Timeline November 1885

Events in November 1885 6

• 1844 – 1885 Louis Riel (1844-1885) Died 16 November 1885, aged 41 Métis political leader who led two rebellions against the Canadian government in defense of Métis land rights and culture, founding the province of Manitoba in the process. Convicted of treason for leading the North-West Rebellion, he was hanged in Regina, and remains a deeply contested and symbolically important figure in Canadian history.
• 1857 – 1885 Alfonso XII of Spain (1857-1885) Died 25 November 1885, aged 27 King of Spain from 1874, he restored the Bourbon monarchy after a period of revolution and republican rule and presided over a period of relative political stability under the Constitution of 1876. He died of tuberculosis at the royal palace of El Pardo, leaving his pregnant wife to become regent for their unborn son, Alfonso XIII.
• 1885 Canadian Pacific Railway completed Last spike driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia On 7 November 1885, Canadian Pacific Railway director Donald Smith drove the last spike at Craigellachie, completing Canada's first transcontinental railway. The line fulfilled a promise made to British Columbia upon its entry into confederation and bound the young country together from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
• 1885 Third Anglo-Burmese War British forces conquer Upper Burma and depose King Thibaw British troops invaded the Kingdom of Ava in November 1885, advancing rapidly up the Irrawaddy River and capturing the capital Mandalay within two weeks. King Thibaw Min surrendered and was exiled, and Upper Burma was annexed to British India on 1 January 1886, completing Britain's conquest of Burma.
• 1885 Daimler builds the Reitwagen First internal combustion motorcycle is tested near Stuttgart Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach built the Petroleum Reitwagen, a wooden-framed vehicle powered by a single-cylinder gasoline engine, completing it in the autumn of 1885. Daimler's son rode it on a test run near Cannstatt in November, making it the first vehicle recognized as a motorcycle.
• 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War Serbia attacks Bulgaria over its unification with Eastern Rumelia King Milan of Serbia declared war on Bulgaria on 14 November 1885 after Bulgaria's unification with Eastern Rumelia upset the regional balance of power. Bulgarian forces repelled the invasion and won a decisive victory at the Battle of Slivnitsa before an armistice ended the fighting on 28 November.