Timeline Saturday 7 November 1885

Events on Saturday 7 November 1885 2

• 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.