The Triumph of Titus, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ( 1885 ), depicting the Flavian family during the triumphal procession of 71.

* Heath, Sir Thomas, Diophantos of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1885, 1910.

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.

The first self-powered machine gun was invented in 1885 by Sir Hiram Maxim.

In 1885, British claims to a West African sphere of influence received international recognition ; and in the following year, the Royal Niger Company was chartered under the leadership of Sir George Taubman Goldie.

* 1885 – Monsignor Sir Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop ( d. 1984 )

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.

It was during this period that he started writing poetry, and, in 1885, Yeats ' first poems, as well as an essay entitled " The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson ", were published in the Dublin University Review.

* January 22 – Sir Count Michael Gonzi, Archbishop of Malta and past politician ( b. 1885 )

* December 31 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land and water racer ( b. 1885 )

* April 21 – Sir Frederick Handley Page, British aircraft manufacturer ( b. 1885 )

Unabridged and unexpurgated translations were made, first by John Payne, under the title The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night ( 1882, nine volumes ), and then by Sir Richard Francis Burton, entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night ( 1885, ten volumes ) – the latter was, according to some assessments, partially based on the former, leading to charges of plagiarism.

* 1885 – 1888 – Sir Richard Francis Burton publishes an English translation from several sources ( largely the same as Payne ).

The Triumph of Titus, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ( 1885 ).

* The History of Sir Richard Whittington by T. H. ( 1885 ), from Project Gutenberg

Inside the Mausoleum itself are the remains of the last four sultans, Haji Sir Muda Omar Ali Saifuddin ( 1950 – 1967 ), who died in 1986, Ahmad Tajuddin Ibnu Sultan Muhammad Jamalul Alam ( 1924 – 1950 ), Muhammad Jamalul Alam Ibnu Sultan Hashim ( 1906 – 1924 ), and Hashim Jalilul Alam Putera Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin II ( 1885 – 1906 ).

King Solomon's Mines ( 1885 ) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard.

' Seeking a contest with the Whigs, Chamberlain and Sir Charles Dilke presented their resignations to Gladstone on 20 May 1885, when the Cabinet rejected Chamberlain's scheme for the creation of National Councils in England, Scotland and Wales and when a proposed Land Purchase Bill did not have any provision for the reform of Irish local government.

European-American settlers founded the village in April 1885, naming it in honor of the Scottish politician and businessman Sir John Pender, a pioneer of the Transatlantic Cable.

His chief publications are his translation of the History of Herodotus ( in collaboration with Sir Henry Rawlinson and Sir John Gardiner Wilkinson ), 1858 – 60 ; The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, 1862 – 67 ; The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy ( Parthian ), 1873 ; The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy ( Sassanian ), 1875 ; Manual of Ancient History, 1869 ; Historical Illustrations of the Old Testament, 1871 ; The Origin of Nations, 1877 ; History of Ancient Egypt, 1881 ; Egypt and Babylon, 1885 ; History of Phoenicia, 1889 ; Parthia, 1893 ; Memoir of Major-General Sir HC Rawlinson, 1898.

* Sir Sanford Fleming circa 1885

The reign of Sri Moolam Thirunal Sir Rama Varma 1885 – 1924 saw the establishment of many colleges and schools.

Sir Malcolm Campbell ( 11 March 1885 – 31 December 1948 ) was an English racing motorist and motoring journalist.

In 1885, Nathaniel Graniss donated land for the construction of the First Quinnipiac School.

Two of the players were Nathaniel Creswick ( 1826 – 1917 ) and William Prest ( 1832 – 1885 ), both of whom were born in Yorkshire.

The Bradlee-McIntyre House was built circa 1885 for noted Boston architect Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee and family.

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

* C. Schmidt, Histoire de l ' Église d ' Occident pendant le Moyen Âge ( Paris, 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 –?

830 and was not rediscovered until 1885, when Ernst Dümmler identified a text in a manuscript in Vienna as the missing Libellus de adoranda cruce, which Einhard had dedicated to his pupil Lupus Servatus.

In January 1885 the Foreign Legion's 4th Battalion ( chef de bataillon Vitalis ) was deployed to the French bridgehead at Keelung ( Jilong ) in Formosa ( Taiwan ), where it took part in the later battles of the Keelung Campaign.

Prize-winning works were produced by the Société des Concerts, Institut de France, from 1885 to 1911.

* 1986 – Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentine physician, politician, and activist ( b. 1885 )

* France-In 1885, a society called the Société de Psychologie Physiologique ( Society for Physiological Psychology ) was formed by Charles Richet, Théodule-Armand Ribot and Léon Marillier.

** George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1885 )

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He was best known for his Lettres de mon moulin ( eng: Letters from my Mill ) ( 1869 ) and the Tartarin de Tarascon trilogy ( 1872, 1885, 1890 ).

After a brief de facto protectorate period beginning in 1885 the island became a full formal French protectorate in 1890, then a colony in 1896, and gained full independence from France in 1960 in the wake of decolonization.

Between then and 1885, the Sorbonne served as the seat of the university's theology faculties and of the Académie de Paris.

* Kee-too-way-how (‘ Sounding With Flying Wings ’, better known as Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born 1834 St. Boniface, Manitoba, son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was of Métis descent he became chief of the Willow Cree and the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother of Petequakey (‘ Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau ’), lived along Duck Lake, signed 1876 Treaty 6 and settled in a reserve at Muskeg Lake-that was later named after his brother Petequakey-but left the reserve in 1880 and lived again in the following years close to St. Laurent de Grandin mission, played a prominent role during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 in which he participated in every battle, served also as an emissary of the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont to ask the Assiniboine for support, on 23 May 1885 he also submitted the declaration of surrender of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker ') to General Middleton, was captured on the 1st June 1885, in the subsequent trial of Kee-too-way-how at Regina, Louis Cochin testified that he and the carters in the camp of Pitikwahanapiwiyin survived only thanks to the intercession by Kee-way-too-how and its people, despite the positive testimony, he was on 14 August 1885 sentenced to imprisonment for seven years for his involvement in the Métis rebellion, died 1886 ).