Timeline July 1885

Events in July 1885 3

• 1822 – 1885 Ulysses S. Grant 18th President — Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant (Apr 27, 1822 – Jul 23, 1885) was the 18th President 1869-1877 and commanding general of the Union Army in the Civil War. His presidency was marked by Reconstruction and a series of corruption scandals.
• 1885 Wimbledon 1885 Men: William Renshaw · Women: Maud Watson Renshaw's 5th title. Maud Watson defended her women's crown.
• 1885 Pasteur administers first rabies vaccine to a human Joseph Meister becomes the first person successfully treated for rabies On 6 July 1885, Louis Pasteur treated nine-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by a rabid dog, with a series of injections of his experimental rabies vaccine. The boy survived, marking the first successful human application of a vaccine against rabies and a landmark in the history of immunology.