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35 unusual facts about 1884


1884 in the United States

November 4 – United States presidential election, 1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.

1884 Republican National Convention

The ticket lost in the election of 1884 to Democrats Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks.

1888 Democratic National Convention

Hendricks ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in 1876, but won the office when he ran again with Cleveland in 1884.

1972 Republican National Convention

It was the sixth and, to date, last time both the Republican and Democratic national party conventions were held in the same city; Chicago had hosted double conventions in 1884, 1932, 1944, and 1952, and Philadelphia in 1948.

Absolom M. West

For that party and for the Anti-Monopoly Party, West was a candidate for Vice President on the ticket of Benjamin Franklin Butler in 1884.

Albert Hobbs

In 1884, he ran for presidential elector on the Republican ticket (pledged to James G. Blaine), but New York was carried by Democrat Grover Cleveland.

Belshazzar

During the 1884 United States presidential campaign, Republican candidate James G. Blaine dined at a New York City restaurant with some wealthy business executives including "Commodore" Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, etc.

Belva Ann Lockwood

She ran in the presidential elections of 1884 and 1888.

Lockwood ran for president in 1884 and 1888 on the ticket of the National Equal Rights Party and was the first woman to appear on official ballots.

Blaine Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania

It is named after former United States Secretary of State and Republican candidate for the 1884 presidential election, James G. Blaine.

Blaine, Washington

Blaine was officially incorporated on May 20, 1890, and was named after James G. Blaine (1830−1893), who was a U.S. senator from the state of Maine, Secretary of State, and, in 1884, the unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate.

Conrad N. Jordan

A Democrat, Jordan supported Grover Cleveland in the 1884 presidential election and worked with the campaign team drawing up plans to reform the United States Department of the Treasury.

Edward Parke Custis Lewis

He was also a delegate to the 1880 Democratic National Convention and a member of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee in 1884, when he was active in the presidential campaign of Grover Cleveland.

Edwin Warfield

During the 1884 Presidential election, Warfield made significant contributions to the campaign of President Grover Cleveland in Maryland.

General Conference Mennonite Church

Jansen was elected alternate delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention and was a delegate-at-large to the 1896 convention that nominated William McKinley.

Giannino Castiglioni

Giannino Castiglioni * in 1884 in Milan Italy is an Italian Artist, and Medallist.

Grover Cleveland Presidential campaign, 1888

The Republican Party nominated former U.S. Senator Benjamin Harrison (from the swing state of Indiana) to run against Cleveland in 1888 after 1884 Republican Presidential nominee James G. Blaine (who lost to Cleveland by a razor-thin margin) refused to run again and after several other candidates failed to win enough support.

John Rugee

He was also a Presidential Elector for the 1884 United States Presidential Election.

John S. Marmaduke

Undeterred, Marmaduke campaigned four years later for Governor of Missouri at a time when public opinion had changed, and railroad reform and regulation became more in vogue.

Ku Klux Klan in Maine

Blaine’s run for the US Presidency in 1884 is generally credited with having been defeated by Irish-Catholic voters angered when a prominent Blaine supporter referred to Democrats as “the party of rum, Romanism, and rebellion”.

Lewis Samuel Partridge

In 1884 he served as President of Vermont’s Cleveland and Hendricks Club, and when Cleveland took office in 1885 Partridge was again appointed Norwich’s Postmaster.

Lo Pan Temple

First built in 1884, it is now classified as a Grade I historic building, and is also part of the Central and Western Heritage Trail ─ The Western District and the Peak Route.

Marietta Stow

She and Clara S. Foltz nominated Belva Ann Lockwood for President of the United States, and Stow ended up supporting her on the ticket of the National Equal Rights Party as their Vice Presidential candidate in the United States presidential election, 1884.

National University School of Law

She was one of the first women to run for president, in 1884 and 1888.

Shermanesque statement

The term derives from the Sherman pledge, a remark made by American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman when he was being considered as a possible Republican candidate for the presidential election of 1884.

Thomas F. Grady

During the following presidential campaign, Grady supported Benjamin F. Butler, the candidate of the Greenback and Anti-Monopoly parties.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1884

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1884 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 4, 1884.

United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1894

In the previous election, the Republican Party had not run any candidates in Florida, with the Democratic Party having been dominant in the state since 1884.

United States presidential election in California, 1884

The 1884 United States presidential election in California refers to how California participated in the 1884 United States presidential election.

United States presidential election in New York, 1884

All contemporary 38 states were part of the 1884 United States presidential election.

Cleveland's narrow victory in his home state, with its 36 electoral votes, proved decisive in clinching him the 1884 election and allowing him to win the presidency.

United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, 1884

The 1884 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election.

United States Senate elections, 1884

The United States Senate election of 1884 was an election which had the Republican Party gain four seats in the United States Senate, and which coincided with the presidential election of 1884.

White House Press Secretary

The media had changed significantly by 1884, when Grover Cleveland was elected as President of the United States.

William M. Bunn

Bunn's appointment came as a consequence of the 1884 presidential election.


1884–85 in English football

Note – Some sources credit England's third goal as a Joe Lofthouse goal, but match reports clearly state an Eames own goal.

Adolphe Danziger De Castro

In 1883 he emigrated to the U.S.A., where he first lived as a journalist and teacher in St. Louis and Vincennes (IN), before settling in San Francisco in November 1884, where he practiced as a dentist and free-lance journalist until 1900.

Barry Yelverton, 3rd Viscount Avonmore

Adelaide Matilda Yelverton (1821–1884), married 1860, Lt-Gen Humphrey Lyons, Indian Army

Beer in the Netherlands

The monks that run the Koningshoeven Brewery in Berkel-Enschot brew several beers, mostly branded La Trappe, and has been active since 1884, while the De Kievit brewery of the Zundert abbey was only founded in 2013 and brews a beer named Zundert.

Carlo Alberto Castigliano

Carlo Alberto Castigliano (9 November 1847, Asti – 25 October 1884, Milan) was an Italian mathematician and physicist known for Castigliano's method for determining displacements in a linear-elastic system based on the partial derivatives of strain energy.

Charles R. Skinner

He served as member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1884.

Chichibu District, Saitama

1884: The Chichibu Incident: uprising of impoverished peasants under the influence of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement.

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia

This prompted the United States to establish the Bureau of Animal Industry, set up in 1884 to eradicate the disease, which it succeeded in doing.

County Borough of Warley

This was united as the civil parish of Warley in 1884, but later divided between the boroughs of Oldbury and Smethwick (Warley Woods).

Edmund Filmer

Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet (1835–1886), MP for West Kent 1859–1865 and Mid Kent 1880–1884

Édouard Houssin

1884 - Monument Dupleix, project for the monument to Dupleix at Landrecies, plaster molding, Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai

Edward Brocklehurst Fielden

He married firstly, in 1884, Mary Ellen (died 1902), a daughter of Thomas Knowles of Darn Hall, Cheshire, who was M.P. for Wigan, by whom he had three sons and one daughter.

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont

His grandson, Lammot du Pont I (1831–1884), was the first president of the United States Gunpowder Trade Association, popularly known as the Powder Trust.

Eric Butler-Henderson

Born Eric Brand Henderson on 26 September 1884 at Norwood Green in Middlesex, the son of Alexander and Jane Henderson, his father was a stock broker.

Filadelfo Simi

In 1883, he was nominated a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy; he became Honorary Academic In Florence (1884), Bologna (1888) and the Brera Academy in Milan (1895).

Friendly, West Virginia

The 1884 Heirloom tomato variety was said to be discovered by James Lyde Williamson growing in a pile of flood debris along the Ohio River near Friendly, after the Great Flood of 1884.

George Tankard Garrison

He successfully contested the election of Robert M. Mayo to the Forty-eighth Congress and served from March 20, 1884, to March 3, 1885.

Harriet Moore

Harriet Moore (1829-1884), is formally known as Lady Bowell, the Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada and wife of Mackenzie Bowell, the fifth Prime Minister of Canada.

Hastings, New Zealand

Exactly who chose the name has been disputed, although Thomas Tanner claimed that it was him (see Hawke's Bay Herald report 1 February 1884) and that the choice was inspired by his reading the trial of Warren Hastings.

Heggbach Abbey

In 1875 the property was bought by Prince Franz von Waldburg zu Wolfegg und Waldsee who left the buildings to Franciscan sisters from the convent in Reute in 1884.

Helmeted Guineafowl

N. m. marungensis (Schalow, 1884) - Marungu Helmeted Guineafowl - south Congo Basin to western Angola and Zambia

Inquisivi

On November 2, 1884, General Narciso Campero officially announced the city as the capital of the new Inquisivi Province.

Ivan Volansky

He arrived in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania in 1884 after Ukrainian immigrants petitioned the Metropolitan of Lviv for their own priest.

James Carson

James Harvey Carson (1808–1884), Virginia politician and militia general (Confederate)

James Charles Harris

Sir James Charles Harris, KCVO, was British Consul at Nice from 1884 until 1901.

Jean-Gaspard Deburau

Albert Giraud's Pierrot lunaire (1884) marked a watershed in the moon-maddening of Pierrot, as did the song-cycle that Arnold Schoenberg derived from it (1912).

Joel Adams

Joel's great grandson Warren Adams (1838-1884) was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Confederate States Army and was in command of the First South Carolina Infantry Regiment at Battery Wagner.

John Irwin

John N. Irwin (1847–1905), American politician, governor of Idaho Territory, 1883–1884, and Arizona Territory, 1890–1892

Joseph Finch Fenn

He died on 22 July 1884, and was buried in his family vault in the churchyard of Leckhampton, near Cheltenham.

Kingcraft

When Lord Falmouth decided to dispose of all his horses in 1884 Kingcraft was bought for 500 guineas by Lord Rossmore.

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Other teaching hospitals which are part of the same NHS trust are: St Mary's Hospital, Manchester (founded 1790), the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (1814), and the University Dental Hospital of Manchester (1884); Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (1829).

Matthew Henry Davies

They produced a family of 6 children - Arnold Mercer Davies 1876, Marion Agnes Davies 1877, Henry Gascoigne Davies 1879, Beatrice Elizabeth Davies 1880, Muriel Kate Davies 1882, and Olive Blanche Davies 1884.

North Borneo

The company subsequently acquired further sovereign and territorial rights from the sultan of Brunei, expanding the territory under control to the Putatan river (May 1884), the Padas district (November 1884), the Kawang river (February 1885), the Mantanani Islands (April 1885), and additional minor Padas territories (March 1898).

Panait

Panait Istrati (1884–1935), Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression

Papplewick Pumping Station

Papplewick Pumping Station, in the Nottinghamshire village of Papplewick, was built by Nottingham Corporation Water Department between 1881 and 1884 to pump water from the Bunter sandstone to provide drinking water to the City of Nottingham, in England.

Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato

Princess and Countess Elena Pavlovna Demidova (Saint Petersburg, 10 June 1884 - Sesto Fiorentino, 4 April 1959), married firstly in Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1903 (divorced in 1907) Count Alexander Pavlovich Shuvalov (Vartemiagui, 7 September 1881 - London, 13 August 1935) and married secondly in Dresden in June 1907 Nikolai Alexeievich Pavlov (Tambov, 9 May 1866 - Vanves, 31 January 1934))

Peter Joseph Baltes

Long suffering from diseases of the kidneys, bladder, and liver, Baltes was unable to attend the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884 due to ill health.

Rhinotyphlops schinzi

The specific name, schinzi, is in honor of "Herr Dr. Hans Schinz", who collected the first specimens in 1884 & 1885 in the Kalahari Desert.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester

Denis Mary Bradley (18 April 1884 Appointed - 13 December 1903 Died)

Salati

Armando Salati (1884–1963), Italian Vice Consul to the United States

Samuel Decius Hubbard

He moved to Mondovi in Buffalo County in 1878, and was elected a fourth time to the Assembly in 1884 for Buffalo County as a Republican, with 1,604 votes to 1,177 for Democratic former Assemblyman George Cowie.

San Francisco Polytechnic High School

Located at 701 Frederick Street, across from Kezar Stadium, the school was in operation from 1884 until 1973.

Sir Francis Layland-Barratt, 1st Baronet

He married in 1884, Frances Layland (Lady of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, CBE 1920) of Stonehouse, Wallasey.

St. Labre Indian Catholic High School

Land was purchased by the Bishop, and on March 29, 1884, St. Labre Indian School, named for St. Benedict Joseph Labre, became a reality.

Streptocarpus

In 1884, seed was collected in the mountains of the Transvaal gold fields, and sent to Kew by Mr E. G. Dunn of Claremont, Cape Town.

Suffield, Alberta

Established by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1884, Suffield was named after Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield who married in 1854, Cecilia Annetta, the sister of Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke, who assisted in financing the railway.

Tuyên Quang

The French post at Tuyên Quang (Sino-Vietnamese: 宣光) was defended for four months against 12,000 troops of the Yunnan Army and the Black Flag Army by two companies of the French Foreign Legion during the Sino-French War (August 1884 to April 1885).

Uig Tower

In 1884 Fraser attempted to evict a family at Garafad in Staffin during a rent strike.

West Town, Peterborough

Also transferred were Thorpe Hall (maternity 1943–1970), The Gables (maternity 1947–1970), the Smallpox Hospital (1884–1970), Isolation Hospital (1901–1981), and St. John's Close (mentally ill c.1930–1971).

William Holms

William Holms (born 5 February 1827) was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1884.