1885

	- Following the death of the proprietor of the White Rock School in Hastings, Crowley is transferred to a school for sons of the Plymouth Brethren, located at 51 Bateman Street, Cambridge. Extracurricular activities at the school were rigorously religious. Although the boys played cricket, scoring was forbidden lest they commit the sin of emulation. Prayers, ceremonies, meetings, Bible readings, and sermons filled each Sunday, with only two hours allocated for other activities, such as reading books sanctioned for Sundays. Contrary to what one might believe, Crowley seemed happy at the schools and excelled in academics, and received the Selbourne prize for being at the top of his class in “religious knowledge, classics and French.” [56]

— January —

Saturday, 10 January 1885

Current Events:

- George Cecil Jones is 12 years old.

Thursday, 22 January 1885

	- Karl Germer is born in Eberfeld, Germany. [1]
	- Karl Germer is born in Eberfeld, Germany. [1]

— February —

Wednesday, 18 February 1885

Current Events:

- Mark Twain publishes the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

Saturday, 21 February 1885

Current Events:

- The Washington Monument is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

Thursday, 26 February 1885

Current Events:

- The Berlin Conference gives Nigeria to Great Britain.

— March —

Wednesday, 4 March 1885

Current Events:

- Grover Cleveland is inaugurated as U.S. president.

Saturday, 14 March 1885

Current Events:

- Gilbert & Sullivan's opera Mikado premieres in London.

Saturday, 21 March 1885

Current Events:

- Jane Wolfe is 10 years old.

— April —

Thursday, 9 April 1885

Current Events:

- Leah Hirsig is 2 years old.

— May —

Wednesday, 6 May 1885

Current Events:

- Victor B. Neuburg is 2 years old.

Tuesday, 19 May 1885

Current Events:

- Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts, begins the first mass production of shoes.

— June —

Tuesday, 9 June 1885

	- Wilfred Talbot Smith is born at 12:40 a.m. in Tonbridge, Kent, England.

Wednesday, 17 June 1885

Current Events:

- The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City aboard a French ship.

Tuesday, 23 June 1885

Current Events:

- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

— July —

Thursday, 23 July 1885

Current Events:

- Rose Kelly is 11 years old.

— August —

Thursday, 13 August 1885

Current Events:

- Frieda Harris is 8 years old.

Monday, 17 August 1885

Current Events:

- Edward Crowley is 56 years old.

Saturday, 29 August 1885

Current Events:

- Gottlieb Daimler receives a German patent for a motorcycle.

— September —

Tuesday, 1 September 1885

Current Events:

- J.F.C. Fuller is 7 years old.

Friday, 4 September 1885

Current Events:

- The first cafeteria opens in New York City.

Friday, 18 September 1885

Current Events:

- Riots break out in Montreal, Canada, to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.

Tuesday, 29 September 1885

Current Events:

- First practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.

— October —

Monday, 12 October 1885

	- Crowley is 10 years old.
	- Crowley is 10 years old.

Sunday, 25 October 1885

Current Events:

- Johannes Brahms conducts the premiere of his 4th Symphony in E, Op. 98, in Meiningen, Germany.

— November —

Tuesday, 10 November 1885

Current Events:

- German engineer, Gottlieb Daimler, unveils the world's first motorcycle.

Wednesday, 11 November 1885

Current Events:

- General George S. Patton is born.

— December —

Tuesday, 8 December 1885

Current Events:

- Allan Bennett is 13 years old

Thursday, 17 December 1885

Current Events:

- Louis Wilkinson is 4 years old.