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1885 and British
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.
After appeals by the Batswana leaders Khama III, Bathoen and Sebele for assistance, the British Government on 31 March 1885 put " Bechuanaland " under its protection.
* 1885 – Indian National Congress a political party of India is founded in Bombay, British India.
Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.
In 1885 the island became the capital of the British Windward Islands.
In 1885, after Barbados left the British Windward Islands, the capital of the colonial confederation was moved from Bridgetown to St. George on Grenada.
Eventually effective political organisation for working people was achieved through the trades unions who, after the extensions of the franchise in 1867 and 1885, began to support socialist political parties that later merged to became the British Labour Party.
* 1885 – A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
Imperial Germany set up a protectorate over the Sultan of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of Sir William Mackinnon's British East Africa Company ( BEAC ) in 1888, after the company had received a royal charter and concessionary rights to the Kenya coast from the Sultan of Zanzibar for a 50-year period.
His father, Karamchand Gandhi ( 1822 – 1885 ), who belonged to the Hindu Modh community, served as the diwan ( a high official ) of Porbander state, a small princely state in the Kathiawar Agency of British India.
* 1885 – The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
Burma was ruled as a British colony from 1885 until 1948.
* 1885In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway extending across Canada.
* 1885 – Eva Morris, British supercentenarian ( d. 2000 )
Beginning with Sir John A. Macdonald's National Policy ( 1879 ) and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway ( 1875 – 1885 ) through Northern Ontario and the Canadian Prairies to British Columbia, Ontario manufacturing and industry flourished.
Kerepunu villagers, British New Guinea, 1885
James was influential in the founding of the American Society for Psychical Research ( ASPR ) in New York City in 1885, three years after the British Society for Psychical Research ( SPR ) was inaugurated in London, leading to systematic, critical investigation of paranormal phenomena.
His middle name, Gordon, was given to him in honour and memory of Charles George Gordon, a British army officer killed in Khartoum in 1885.
* October 12 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, British educational psychologist and psychoanalyst ( b. 1885 )
* April 21 – Sir Frederick Handley Page, British aircraft manufacturer ( b. 1885 )
* January 12 – John Tovey, British admiral of the fleet ( b. 1885 )
* January 1 – Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift, after the country is annexed into British India in November 1885.
The beginning of Nepalese immigration largely coincided with Bhutan's political development: in 1885, Druk Gyalpo Ugyen Wangchuck consolidated power after a period of civil unrest and cultivated closer ties with the British in India.
From 1800 until 1885, Barbados then served as the main seat of Government for the former British colonies of the Windward Islands.

1885 and claims
One of the earliest claims comes from Charlie Nagreen, when in 1885, sold a meatball between two slices of bread at the Seymour Fair now called the
The British accepts in the Berlin Treaty the claims of France to exert its influence on Madagascar and a treaty of alliance between France and Malagasy was signed in December 17, 1885 by Queen Ranavalona III.
* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )
By 1885 there were more than 250 individual claims in operation.
Between 1880 and 1885 the courts were clogged with a large number of cases, many of them about land claims and properties.
Between the years 1885 and 1897, Léo Taxil maintained a hoax against both Freemasonry and the Roman Catholic Church, by making increasingly outlandish claims regarding Freemasonry.
In response to Couch's claims that the federal government was discriminating against them, on March 3, 1885, Congress approved the Indian Appropriations Act of 1885.
In 1885, the legality of Austin's Spanish property claims were settled posthumously by the Supreme Court in Bryan v. Kennett.
From 1880 to 1885 he sat as a judge of the Supreme Court of Cape Colony ; and he was British commissioner on the Anglo-German commission in 1884-1885 for settling the claims of British subjects at Angra Pequeña ( German: Lüderitzbucht ) and other parts of the south-west coast.
For two years he traveled in Europe, and after two years in Philadelphia he went to Washington, DC, where he was lecturer on criminal law ( 1885 – 1886 ) and then professor of criminal law ( 1886 – 1888 ) at Columbian ( now George Washington ) University ; in 1885-1888 he was solicitor ( or examiner of claims ) of the Department of State, and from 1888 until his death was employed on an edition ( authorized by Congress ) of the Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States ( 6 vols, 1889, ed.
In 1873 the Northern Pacific Railway Company made a preliminary survey through the Lake Samish valley on the way to Bellingham Bay and Hudson Bay Company trappers had also probably been through the area before that but the first Europeans to settle at Lake Samish were Charlie Barns and William Harris, who staked claims to 160 acres each in March / April 1885, Barns on the east side and Harris on the west side of the lake.
In spite of that, in 1906 and 1920 the United States formally reminded Great Britain that Sabah did not belong to them and was still part of the Sultanate of Sulu on the premise that Spain never acquired sovereignty over North Borneo Madrid Protocol to transfer all its claims of sovereignty over North Borneo to Great Britain on the Madrid Protocol of 1885.

1885 and West
* 1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
Between 1884 and 1885, European nations met at the Berlin West Africa Conference to discuss the partitioning of Africa.
* 1829 – Charles S. West, American jurist and politician ( d. 1885 )
* August 3 – Bee Ho Gray, Native American Wild West star, silent film actor and vaudeville performer ( b. 1885 )
From 1885 to 1890 Berlin's population grew by 20 %, Brandenburg and the Rhineland gained 8. 5 %, Westphalia 10 %, while East Prussia lost 0. 07 % and West Prussia 0. 86 %.
In 1885 an intellectual, Yukichi Fukuzawa, wrote the influential essay Leaving Asia, arguing that Japan should orient itself at the " civilized countries of the West ", leaving behind the " hopelessly backward " Asian neighbors, namely Korea and China.
** West Clare ( UK Parliament constituency ) ( 1885 – 1922 )
In 1885, the Tampa Board of Trade enticed Vicente Martinez Ybor to move his cigar manufacturing operations to Tampa from Key West.
Rail transportation began to slowly replace the river's prominence as a mode of transportation as the Chesapeake & Ohio ( C & O ) railroad began construction of a bridge across the Big Sandy River linking Catlettsburg with Kenova, West Virginia in 1885.
Morehouse laid out lots to the north of the Rock Creek water stop and platted a village to be known as Rock Creek, as filed in the county seat of West Point on May 26, 1885.
Portions of the township have been taken to form Anglesea Borough ( on June 13, 1885 ; now North Wildwood City ), Avalon Borough ( April 18, 1892 ), Wildwood ( May 1, 1895 ), Stone Harbor Borough ( April 3, 1914 ) and West Wildwood ( April 21, 1920 ).
Hebron was founded in 1885 and named after the West Bank city of Hebron.
The March 28, 1885, the Daily Local News described West Grove as " one of the most flourishing villages in this county " and stated that " it contains some three flouring mills and the largest nursery for rose culture below in the United States ( Dinger & Conrad, Co .), a large casket factory ( Paxson Comfort ) and a large number of dwellings.
" In May 1885, the Chester County Democrat reported that thirty new homes were under construction in the village of West Grove.
Joseph Pyle constructed many of the commercial buildings along the present-day Exchange Place, including the Roselyn Theater Building in 1867 ( torn down in 1980 ), the National Bank of West Grove building in 1883 and the K & P Building in 1885.
Furthermore, Pyle introduced the manufacture of brick, planned and installed the first public water system, was President of the West Grove Improvement Company which financed the construction of the casket factory in 1885, served on Borough Council and was Burgess ( Mayor ) from 1900-1903.
The site was founded in 1885 for a station for the Houston, East and West Texas Railway.
Timpson was founded in 1885 upon the arrival of the Houston, East and West Texas Railway.
In 1885, the Glenville Crescent first published Ellen King ’ s poem, ‘‘ The West Virginia Hills ,’’ which later became the official state song.
Organised Australian rules football was first played in Fremantle in the early 1880s with the Fremantle Football Club, a founding member of the West Australian Football Association in 1885.
Between 1885 and 1914, Britain brought nearly 30 % of Africa's population under its control, to 15 % for France, 9 % for Germany, 7 % for Belgium and 1 % for Italy: Nigeria alone contributed 15 million subjects to Britain, more than in the whole of French West Africa, or the entire German colonial empire.
Before 1885 West Norwood was known as Lower Norwood, in contrast to Upper Norwood and South Norwood.
In 1885, he reorganized the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad, leasing it to the New York Central.
He was adjutant general in the provisional Métis government declared in the District of Saskatchewan in 1885, and commanded the Métis forces in the North-West Rebellion or North West Resistance of 1885.

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