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1985
North America
Canada
American shows begin to be shot in Vancouver, due to favourable (financial) conditions (compared to California). Indeed, the British Columbia Provincial Government debates on whether to make it even more favourable.


United States
Apple releases the Macintosh, its first personal computer with a Graphical User Interface based OS.

Back to the Future tops the box office numbers by the end of the year.


Mexico
Sinoloa joins Mexico as a state early in the year, following a referendum the previous year


South America
Uruguay leaves the Commonwealth.

The Falklands War concludes with Argentina conceding defeat.



Europe
Ireland, United Kingdom, Southern England
Wessex and Mercia-Northumberland are merged into Mercia-Wessex-Northumberland. The justification being centralising the administration in Nottingham would bring about cost savings.

Munster joins Ireland.

Ireland joins the Northern European Economic Community later in the year.

Eastern Europe
Treaty of Odesa. The United Kingdom gives Odesa to Ukraine. This completes the UK’s withdrawal from the Black Sea.


Africa
Cameroon gains independence from Southern England.

In South Africa, Shillingsworth discovers a tablet that indicates that Christians arrived in the region earlier than it was conventionally thought. (And then she has to rush back to London to attend her mentor's funeral...)


Asia
Buryatia and Zabaykalsky are annexed by Russia.

India annexes Nepal due to a succession crisis threatening to devolve into a civil war. Given that the Nepalese Government was Pro-China, Beijing recalls their Ambassador for a few months…