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| 1884 |
| | | Bismarck invites the European powers to a West Africa Conference in Berlin | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Spain begins to colonize the Western Sahara, subsequently known as the Spanish Sahara | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland wins the US presidental election, defeating Republican James G. Blaine | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Botha and his Boer followers are rewarded by Dinizulu with a large tract of land, in which they establish their own Boer republic | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Oxford University Press publishes the A volume of its New English Dictionary, which will take 37 years to reach Z | |
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| 1885 |
| | | In his novel The Rise of Silas Lapham US author William Dean Howells follows the fortunes of a self-made man in Boston | |
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| 1885 |
| | | German engineer Karl Friedrich Benz builds the Tri-Star, a three-wheeled vehicle with an internal combustion that is considered the first commercial automobile | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Bismarck grants Karl Peters a charter to rule a German protectorate in east Africa | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Britain annexes Bechuanaland as a protectorate, to secure the route north from the Cape into central Africa | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Explorer and orientalist Richard Burton begins publication of his multi-volume translation from the Arabic of The Arabian Nights | |
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