This is a list of important events the occured during 1985. Exact dates are listed when known.

• "We Are The World" is recorded by USA for Africa, America's response to the British "Do They Know It's Christmas"
• LIVE AID in London and Philadelphi, beamed around the world
• Crack coccaine starts to appear.
• Billy Joel marries Christie Brinkley... millions of men suddenly feel like they stand a chance with an attractive woman.
• Brussels, Belgium: 39 dead, 250 wounded during a soccer match between Liverpool and Juventus
• Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior is bombed by the French goverment during protests of it's nuclear testing in the Pacific
• Earthquake in Mexico / Volcano erupts in Colombia; 1000s killed
• Gorbachev becomes (the last) president of the Soviet Union
• New coke is introduced in April and quickly replaced with original Coke
• Titanic wreckage found and filmed by robotic camera in July
• Bernhard Goetz is charged with attempted murder
• Ethiopa blocks the airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jews.
• Hole in the ozone layer, first detected in 1977, is now indisputable.
• In October, the worlds largest atom smasher goes online in Illinois.
• Nintendo home entertainment system introduced.
• Extra second added to the calender year.
• Leaded gas is officially banned in the US
• Swedish premier Olaf Palme is assassinated.
• Rock 'n' Roll Hall of fame is opened.
• Rock Hudson, the first major public figure to die to AIDS, dies on October 2.
• Karen Ann Quinlan, coma patient, dies of pneumonia. She was the first person to die in the "right-to-die" controversy debate.