He graduated magna cum laude in philosophy from Harvard in 1885, where he was editor of the Harvard Lampoon.

Vernadsky graduated from Saint Petersburg State University in 1885.

He graduated from Hämeenlinna Lyseo in 1885.

He graduated in 1885 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and after field experience in Colorado and other states was appointed on October 2, 1888, as Assistant Hydraulic Engineer of the United States Geological Survey, being the first aide designated under Major John Wesley Powell to investigate the extent to which the arid regions of the United States might be reclaimed by irrigation.

Penrose graduated in 1885 with a Ph. D. from Harvard for work on phosphates.

Born in Phillipsburg, Kansas, March 15, 1885, Pratt began his career in geology as an assistant with the Kansas Geological Survey shortly after he graduated from the University of Kansas in 1907 with a bachelor's degree.

In May, 1885, Sven Hedin graduated from Beskowska secondary school in Stockholm.

Eugen became then the sole archduke to attend the several year long course at the academy ( 1883 – 1885 ) and subsequently successfully graduated as a fully trained general staff officer.

He graduated from the Tiflis Theological Seminary in 1885 and was ordained to the priesthood in Abkhazia where he served as a priest in Sukhumi, New Athos, and Lykhny, and also delivered courses in the Georgian language.

He was educated first by his parents and then at Foyle College in Derry and Trinity College in Dublin, where he graduated in 1882 and was made a fellow in 1885, at the age of 24.

He was born in Antioch, Turkey to Lucien Harper Adams and Nancy Dorrance Francis Adams, missionary parents, and was brought to the U. S. in 1885 He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1898, then continued his education in Germany.

* Chester Alan Arthur Jr. ( 1864 – 1937 )-He graduated from Princeton University in 1885 and went on to Columbia Law School.

He attended Buchtel College in Akron, Ohio and graduated 1885.

Born February 13, 1885 in Syracuse, New York, Hancock graduated from Wesleyan University in 1906 and New York Law School in 1908.

He graduated from Yale University in 1865, was instructor there for two years, was United States consul at Piraeus in Greece in 1869-1871, taught Greek in Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, in 1876-1885, and was principal of Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Connecticut, from 1885 to 1903, the school owing its prosperity to him hardly less than to its founders.

He entered the Naval Academy on September 28, 1881 and graduated on June 5, 1885.

Smith was born in Elkton, Maryland, on 11 September 1885, and graduated from the University of Delaware.

In 1885 he graduated M. B., C. M., " with honourable distinction " and joined the Indian Medical Service.

He graduated at Western Reserve College in 1882 and at Union Theological Seminary in 1885, studied in Germany ( especially under Harnack ) in 1885-1887, and in Italy and France in 1888, and in that year received the degree of doctor of philosophy at Marburg.

Coontz graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1885 and served at the Navy Department and in several ships over the next decade, among them vessels stationed in Alaskan waters and the Great Lakes.

In 1885 he graduated from the School of Bridges and Roads at the top of his class.

Rainey attended the public schools and Knox Academy and Knox College, Galesburg, Ill. he transferred to, and graduated from Amherst College in 1883 and then the Union College of Law, in Chicago which he graduated in 1885.

Kavanaugh attended public schools in Kentucky and graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute at Farmdale, Kentucky in 1885.

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.

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.

Funeral procession of Alfonso XII, from the 5 December 1885, issue of L ' Illustration

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

Lured by Austria-Hungary's promises for territorial gains from Bulgaria ( in return for concessions in the Western Balkans ), Milan IV declared war on Bulgaria on 14 November 1885.

In the first election after the Act was passed ( 1885 ), thirteen were elected, up from two in 1874.

In 1998, Pensacola Christian College produced a widely distributed videotape, arguing that this " leaven of fundamentalism " was passed from the 19th-century Princeton theologian Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 – 1921 ) to Charles Brokenshire ( 1885 – 1954 ), who served BJU as Dean of the School of Religion, and then to current BJU faculty members and graduates.

Nigeria relied largely on Anglo-German correspondence dating from 1885 as well as treaties between the colonial powers and the indigenous rulers in the area, particularly the 1884 Treaty of Protection.

The Criminal Law ( Amendment ) Act of 1950 amended an Act of 1885 to bring prostitutes within the law and safeguard them from abduction and abuse.

Pissarro then spent the next four years, from 1885 to 1888, practicing this more time-consuming and laborious technique, referred to as pointillism.

These first seven Carmichael numbers, from 561 to 8911, were all found by the Czech mathematician Václav Šimerka in 1885 ( thus preceding not just Carmichael but also Korselt, although Šimerka did not find anything like Korselt's criterion ).

John Forrest was the longest serving president of Dalhousie, holding the office from 1885 to 1911.

Designed to Japanese specifications and ordered from the London Yarrow shipyards in 1885, she was transported in parts to Japan, where she was assembled and launched in 1887.

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.

Sheep farming was then introduced, taking over from the cattle trade in the 1870s and becoming self-supporting by 1885.

In the early years other teams from Wales, Ireland and Scotland also took part in the competition, with Glasgow side Queen's Park losing the final to Blackburn Rovers in 1884 and 1885 before being barred from entering by the Scottish Football Association.

In 1885, after Barbados left the British Windward Islands, the capital of the colonial confederation was moved from Bridgetown to St. George on Grenada.

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

A paper from 1885 laments that " Gunpowder is such a nervous and sensitive spirit, that in almost every process of manufacture it changes under our hands as the weather changes.

The Governors also previously had a summer residence, " Hillview ", in Sutton Forest from 1885 to 1957.

In 1885, he became professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, then in 1891 he was made Honorary Professor of the medical faculty and Director of the new Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases ( eventually renamed as the Robert Koch Institute ), a position from which he resigned in 1904.