1885 in India

Events in the year 1885 in India.

Incumbents

• Empress of India — Queen Victoria

Events

• 24 June — Lord Randolph Churchill becomes Secretary of State for India.
• 28 December — 72 Indian lawyers, academics and journalists gather in Bombay to form the Congress Party.

Births

• 14 February — Syed Zafarul Hasan, Muslim philosopher (d.1949).

Congress

1. 28 December — Formation of Indian National Congress
2. First President of Indian National Congress — W.C .Banerjee
3. First Secretary of Indian National Congress — A.O. Hume
4. Dadabbhai Naoroji gave the name Indian National Congress
5. Fist session of Indian National Congress was held at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay.
6. In its first session it had 72 members.