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


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  • 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