What Happened in January 1885

Historical Events

Jan 11 Henrik Ibsen's play "Vildauden," (The Wild Duck) premieres in Oslo

Jan 17 Battle of Abu Klea (Battle of Abu Tulayh), Sudan: British Desert Column defeat Mahdist forces: 76 British and 1,100 Mahdists killed
Jan 19 Battle of Abu Kru (Battle of Gubat), Sudan: British Desert Column defeat Mahdist forces: 121 British and untold Mahdists killed

Jan 25 Vincent d'Indy's "Saugefleurie" premieres

Jan 28 Commission for Auguste Rodin's sculpture 'The Burghers of Calais' signed by the Municipal Council of Calais.

Jan 8 John Curtin, Victoria, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (Labor: 1941-45), born in Creswick, Colony of Victoria (d. 1945)

Jan 11 Alice Paul, American suffragist (National Woman's Party), born in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey (d. 1977)

Jan 11 Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (The White Outlaw), born in Kingfisher Creek, Oklahoma (d. 1965)
Jan 13 Alfred Fuller, CEO (Fuller Brush Man)
Jan 15 Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician, born in Wolfurt, Austria (d. 1973)
Jan 15 Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer, born in Jiujiang, China (d. 1915)
Jan 15 Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player, born in Sandborn, Illinois (d. 1968)
Jan 16 Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40)
Jan 16 Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)
Jan 17 Emmy Hennings-Ball [Emma Cordsen], German poet and performer, born in Flensburg, German Empire (d. 1948)
Jan 17 Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader
Jan 21 Umberto Nobile, Italian general
Jan 23 Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, Polish composer and conductor, born in Lviv, Ukraine (d. 1944)
Jan 25 Else Mauhs [Alwine Julie Else Mauhs], German-Dutch actress (Eline Vere, L'aiglon), born in Mülheim an der Ruhr (d. 1959)
Jan 25 Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet & children's writers, born in Nankan, Japan (d. 1942)

Jan 27 Jerome Kern, American Broadway and film composer (Showboat; Roberta), born in NYC, New York (d. 1945)

Jan 27 Eduard Künneke, German conductor and theater composer, born in Emmerich, Germany (d. 1953)
Jan 27 Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977)
Jan 30 John Henry Towers, American naval aviator, born in Rome, Georgia (d. 1955)

Jan 4 Iosif Kotek, Russian composer and violinist, dies at 29
Jan 6 Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer, dies at 72
Jan 6 Harishchandra, Indian poet, dramatist and commonly referred as "father of modern Hindi", dies at 34
Jan 13 Schuyler Colfax, American politician (b.1823)
Jan 15 Levin Minn Powell, American Commander (Union Navy), dies at 81
Jan 16 Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (Le Roi des montagnes), dies at 56
Jan 19 Fred Burnaby, English colonel/balloon pioneer, dies in battle
Jan 24 Martin Delany, African-American abolitionist and physician (1st African American major in US Army), dies at 72
Jan 26 Charles George Gordon, British Governor-General of Sudan, executed at 51
Jan 26 Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)