31 notable events from 1885.
- Atrocities in the Congo Free State
1885–1908 · DR Congo
- North-West Rebellion
Mar 26, 1885–Jun 3, 1885 · Canada
- Taxil hoax
1885–1897 · —
- Rock Springs massacre
Sep 2, 1885 · United States
- Battle of Batoche
May 9, 1885–May 12, 1885 · Canada
- Tristan da Cunha lifeboat disaster
Nov 27, 1885 · Saint Helena
- Panjdeh incident
Feb 1885–Mar 30, 1885 · Turkmenistan
- Bulgarian Crisis (1885–1888)
Sep 18, 1885 · North Macedonia
- Prussian deportations
1885–1890 · Germany
- Panama crisis of 1885
Apr 30, 1885 · Panama
- Port Hamilton incident
Mar 1, 1885–Feb 5, 1887 · South Korea
- Trial of Louis Riel
Jul 1, 1885 · Canada
- Tonkin Affair
Mar 1885 · France
- Frog Lake Massacre
Apr 2, 1885 · Canada
- Cần Vương movement
Jul 2, 1885 · Vietnam
- Carolines Question
Dec 17, 1885 · Micronesia
- Martha Needle
Jan 1, 1885–Jan 1, 1894 · —
- Osaka Incident
1885 · Japan
- Tacoma riot of 1885
Nov 3, 1885 · United States
- Huaraz Rebellion
Mar 1, 1885–Sep 28, 1887 · Peru
- 1885 Dynamite explosion
Sep 4, 1885 · Canada
- 1885 Chinese expulsion from Eureka
Feb 7, 1885 · United States
- 1885 Pierce City lynching
Sep 18, 1885 · United States
- 1885 Yodo River floods
1885 · —
- 1885 Kashmir earthquake
May 30, 1885 · India
- Jambi uprising
1885 · Indonesia
- Salt Clay Creek railway disaster
Jan 25, 1885 · Australia
- 1885 Bengal earthquake
Jul 14, 1885 · Bangladesh
- Murder of Eugène van Oppen
Apr 9, 1885 · Netherlands
- 1885 Belovodoskoe earthquake
Aug 2, 1885 · Kyrgyzstan
- 1885 Cabery fire
May 3, 1885 · United States