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# 1885

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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s

Years: 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 - 1885 - 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890

## [edit] Births

- September 17 - George Cleveland, Canadian actor

## [edit] Deaths

- March 31 - Charlotte Bronte, British writer

## [edit] Events

- Benz builds the first single-cylinder engine for car.
- John K Starley creates the first genuine bicycle, the Rover.
- John Boyd Dunlop invents the pneumatic tire.
- W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan's The Mikado
- The Times reports that "A lady well-known in literary and scientific circles" has been cremated by the Cremation Society in Woking, Surrey. She is the first person to be officially cremated in the United Kingdom.
- Cholera epidemic in Spain – one of the victims is the king Alfonso XII.
- Third Burmese War begins.
- Sitting Bull joins Buffalo Bill.
- Randolph Churchill becomes a viceroy of India.
- Nikola Tesla sells a number of his patents to George Westinghouse.
- William Stanley, Jr. builds the first practical alternating current transformer device, the induction coil.
- Local anesthetic.
- First skyscraper – Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, USA (10 floors) is built.
- Bicycle Playing Cards are first produced.
- Grover Cleveland replaces Chester A. Arthur as President of the United States

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