* 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

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 ).

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen

The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna ( also called Gortyn ).

Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.

Accrington was first represented nationally after the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 after the 1885 general election by Accrington ( UK Parliament constituency ).

The first professional black baseball club, the Cuban Giants, was organized in 1885.

The basic shape and configuration of a typical upright bicycle has changed little since the first chain-driven model was developed around 1885.

Starley's 1885 Rover, manufactured in Coventry, England, is usually described as the first recognizably modern bicycle.

* Karl Benz ( 1844 – 1929 ), German engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who built the first patented automobile in 1885

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

The vital meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885, W M C Hickson served as the chairman, and other notables in attendance included all the big sugar mill owners of that time, W G Farquhar, F L Nott, S McDougall, T Penny, S H Bravo and A H Young, all to become the first directors of the Company.

During its rebuilding period, Chicago constructed the world's first skyscraper in 1885, using steel-skeleton construction.

In 1885, the first steel-framed high-rise building, the Home Insurance Building, rose in the city as Chicago ushered in the skyscraper era, which would then be followed by many other cities around the world.

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 ).

Although the first graduate degree, a PhD in classics, was awarded in 1885, many of the current PhD programs trace their origins to the 1960s.

* 1885 – Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

The first important frontier dispute was the Panjdeh crisis of 1885, precipitated by Russian encroachment into Central Asia.

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.

* 1885 – The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.

* 1885: Karl Benz invents Benz Patent Motorwagen worlds first automobile.

Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt ( June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964 ) was a German neuropathologist, who first described the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

In Europe, it is believed that in 1885 the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club was formed to play the first Ice Hockey Varsity Match against traditional rival Cambridge in St. Moritz, Switzerland, although this is undocumented.

When he was indicted for defrauding the Post Office, they renamed it on March 5, 1885, for Grover Cleveland, the newly elected President of the United States.

Then in 1885, the U. S. Postal Service rejected the use of two words for a post office name, so Rufus submitted just the name Helix and also became the first postmaster in Spring Valley ; the Helix Post Office was operated out of his home.

The Ninnescah Post Office opened August 20, 1885.

Mercier was the first Post Master and took office on December 14, 1885.

The members of Charles W. Carroll Post 144 pose on the steps of the Norfolk County Courthouse in Dedham, Massachusetts on Dedham's 250th anniversary in 1885.

A shift can also be seen in Korea itself, where postage stamps issued in 1884 used the name " Corean Post " in English, but those from 1885 and thereafter used " Korea " or " Korean Post ".

The " home rule " movement for a Scottish Assembly was first taken up in 1853 by a body close to the Conservative Party, complaining about the fact that Ireland received more support from the British Government than Scotland and soon began to receive Liberal Party backing, In 1885, the Post of Secretary for Scotland and the Scottish Office were re-established to promote Scotland's interests and voice its grievances to the British Parliament.

The Canadian Post Office refused to accept the name Lethbridge for the community until 1885 because there was another town with the same name in the Dominion of Canada.

In 1885 the Post Office established a Special Delivery service, issuing a ten-cent stamp depicting a running messenger, along with the wording “ secures immediate delivery at a special delivery office .” Initially, only 555 such offices existed but the following year all U. S. Post Offices were obliged to provide the service — an extension not, however, reflected on the Special Delivery stamp until 1888, when the words “ at any post office ” appeared on its reprint.

St Ives Post Office opened on 10 November 1885 and the first public school opened on 6 May 1889.

The population was sufficient to justify a Post Office, opening on 16 December 1885 ( known as Officer's Siding until 1888, Officer Railway Station until 1913 ).

The Post Office opened in 1878 as Box Forest, was renamed Fawkner in 1885 and closed in 1888.

The Post Office opened on 1 July 1885 as Black Flat in the area to the south of the railway line, was renamed Glen Waverley in 1921, and Glen Waverley South in 1963 on the same day Glen Waverley North office ( open since 1954 ) was renamed Glen Waverley ( from 1994 The Glen ).

Heatherton Post Office opened on 6 May 1885, but closed in 1973.

Post Bathhouse: The newest building, built in 1885, housing 6 baths for the soldiers comfort.

That occasion came in 1885 when the Army Post Office Corps accompanied General Wolseley ’ s expedition to relieve General Gordon in Khartoum.

They landed at Suakin on 27 March 1885 and established the Base Army Post Office there.

The Army Postal service closed on 30 May 1885 after which the Indian Field Post Office in Suakin served the remaining troops.

On September 10, 1885, the existing Rumelian issues were overprinted with two different images of the Bulgarian lion, and then with the lion in a frame and " Bulgarian Post " in Bulgarian ( Cyrillic letters ).

The Kentucky Post was created as an edition of the paper in 1885 to serve Cincinnati's suburbs across the Ohio River.

* Post Office ( 1885 )

The original North Ryde Post Office on Lane Cove Road was opened in 1885 and in 1908 was moved to Coxs Road, and has since relocated premises within the Coxs Road Shopping precinct at least six times.