* 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.

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.

In 1885, Ybor moved again, buying land near the then-small city of Tampa, Florida and building the largest cigar factory in the world at the time in the new company town of Ybor City.

Built between 1883 and 1885 and opened for initial occupation in 1884, the twelve-story red-brick building that is now the Hotel Chelsea was one of the city's first private apartment cooperatives.

In 1885 a governor, H E Chetwynd Stapleton, bought a plot of land behind the Jesus Hospital, a building in Wood Street dating back to 1679 ; today the Stapylton field stands in front of the main School building and is used for rugby and cricket.

From Ritzville's designation as county seat in 1884 until 1892, courts were briefly held in rented space before the county purchased a building from N. H. Greene in 1885.

The RCMP chapel frame building was built in 1885 is still standing which was used to jail Indian prisoners.

Etymologically, according to the OED, the word matriarchy is first attested in 1885, building on an earlier matriarch, formed in analogy to patriarch, already in use in the early 17th century.

Continuing the style of the earlier buildings, various designers were responsible for the decoration, the terracotta embellishments were again the work of Godfrey Sykes, although sgraffito was used to decorate the east side of the building designed by F. W. Moody, a final embellishment were the wrought iron gates made as late as 1885 designed by Starkie Gardner, these lead to a passage through the building.

Colonel Jacob Taylor purchased from Enoch Talbert in 1885, with visions of building a seaside resort for the rich and famous.

In 1885 building started on a bridge across the Missouri River, CBQ ( Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ) was the building company.

The new homestead was erected in 1885 and its foundations, walls, and partitions were constructed using brick from the Brigham Brick Yard, situated just north of the library building.

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.

The building was used as a hospital in 1885 when the typhoid epidemic visited that town and scores of people died of the malady.

After the county outgrew the one-story stone building that had housed its public offices, in 1885 an ornate brick courthouse was completed on the square on the south side of the river.

* Thomas Clark Durant ( 1820 – 1885 ), key figure in building the First Transcontinental Railroad

The college moved to its present location in 1885 after building an endowment and seeking the help of the Presbyterian Church.

A new tower was added in 1685 and the building was reconditioned by the Society for Preservation of Ancient Buildings in 1885.

Financial problems were solved when King Oscar II decided to pay for its relocation and restoration as the central building of his private open-air museum near Oslo, where it was completed in 1885.

Finally it should be added that in Zajc's and Kuhač's era, major halls for musical performances and concerts were built: in Zagreb the building of the Croatian Music Institute ( 1876, 1895 ) with a concert hall, and the building of the Croatian National Theatre ( 1895 ), including the theatre buildings in Rijeka ( 1885 ), Split ( 1893 ) and Osijek ( 1907 ) where, along with the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, drama, opera and ballet performances are still played today.

In 1885 The Sun constructed a building for its Washington Bureau at 1317 F Street, NW.

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.