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- Frederick Ayers agent of American Missionray Assocation arrives in Atlanta to begin formal education for African-Americans.
- Formal education for African- Americans begins in Atlanta at the Walton Spring School
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| Edmund Asa Ware appointed Superintendent of schools for the AMA and lays foundation for Atlanta University |
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- State of Georgia grants a charter to Atlanta University on October 16. The motto "I will Find A Way or Make One" is chosen.
- Board of Trustees elect Edmund Ware as the first president of Atlanta U.
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| Atlanta University formally opens as a normal school with 89 students. |
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| The library for Atlanta University is initiated with a gift of 300 books from the Reverend Giles Pease |
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| A board of visitors appointe dby a republican governor Rufus Bullock conducts a three-day examination for Atlanta University students in latin, greek, algebra, geometry, and rhetoric. |
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Atlanta University becomes the seventh African-American college to establish a college department.
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June 23, four young women recieve certificates of graduation. - Turner - Outlaw - Laney - Cleveland |
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| Georgia Legislature passed a bill that provided an annual appropriation of $8,000 to the university |
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| June 22, six youngmen become the first class to graduate from the College Department. |
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| The first transfer students, eight African Americans previously attending University of South Carolina, enter Atlanta University and are admitted on probation to the junior class. |
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| The Phi Kappa Society is organized by hte males of Atlanta University. |
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| Uncle Toms Cabin is the most popular book in the library. |
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| The Atlanta University Bulletin, for alumni and friends of the university begins publication. |
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| The knowles industrail building is completed. |
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| President Edmund Ware dies in Atlanta on September 25, 1885. and Horace M. Bumstead is appointed acting president. |
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| The University forfeits its rights to the annual state appropriation of $8,000 because it refused to comply with the terms of the Georgia Governor to require the university to deny admission to white students. |
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| The second charter renewing Atlanta Universitys incorporation is granted. |
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| Baseball becomes the most popular sport and the university demonstares near invincibility between 1890 and 1897 |
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