* 1885 – Indian National Congress a political party of India is founded in Bombay, British India.

In 1883 Darmstadt University of Technology and Cornell University introduced the world's first courses of study in electrical engineering, and in 1885 the University College London founded the first chair of electrical engineering in the United Kingdom.

In 1885 Captain Graham with other breeders founded the Irish Wolfhound Club, and the Breed Standard of Points to establish and agree the ideal to which breeders should aspire.

* 1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology ( Georgia Tech ) is founded in Atlanta, United States.

The Society of Painters in Pastel was founded in 1885.

He joined the faculty of Bryn Mawr College ( 1885 – 88 ) and then Wesleyan University ( 1888 – 90 ), where he also coached the football team and founded the debate team – still called the T. Woodrow Wilson debate team.

Michigan Tech was founded in 1885 as the first post-secondary institution in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and was created to train mining engineers to operate the local copper mines.

Michigan Tech was founded in 1885 as the Michigan Mining School.

The last nearby mines closed in the late 1960s, but a school founded in 1885 by the Michigan State Legislature to teach metallurgy and mining engineering, the Michigan College of Mines, continues today under the name of Michigan Technological University and is the primary employer in the city.

The finishing school that made Switzerland renowned for such institutions was Château Mont-Choisi, founded in 1885, which closed in 1995 or 1996.

( home ground " The Dripping Pan ") founded in 1885 who currently play in the Premier Division of the Isthmian League, known as the Ryman Premier.

The club has been nicknamed " The Saints " since its inception in 1885 due to its history as a church football team, founded as St Mary's Church of England Young Men's Association ( or St Mary's Y. M. A ) and has since played in red and white.

In 2001 the move from The Dell to the new Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium was a homecoming for Southampton F. C., because of the new stadium's proximity to St Mary's, the church where the club was founded on 21 November 1885 by members of the St Mary's Church of England Young Men's Association.

Springfield College was founded in 1885 as an international training school for YMCA Professionals, while one of the two schools that eventually became Concordia University — started from night courses offered at the Montreal YMCA.

IF Odd was founded in 1885, and is thus one of the older sports clubs in Norway still in existence.

The company was founded by cousins Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith in New York City in 1885 as Binney & Smith.

Sudbury, was formed on 1 June 1999 by the amalgamation of two existing clubs, Sudbury Town ( founded 1885 ) and Sudbury Wanderers ( founded 1958 ).

The town was founded in 1884 and was incorporated and held its first election on May 8, 1885.

Legend has it that his donkey wandered off during the morning of September 4, 1885 ; Kellogg found the animal at a large outcropping of galena, which became the site of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mines ; those mines led to the founding of Kellogg, a city where a local sign reads " This is the town founded by a jackass and inhabited by his descendants.

It was founded in 1885 and named for Elnora Griffith, wife of an early merchant.

It was founded in 1885 by German immigrants and named for Elberfeld, Germany.

A relic of the city's coal mining days was the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company, founded in 1885, and one of the oldest continuously running coal companies in the United States ( even though its headquarters moved several years ago to Denver, Colorado after the Kansas mines closed ).

The first Ulysses town site, founded in June 1885, was located approximately 2 miles east of present day Ulysses.

Leoti was founded in 1885 by a company of men from Garden City, Kansas.

They shared a flat with Jackson's brother Adalbert until 1885 when Housman moved to lodgings of his own.

In November 1885 he went to Newberg, Oregon, to live with his uncle John Minthorn, a frontier physician and businessman whose own son had died the year before.

Between 1878 and 1919 Britain, France and Germany, busy extending their own colonial territories in the region, threatened Liberia militarily, and France and Britain forced Liberia to cede parts of its territory to them ( 1883, 1885, 1892, 1903, 1919 ).

Competitions were held around tracks of varying lengths — the 1885 match between Axel Paulsen and Remke van der Zee was skated on a track of 6 / 7 mile ( 1400 metres )— but the 400 metre track was standardised by the ISU in 1892, along with the standard distances for world championships, 500 m, 1500 m, 5000 m and 10, 000 m. Skaters started in pairs, each to their own lane, and changed lanes for every lap to ensure that each skater completed the same distance.

* 1883 – 1885: Josiah H. L. Tuck, an American inventor, works in his own submarine designs.

Articled to a firm of solicitors in Porthmadog, Lloyd George was admitted in 1884 after taking Honours in his final law examination and set up his own practice in the back parlour of his uncle's house in 1885.

In 1885, he opened his own business and designed and made his own jewellery and other glass pieces.

A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year.

In 1887, he quit his job with Watkins and opened his own land company ( some sources claim Dr. Knapp started his company in 1885, but the evidence is inconclusive ).

Between 1885 and 1916, Crawick even had its own post office ( known as Crawick Bridge ); it also had gas-powered streetlights two years before the rest of the town of Sanquhar.

In 1885, Iceland began issuing its own banknotes.

Andrew Kettle, Parnell's right hand man, who shared a lot of his opinions, wrote of his own views, " I confess that I felt 1885, and still feel, a greater leaning towards the British Tory party than I ever could have towards the so-called Liberals.

Quiet, shrewd, attentive to the public interest and his own, but without any particular distinction, he would have left an unblemished reputation if he had not unfortunately accepted a second term ( 18 December 1885 ).

In 1885, after Bochum district was split up, Gelsenkirchen became the seat of its own district ( Kreis ), which would last until 1926.

Her teaching career and her own studies ended when she married Almanzo Wilder, whom she called Manly, on August 25, 1885, when she was eighteen and he was twenty-eight.

Marty decides to travel to 1885 to rescue Doc and return to his own timeline.

In 1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus created nonsense syllables, combinations of letters that do not follow grammatical rules and have no meaning, to test his own memory.

In 1885 Belyayev started his own publishing house in Leipzig, Germany, initially publishing music by Glazunov, Lyadov, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin at his own expense.

The steel-frame building was designed by architects Albert and Herman Wagner in 1885, as the world's largest lithographic pressworks under a single roof, with its own electricity-generating dynamo.

After 1885 the Windward Islands Colony was under one Governor-General in Grenada and each island had its own Lieutenant-Governor and its own assembly ( as before ).

His temper as leader was, however, too gentle to satisfy the more ardent spirits among his own followers, and party cabals ( in which Lord Randolph Churchill, who had made a dead set at the " old gang ", took a leading part ) led to Sir Stafford's elevation to the Lords in 1885, when Lord Salisbury became prime minister.