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January 20 – American inventor LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents a roller coaster. January 24 – Irish rebels damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite. [1] January 26 – Mahdist War in Sudan: Troops loyal to Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad conquer Khartoum; British commander Charles George Gordon is killed.
Feb 19, 2024 · Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900 (1885) →. information about this edition. related portals: Biography, WikiProject DNB, Collective works. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item. standard work of reference with articles on more than 29,000 notable figures from British history.
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August 25 – Author Laura Ingalls Wilder marries Almanzo Wilder. September 2 – The Rock Springs massacre occurs in Rock Springs, Wyoming; 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town. September 8 – Saint Thomas Academy is founded in Minnesota.
Oct 5, 2023 · Dictionary of National Biography (1885) →. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item. The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.
Nov 14, 2021 · Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 58. Vossius, Isaac by Thomas Seccombe. Vulliamy, Benjamin Lewis. →. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item. 1904 Errata appended. VOSSIUS, ISAAC (1618–1689), canon of Windsor, and scholar, born at Leyden in 1618, was the seventh child of Gerard John Vos (1577–1649), the famous ...
1885. 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1885th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 885th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1880s decade.
