This is a list of events in the year 1885 of the 19th Century.
Bellairs Corpus[]
- The book, Forty Years Among the Magicians..., is published (The Specter from the Magician's Museum, 44, 72).
- Beginning in this year (and continuing into the next), Dr. Thanatos returns for his "mice", later bilking Marcus Childermass out of some money (The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder, 22, 63).
- December 1
- Jedediah Clabbernong writes an entry in his journal, his last: "It comes" (The Beast under the Wizard's Bridge, 67).
- December 21
- Meteor lands on Clabbernong Farm in Capharnaum County, the same night Jedediah Clabbernong dies (The Beast under the Wizard's Bridge, 11, 33, 42).
- December 22
- New Zebedee Chronicle article about the meteor in New Zebedee (The Beast under the Wizard's Bridge, 43).
- December 23
- Jedediah Clabbernong's brief obituary is the New Zebedee Chronicle (The Beast under the Wizard's Bridge, 45).