 9 May 1885 at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, produced by J. C. Williamson.

Since the club's inception in 1885, it has been based at the Richmond Cricket Ground ( better known as the Punt Road Oval ), just a few hundred metres to the east of the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ).

Image: Collingwood town hall 1. jpg | Collingwood Town Hall ( 1885 ), Melbourne, Australia, George R Johnson, architect

Murdoch was born in Melbourne in 1885, the son of Annie ( née Brown ) and the Rev.

* 1885 – First cable tram line opens in the Melbourne cable tramway system

The Prince Henry's Hospital ( originally called the Melbourne Homoeopathic Hospital ) was opened in St Kilda Road in 1885, and existed until 1991.

In 1885, Henry Sutton developed a Telephane for closed circuit transmission of pictures via telegraph wires, based on the Nipkow spinning disk system, so that the Melbourne Cup could be seen in Ballarat.

The first cable tram line opened by the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company was from Bourke Street to Hawthorn Bridge along Spencer Street, Flinders Street, Wellington Parade and Bridge Road opened on 11 November 1885.

Morris in 1885 reminded listeners to his lecture that London was no more difficult to reach from Melbourne in 1885 than it was to reach from Orkney Island after the Act of Union in 1707.

* Morris, Edward E .; Imperial federation: a Lecture for the Victorian Branch of the Imperial Federation League 28 Aug 1885, Melbourne

William Dartnell was born on 6 April 1885 at Collingwood, Melbourne, to Henry Dartnell, an English-born fruiterer, and his Australian wife Rose Ann, née Hanley.

During a visit to Australia in 1885, Sala coined the phrase " Marvellous Melbourne " to describe the booming city of Melbourne, a phrase which stuck with the locals and is still used to this day.

* Old Pathology Building, Melbourne University ( 1885 )

The House distinguished itself at the national exhibitions and world fairs that began to be organized from the second half of the 19th century onwards, in Paris ( 1878 and 1889 ), Melbourne ( 1890 and 1895 ), Zurich and Amsterdam ( 1883 ), London ( 1885 and 1890 ) and Chicago ( 1893 ), winning ten Grand Prix awards and seven gold medals.

The Melbourne cable tramway system was a cable car public transportation system operated from 1885 to 1940 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The network in Melbourne was built by local Tramway trusts composed of local councils and municipalities, and was operated by the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company from 1885 to 1916 ( with the exception of the Northcote tramway, which was privately built and operated ), after which the service was transferred to the Victorian Government, and passed to the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board on 1 November 1919 ( the Northcote tramway was transferred to the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board on 20 February 1920 ).

Although the first electric tram was introduced in 1885 at Doncaster and ran for 11 years, the electric tram network did not seriously commence until 1906 when the Victorian Railways built an " Electric Street Railway " from St Kilda railway station to Brighton, and the North Melbourne Electric Tramway and Lighting Company ( NMETL ) built a feeder line from the terminus of the cable system out towards Essendon.