WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1885
Find out what all happened May to November 1885

Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time. (2. May 1885)

The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada. (1. July 1885)

Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria. (28. November 1885)

Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished. (6. September 1885)

Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint. (14. August 1885)

Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination. (28. September 1885)

Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France. (9. June 1885)

North-West Rebellion: the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat. (12. May 1885)

Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. (6. July 1885)

Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason. (16. November 1885)

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, United States. (13. October 1885)

The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England. (29. September 1885)

Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 White miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town. (2. September 1885)

Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen. (29. August 1885)

The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business. (1. May 1885)

More than 1.5 million people attend the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant in New York City. (8. August 1885)

The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia. (7. November 1885)

The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association. (20. July 1885)

In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police. (3. June 1885)

The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium. (2. May 1885)