1885
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1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) was 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.
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Art and culture
- July 6 - the Pall Mall Gazette begins a series titled "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon"
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Literature
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Richard Francis Burton
- Germinal by Émile Zola
- Catena Librorum Tacendorum by Henry Spencer Ashbee
- Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, a collection of poetry by Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire
- Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater
- History Of Painting Vol II The Painting Of The Renascence by Woltmann and Woermann, translated by Clara Bell
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Music
- Tin Pan Alley (start of)
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Painting
- The Ecstatic Virgin Anna Katharina Emmerich by Gabriel Cornelius von Max
- Grand Bath at Bursa by Jean Léon Gerôme
- The Potato Eaters by Vincent van Gogh
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Births
- Luigi Russolo (1885 - 1947)
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
- Erich von Stroheim (1885 - 1957)
- Georg Lukács (1885 - 1971)
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Deaths
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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