1885 in Argentina

Incumbents

• President: Julio Argentino Roca
• Vice President: Francisco Bernabé Madero

  Events

• June – Former president Nicolás Avellaneda travels to France with his wife, seeking medical treatment for nephritis. The treatment is unsuccessful and 48-year-old Avellaneda, Argentina's youngest-ever president, dies at sea on the return journey.
• 19 December – The city of Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, is established, and a naval base created, to increase Argentine control over southern Patagonia.

  Births

• 7 January – Ernesto Brown, footballer
• 7 September – José Durand Laguna, football manager

  Deaths

• August – Saturnino María Laspiur, lawyer and politician
• 13 September – Roque Ferreyra, politician
• 24 November – Nicolás Avellaneda, 8th President of Argentina