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6 unusual facts about 1885


Arthur Kekewich

In 1880 he ran unsuccessfully as a Conservative candidate in Coventry, and in 1885 he ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate in Barnstaple.

Block Communications

The company was founded in 1900 in New York City when Paul Block, a German immigrant who came to the United States fifteen years prior, formed an ad representation firm for newspapers.

Edmund Broughton Barnard

At the 1885 general election he was Liberal candidate in Epping; in 1886 he stood in Maldon and then in Kidderminster at the general election of 1900.

Gershom Stewart

At the general election in January 1910 Stewart stood as the Conservative candidate for the Wirral, a seat which had been held by the Conservatives from its creation in 1885 until won by the Liberals in 1906.

John Frederick Cheetham

He held that seat for five years, until the constituency was abolished at the 1885 general election, when he stood unsuccessfully in the new High Peak constituency, losing to the Conservative Party candidate William Sidebottom by only 9 votes (0.2% of the total).

William Somervell

The seat had been Liberal held since its creation for the 1885 general election and became vacant on the death of the sitting MP, Sir Swire Smith on 16 March 1918.


Albert Augustus Isaacs

Of major note is his biography of the Reverend Henry Aaron Stern (1820–1885), published in 1886, who for more than forty years was a missionary amongst the Jews.

Allen Young

In 1885 Sir Allen Young was master of the hospital ship Stella supporting British military actions in the Soudan.

Amalie Dietrich

She was employed as a naturalist by Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy (1818 - 1885), a wealthy shipping magnate who at the time was establishing the Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg.

Anson Stager

Anson Stager (April 20, 1825 - March 26, 1885) was the co-founder of Western Union, the first president of Western Electric Manufacturing Company and Union Army general, where he was head of the Military Telegraph Department during the Civil War.

Avery Craven

Avery Odelle Craven (August 12, 1885 near Ackworth, Iowa – January 21, 1980, Chesterton, Indiana) was a historian who specialized in the study of the nineteenth-century United States and the American Civil War.

Billy Hague

William "Billy" Robert Hague (born April 9, 1885 in London, England - September 9, 1969) was a professional ice hockey goaltender.

Boston Daily Advertiser

In William Dean Howells' 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham, Bromfield Corey reads The Boston Daily Advertiser.

Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway

The first terminus was completed in 1885 and on 19 September 1925 a foundation stone for the rebuilding of the terminus was laid by the Prince of Wales, later Duke of Windsor, during his official visit to Argentina.

Bulgarians in Germany

After the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, the German Empire continued to be a centre of higher education for Bulgarians, and hundreds of Bulgarian students were sent to Germany on state scholarships by the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia (pre-1885).

Calculus of variations

Other valuable treatises and memoirs have been written by Strauch (1849), Jellett (1850), Otto Hesse (1857), Alfred Clebsch (1858), and Carll (1885), but perhaps the most important work of the century is that of Weierstrass.

Cæsar Clement

Joseph Gillow, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath. (London, 1885), I, 497-8;

Charles Howard-Bury

A member of the Howard family, he was born at Charleville Castle, King's County, Ireland, the only son of Captain Kenneth Howard-Bury (1846–1885), son of the Honourable James Howard.

Charles Raven

Charles E. Raven (1885-1964), English theologian, academic and pacifist

Clementine Deymann

In 1885 and in 1891 Father Clementine was elected definitor of the Franciscan province of the Sacred Heart; in 1886 he was made superior of the boys' orphanage at Watsonville, California.

Confetti

Scientific American recorded the throwing of paper confetti (plain shredded paper) at the 1885 New Year's Eve in Paris.

Conrad Ansorge

He was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 and 1886.

Cornelius Wendell Wickersham

Cornelius Wendell Wickersham was born on June 25, 1885 in Greenwich, Connecticut as a son of George W. Wickersham, an American lawyer and future United States Attorney General.

Cyprian Bridge Island

The island is named after Major Cyprian Bridge (1807-1885) who was a British army officer, particularly famed for his activities in the Flagstaff War, which was fought against the Māori in New Zealand in 1845.

Edgington

Edgington v Fitzmaurice (1885) 29 Ch D 459 is an English contract law case, concerning misrepresentation

Frederick Vosper

Few other details of his early life are available, but in 1885 he was at Devonport serving with the Royal Navy on the training ship Lion.

G. P. Pillai

The formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 led to increased agitation for Indian independence from British rule.

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.

Henry Martyn Lazelle

After serving as an inspector for the Division of the Pacific and the Department of the Columbia, Lazelle represented the U. S. Army as an observer during the maneuvers of the British Army in India from November 1885 to March 1886.

Hristo G. Danov

As the war led to Bulgaria's liberation, Danov had his printing office moved from Vienna to Plovdiv (which in 1878 became the capital of autonomous Eastern Rumelia, which united with the Principality of Bulgaria in 1885).

James Kimbrough Jones

Jones was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 4, 1885); he was re-elected to the Forty-ninth but tendered his resignation on February 19, 1885, having been elected to the United States Senate that year.

Joseph de Marliave

Some of his book on Beethoven was a translation and paraphrase of the 1885 book in German by Theodor Helm.

Karol Lanckoroński

In 1885-86 he organised his own exploratory mission to Pamphylia and Pisidia.

Kopparapu

Kopparapu Sodara Kavulu consists of Kopparapu Venkata Subbaraya Kavi (1885 - 1932) and Kopparapu Venkataramana Kavi (1887 - 1942).

Least Bittern

A dark rufous morph, "neoxenus", termed "Cory's Bittern" or "Cory's Least Bittern" was originally described by Cory as a separate species in 1885, from a specimen collected on or near the Caloosahatchee River, near Lake Okeechobee, in southwest Florida; Cory stated that the specimen was "without doubt perfectly distinct from any other known species".

Lewis Beach

Elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, Beach was a U. S. Representative for the fourteenth district of New York from March 4, 1881 to March 3, 1885.

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

Alec had completed in 1881 his MA with Honours at the University of Aberdeen and in 1885 was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Mina Minovici

In 1885 he started his forensic training in Paris with Professor Paul Brouardel and soon after he became his assistant.

Nereus Rowing Club

The Amsterdam Student Rowing Club (ASR) Nereus, (Dutch De Amsterdamsche Studenten Roeivereeniging (ASR) Nereus) is a rowing club in Amsterdam, Holland which was founded in 1885 by Mr. J. Schölvinck as a subsidiary organization of The Corps, an Amsterdam student fraternity.

Pertwee

Roland Pertwee (1885-1963), English writer and actor, father of Jon and Michael and uncle of Bill

Postage stamps and postal history of Costa Rica

Costa Rican stamps were issued overprinted "Guanacaste" in 1885-89 following war with Nicaragua over the sovereignty of Guanacaste.

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.

Sébastien Lespès

In late March 1885, in the Pescadores Campaign, Courbet took personal command of the naval expedition.

Seth C. Moffatt

He was re-elected in 1886 to the 50th Congress, serving from March 4, 1885 until his death at the age of forty-six in Washington, D.C. Henry W. Seymour was elected on February 14, 1888, to fill the vacancy caused by his death.

Steamboats of Yaquina Bay and Yaquina River

By 1885, the Oregon Pacific Railroad had been built from the Willamette Valley all the way through to Yaquina City.

Stockholm–Roslagens Järnvägar

In 1885 the line from Stockholm East Station (Stockholm) to Rimbo opened, what is now the longest part of Roslagsbanan and originally built and run by the private enterprise Stockholm-Rimbo Järnväg (SRJ).

Tēvita ʻUnga

(3 August 1854 – 11 March 1885), served as Governor of Haʻapai and Vavaʻu from 1877 to 1885.

Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques

and the repertoire developed more in the field of operetta, La fille de Madame Angot by Charles Lecocq in 1873, Les cloches de Corneville by Robert Planquette in 1877, Madame Favart, by Jacques Offenbach in 1878, La fille du tambour-major by Offenbach in 1879, La fauvette du temple by André Messager in 1885 and La Béarnaise by Messager in 1887 being among the premieres seen at the theatre.

Thomas Hartmann

Thomas de Hartmann (1885–1956), Russian composer and associate of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff

Thomas Hutchinson

Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1820–1885) Anglo-Irish surgeon, explorer, and writer

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).

Vilkitsky

Boris Vilkitsky (1885-1961), a Russian Arctic explorer, son of above

Vincenzo Scaramuzza

Vincenzo Scaramuzza (also known as Vicente Scaramuzza; 1885 – 1968) was an Italian Argentine pianist and music teacher.

Wilhelm Beyer

Wilhelm Beyer (born 22 March 1885 in Hohenmölsen died 11 April 1945 in Schermcke) was a German politician and functionary of the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

William Candidus

Subsequently he studied under Rouchetti (Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti?), of Milan, and in 1880 became a member of the opera at Frankfort am Main, where he remained until the autumn of 1885, when he joined the American Opera Company.

Women's Centennial Congress

John G. Reid, Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979: a historian's biography, University of Toronto Press, 2005, page 97


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