1885 Glasglow Research Project

Events

January 4 - The first successful appendectomy is performed (Dr. William Grant; patient was Mary Gartside).
January 20 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
January 26 - Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum
February 5 - King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
February 9 - The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
February 18 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time
February 21 - The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated
March 3 - A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.
March 31 - The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
May 12 - The four day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel French Canadians against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
July 6 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister; a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.

Change of US presidency from Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885) to Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)
The North-West Rebellion took place and was put down in Canada (March to May).
W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan's The Mikado

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

Births

Deaths