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| 1885 |
| | | Italian troops occupy Eritrea, a province of Ethiopia | |
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| 1885 |
| | | A secret revolutionary group (Union and Progress, later known as the Young Turks) is formed in Salonika in the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Gladstone resigns as British prime minister, after a defeat on the budget, and is followed by a minority government headed by Conservative leader Lord Salisbury | |
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| 1885 |
| | | The name Coca-Cola is registered by John S. Pemberton in America for a drink of cocaine, cola nuts and citrus juices | |
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| 1885 |
| | | The Statue of Liberty, by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, is assembled in Paris before being shipped across the Atlantic | |
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| 1885 |
| | | German warships arrive in Zanzibar harbour to persuade the sultan to cede territory to the Kaiser, William I | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Louis Pasteur uses rabies inoculation to save the life of 9-year-old Joseph Meister, bitten by a rabid dog | |
|  | Jupille struggling with a rabid dog
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1885 |
| | | The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Leaving his family in Copenhagen, French artist Paul Gauguin returns to Paris to paint full-time | |
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| c. 1885 |
| | | French painter Georges Seurat develops the dotted style of impressionism that becomes known as Pointillism | |
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