* 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.

Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet ( 24 August 1816 – 15 October 1889 ) was an English railway and transatlantic cable engineer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1885.

Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson, 1st Baronet ( 21 September 1806-12 March 1885 ), was an Anglo-American fur merchant, best remembered for his promotion of the transatlantic telegraph cable.

In 1885 the Broadway commercial district was overrun with telephone, telegraph, and electrical lines.

The port facilities were improved with jetties, a telegraph line was established along the coast to Saint-Louis and the Dakar-Saint-Louis railway was completed in 1885, at which point the city became an important base for the conquest of the western Sudan.

In 1885, Mindelo was the switching station for the first Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.

in 1885, the Meiji government sponsored a telegraph system, throughout Japan, situating the telegraphs in all major Japanese cities at the time.

In 1885, Woods patented an apparatus which was a combination of a telephone and a telegraph.

Be that as it may, telegraph lines between Joseon, China, and Japan were laid between 1883 and 1885, facilitating communication.

On March 17, 1885, Irvine received a telegraph from Superintendent Leif Crozier that there was trouble near Fort Carlton and reinforcements were required.

In recognition of this he was elected in 1885 as an honorary member of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and was informed of this by telegraph shortly before his death.

In 1885, Preece and Arthur West Heaviside ( Oliver Heaviside's brother ) experimented with parallel telegraph lines and an unwired telephone receiver, discovering radio induction ( later identified with the effects of crosstalk ).

In 1885, Henry Sutton developed a Telephane for closed circuit transmission of pictures via telegraph wires, based on the Nipkow spinning disk system, so that the Melbourne Cup could be seen in Ballarat.

Between 1885 and 1911, Professor Johnson delved into many other areas, including electric storage batteries, steam and gas powered automobiles, huge pneumatic clock towers and wireless telegraph communication.

The town was proclaimed a township and gazetted in 1885, and reached its peak in the 1920s, prior to the construction of a new telegraph line further north alongside the Trans-Australian Railway in 1929.

Melbourne's cable tram system opened in 1885, and expanded to one of the largest in the world, with of double track.

Melbourne ’ s first cable tram service on 11 November 1885

The first cable tram line opened on 11 November 1885, running from Bourke Street to Hawthorn Bridge, along Spencer Street, Flinders Street, Wellington Parade and Bridge Road, with the last line opening on 27 October 1891.

* 1885 – First cable tram line opens in the Melbourne cable tramway system

The first cable tram line opened by the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company was from Bourke Street to Hawthorn Bridge along Spencer Street, Flinders Street, Wellington Parade and Bridge Road opened on 11 November 1885.

The Second Street Cable Railway was a cable car system which opened in Los Angeles in 1885.

The Melbourne cable tramway system was a cable car public transportation system operated from 1885 to 1940 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Although the first electric tram was introduced in 1885 at Doncaster and ran for 11 years, the electric tram network did not seriously commence until 1906 when the Victorian Railways built an " Electric Street Railway " from St Kilda railway station to Brighton, and the North Melbourne Electric Tramway and Lighting Company ( NMETL ) built a feeder line from the terminus of the cable system out towards Essendon.