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.

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

In 1885, at the moment when the Amir was in conference with the British viceroy, Lord Dufferin, in India, the news came of a skirmish between Russian and Afghan troops at Panjdeh, over a disputed point in the demarcation of the northwestern frontier of Afghanistan.

From the mid-century there were increasing calls for Home Rule for Scotland and when the Conservative Lord Salisbury became prime minister in 1885 he responded to pressure by reviving the post of Secretary of State for Scotland, which had been in abeyance since 1746.

Lord Aberdare, who in 1885 was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, presided over several Royal Commissions at different times.

In a letter to Lord Acton on 11 February 1885, Gladstone criticised Tory Democracy as " demagogism " that " put down pacific, law-respecting, economic elements that ennobled the old Conservatism " but " still, in secret, as obstinately attached as ever to the evil principle of class interests ".

Gladstone's conversion to a policy of Home Rule in late 1885 ( the " Hawarden Kite ") resulted in the fall of Lord Salisbury's Government.

Laforgue put three of the " complaints " of his first published volume of poems ( 1885 ) into " Lord " Pierrot's mouth — and dedicated his next book, The Imitation of Our Lady the Moon ( 1886 ), completely to Pierrot and his world.

At the time, Chamberlain was notable for his attacks on the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury, and in the 1885 general election he proposed the " Unauthorised Programme " of benefits for newly enfranchised agricultural labourers.

The Third Reform Act of 1884 was followed by a Redistribution Act in 1885, negotiated by Gladstone and Lord Salisbury.

The existence of these waves was predicted by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, in 1885.

In 1885, Lord Salisbury appointed Balfour as President of the Local Government Board ; the following year he became Secretary for Scotland, with a seat in the cabinet.

Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ; Poet Laureate from 1850 ) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom.

Parnell at first supported a Conservative government-they were still the smaller party after the elections-but after renewed agrarian distress arose when agricultural prices fell and unrest developed during 1885, Lord Salisbury ’ s Conservative government announced coercion measures in January 1886.

Curzon became Assistant Private Secretary to Lord Salisbury in 1885, and in 1886 entered Parliament as Member for Southport in south-west Lancashire.

But see also Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George II ( London, 1845 ); Lord Stanhope's History of England ( London, 1858 ); Lecky's History of England ( 1885 ); and ED Adams, The Influence of Grenville on Pitt's Foreign Policy ( Washington, 1904 ).

* The Lord Carlingford ( 1881 – 1885 )

The office he heads was known as the Lord Chancellor's Office between 1885 and 1971 and the Lord Chancellor's Department between 1971 and 2003.

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.

* The Lord Wolverton 1880 – 1885

He was military secretary to Lord Lansdowne during Lansdowne's governor-generalship of Canada from 1883 to 1885, and lived in Canada with his wife, Mary Caroline Grey, sister of Lord Grey, Governor General from 1904 to 1911, whom he had married in Britain on 28 July 1883.

Lord Melgund in 1885, as Middleton's chief of staff

* Library of Lord Acton, Catholic historian and Regius Professor of Modern History in 1885 – 1902.