Historical figures in 1885
The atlas holds 32 people and 43 moments here, in 1885. The most recorded lives are Mark Twain, Mikhail Vrubel and Victor Hugo. Among them Writers, Scientists and Artists.
Notable people
Abai Qunanbaiuly
in 1885
1 moment here
Kazakh poet, composer, philosopher, translator, public figure, and foundational figure in Kazakh written literature.…
Alexander Graham Bell
in 1885
1 moment here
Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, teacher of the deaf, and engineer best known for patenting the first practical telephone.…
David Hilbert
in 1885
1 moment here
German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics whose career began in Königsberg and was centered at the University of Göttingen from 1895 until…
Emperor Meiji
in 1885
1 moment here
Emperor Meiji (Mutsuhito) was emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912. His reign encompassed the Meiji Restoration, the transfer of the imperial court…
Franz Kafka
in 1885
2 moments here
German-language Jewish Czech writer whose fiction transformed modern literature. Born and educated in Prague, Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked…
Friedrich Nietzsche
in 1885
1 moment here
German philosopher, classical philologist, cultural critic, poet, and author. Born in Röcken, Nietzsche was educated at Schulpforta and Leipzig,…
Grover Cleveland
in 1885
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Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States.…
Henrik Ibsen
in 1885
1 moment here
Norwegian playwright and poet whose career took him from Telemark and coastal Norway to theatre work in Bergen and Christiania, then to long…
Herbert Hoover
in 1885
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Herbert Clark Hoover was an American mining engineer, international relief administrator, U.S.…
Jack London
in 1885
1 moment here
American novelist, journalist, sailor, war correspondent, and socialist activist. Born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco, he grew up around the…
Johannes Brahms
in 1885
1 moment here
German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms developed as a performer there before touring Central Europe,…
José Rizal
in 1885
1 moment here
Filipino nationalist, writer, physician, and polymath whose reform advocacy, novels, exile, trial, and execution made him a central figure in…
Lavr Kornilov
in 1885
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Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was an Imperial Russian Army officer, military intelligence officer, explorer, and general.…
Louis Pasteur
in 1885
1 moment here
French chemist and microbiologist whose work on molecular asymmetry, fermentation, germ theory, pasteurization, and vaccines transformed modern…
Mark Twain
in 1885
5 moments here
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known as Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, journalist, lecturer, riverboat pilot, and traveler.…
Mikhail Frunze
in 1885
1 moment here
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Red Army commander, Soviet military theorist, and senior state official.…
Mikhail Vrubel
in 1885
3 moments here
Russian painter, draughtsman, sculptor, ceramic artist, and theatrical designer associated with Symbolism and Russian Art Nouveau.…
Niels Bohr
in 1885
1 moment here
Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Nikola Tesla
in 1885
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Serbian-American engineer and inventor best known for foundational work on alternating-current power systems, the induction motor, high-frequency…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1885
1 moment here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Ramakrishna
in 1885
2 moments here
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Ramakrishna Chattopadhyay) was an Indian Hindu mystic and religious teacher.…
Selma Lagerlöf
in 1885
1 moment here
Swedish writer, teacher, Nobel laureate, and women’s-suffrage speaker. Lagerlöf was born at Mårbacka in Värmland, trained in Stockholm, taught in…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1885
1 moment here
Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Sigmund Freud
in 1885
1 moment here
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. This chronology traces documented locations from his Moravian birthplace and Viennese education…
Moments
- 1885 First visit to Baddeck Alexander Graham Bell
- 1885 Research visit to Felix Klein David Hilbert
- 1885 Moves to Wenceslas Square Franz Kafka
- 1885 Family ranch near Livermore Jack London
- 1885 Ophthalmology study in Paris José Rizal
- 1885 Military school in Omsk Lavr Kornilov
- 1885 Returns to Hannibal on reading tour Mark Twain
- 1885 Second Toronto reading-tour visit Mark Twain
- 1885 Twain–Cable tour reaches Chicago Mark Twain
- 1885 Twain–Cable tour reaches Minneapolis Mark Twain
- 1885 Twain–Cable tour reaches St. Louis Mark Twain
- 1885 First Italian trip: Venice Mikhail Vrubel
- 1885 Arc-lighting installation Nikola Tesla
- 1885 Tours Hazaribagh Rabindranath Tagore
- 1885 Teaching at the girls’ secondary school Selma Lagerlöf
- 1885 Moved into Nikolai Zverev’s Moscow household Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1885 Care for Ramakrishna at Cossipore Swami Vivekananda
- 1885 Summer residence at Sagamore Hill Theodore Roosevelt
- 1885 Selects Fort Myers retreat Thomas Edison
- 1885 Professor at Bryn Mawr Woodrow Wilson
- 1885 Exile and study in Shanghai Yun Ch'iho
- 1885 Birth in Pishpek Mikhail Frunze
- 1885 Arrives at Punta Rassa Thomas Edison
- 1885 Third documented Venice stay Friedrich Nietzsche
- 1885 Extraordinary Congress of Biys at Karamola Abai Qunanbaiuly
- 1885 Return to Kyiv from Venice Mikhail Vrubel
- 1885 Dies at Avenue Victor-Hugo Victor Hugo
- 1885 Completes The Potato Eaters period Vincent van Gogh
- 1885 Odessa residence with Boris Edwards Mikhail Vrubel
- 1885 Studies with Charcot in Paris Sigmund Freud
- 1885 Buried in the Panthéon Victor Hugo
- 1885 Presidential correspondence in Washington Grover Cleveland
- 1885 Rabies treatment at ENS laboratory Louis Pasteur
- 1885 Death at Grant Cottage Ulysses S. Grant
- 1885 Arrival at Okayama Kōrakuen Emperor Meiji
- 1885 Return to Munich Henrik Ibsen
- 1885 Fourth Symphony premiere Johannes Brahms
- 1885 Birth in Copenhagen Niels Bohr
- 1885 Residence for treatment at Shyampukur Ramakrishna
- 1885 Moved to uncle's home in Newberg Herbert Hoover
- 1885 Moves to Antwerp Vincent van Gogh
- 1885 Lives on Dušní Street Franz Kafka
- 1885 Transfer to Cossipore Garden House Ramakrishna