Events from 1885

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1885 ID: 381
Peirce distinguishes between first-order and second-order logic in his Johns Hopkins lectures
ID: 381
1885 ID: 1063
Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe perfect optical instruments in Jena, making German optics world-leading
ID: 1063
Jena
1885 ID: 1065
Leicester Demonstration Resolution: Compulsory vaccination subversive of personal liberty, tyrannical and unjust
ID: 1065
Leicester
1885 ID: 1066
Anti-Vaccination League of New York City formed; Montreal mob attacks health board over mandatory vaccination
ID: 1066
New York
1885 ID: 1067
Home Insurance Building in Chicago becomes first steel-frame skyscraper
ID: 1067
Chicago
1885 ID: 1068
Councillor Butcher: Best way to get rid of smallpox is water, good food, light and airy houses
ID: 1068
Leicester
1885 ID: 4468
William Burroughs develops first practical adding machine with printer - founds American Arithmometer Company
ID: 4468
1885 ID: 4587
Planck appointed associate professor at Kiel - begins work on thermodynamics and entropy
ID: 4587
1885 ID: 1064
March 23, 1885
Great Leicester Demonstration: 80,000-100,000 anti-vaccinators march with coffin and Jenner effigy
ID: 1064
Leicester
1885 ID: 1069
April 9, 1885
St. Therese enters Carmel at age 15 - takes name Therese of Child Jesus and Holy Face
ID: 1069
1885 ID: 1062
November 1, 1885
Pope Leo XIII issues Immortale Dei on Christian constitution of states
ID: 1062

Books & Texts from 1885

📖 alfred-tennyson-tennyson - idylls-of-the-king
📖 william-dean-howells - the-rise-of-silas-lapham
📖 robert-louis-stevenson - a-childs-garden-of-verses
📖 robert-louis-stevenson - prince-otto-a-romance
📖 robert-louis-stevenson-and-fanny-van-de-grift-stevenson - the-dynamiter