* Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington ( 1807 – 1884 ), British soldier and nobleman

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

* 1884 – Arthur Vandenberg, United States Senator from Michigan ( d. 1951 )

* 1884 – Arthur Rosenkampff, American gymnast ( d. 1952 )

* April 22 – Arthur Edmund Carewe, Armenian-American actor ( b. 1884 )

US President Chester A. Arthur appointed him as one of the commissioners to the National Conference of Electricians, which convened in Philadelphia in September of 1884, and Gibbs presided over one of its sessions.

The law offended machine politicians within the Republican Party and did not prove to be enough for the party's reformers ; hence, Arthur lost popularity within the Republican Party and was unable to win the party's Presidential nomination at the 1884 Republican National Convention.

The US established the Tongue River Indian Reservation, now named the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, of by the executive order of President Chester A. Arthur November 16, 1884.

Of the several attempts at defining the essence of symbolism, perhaps none was more influential than Paul Verlaine's 1884 publication of a series of essays on Tristan Corbière, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Gérard de Nerval, and " Pauvre Lelian " (" Poor Lelian ", an anagram of Paul Verlaine's own name ), each of whom Verlaine numbered among the poètes maudits, " accursed poets.

It was renamed in 1884 after local store-owner and businessman Arthur Carson, who built his first store there in 1864.

Smart ; 1883, Arthur M. Peck ; 1884, Andrew J.

On December 16, 1884, U. S. president Chester Arthur opened the Fair via telegraph ( two weeks behind schedule ).

A dirigible, La France, capable of flying at around had been successfully flown in 1884 by Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs, but their experiments had not progressed due to a lack of funding.

In a similar vein, Verlaine used the expression poète maudit (" cursed poet ") in 1884 to refer to a number of poets like Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Aloysius Bertrand, Comte de Lautréamont or Alice de Chambrier, who had fought against poetic conventions and suffered social rebuke or were ignored by the critics.

The Cavill family of " Swimming Professor " Richmond Theophilus " Dick " Cavill ( 1884 – 1938 ) contributed significantly to the development of the sport of swimming ; his son Arthur is credited by sports journalist W. F.

In 1884, Hanna sought election as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in support of the presidential bid of Senator Sherman ( as he was by then )— President Chester A. Arthur, Garfield's successor, was seeking re-nomination, but was opposed by a number of other Republicans Hanna supported Sherman as the candidate favored the gold standard and worked to solve the problems of business, and because he was from Ohio.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

* In 1884 – 1885, when Garfield's successor, Chester A. Arthur, was suffering the effects of the Bright's disease that would take his life less than two years after he left office.

Other comic operas by Grossmith during these years included Mr Guffin ’ s Elopement ( 1882 ) and A Peculiar Case ( 1884, both with libretti by Arthur Law ) and The Real Case of Hide and Seekyll ( 1886 ).

In March 1884, with the help of President Chester A. Arthur and Secretary of State Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, the Cardinal helped save the Pontifical North American College from spoilation by the Italian government.

** D. p. m. forma leucogyne, named by Arthur G. Butler in 1884

* Arthur Chevrolet ( 1884 – 1946 ), race car driver and co-founder of the Frontenac Motor Corporation with brothers Louis and Gaston.

Much Ado about Nothing ( 1882 ) was followed by Twelfth Night ( 1884 ); an adaptation of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield by W. G. Wills ( 1885 ); Faust ( 1886 ); Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ); The Dead Heart, by Watts Phillips ( 1889 ); Ravenswood by Herman, and Merivales ' dramatic version of Scott's Bride of Lammermoor ( 1890 ).

Lieutenant-General Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington KG, PC ( 3 February 1807 – 13 August 1884 ), styled Lord Douro between 1812 and 1814 and Marquess of Douro between 1814 and 1852, was a British soldier and politician.

See also H. Schuster, F. von Hagedorn und seine Bedeutung für die deutsche Literatur ( Leipzig, 1882 ); W. Eigenbrodt, Hagedorn und die Erzählung in Reimversen ( Berlin, 1884 ).

He authored the book Functions of the Marginal Convolutions ( 1884 ) and, as a co-author, Experiments upon the Functions of the Cerebral Cortex ( 1888 ) and Alcohol and the Human Body ( 1902 ).

Alfons Maria Jakob ( 2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg / Bavaria – 17 October 1931, Hamburg ) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology.

In 1884, he was created by Pope Leo XIII Archbishop of Caesarea in partibus and sent to India as an Apostolic Delegate to report on the establishment of the hierarchy there.

* 1884 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island ( now Liberty Island ) in New York Harbor.

*" Oh My Darling, Clementine " ( 1884 ) is an American western folk ballad believed to have been based on another song called Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden ( 1863 ).

But by laying bare in 1884 the upper stratum of remains on the rock of Tiryns, Schliemann made a contribution to our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life which was amplified two years later by Christos Tsountas's discovery of the palace at Mycenae.

The first post office in the village opened on 28 July 1884.

During the European scramble for Africa, Queen Victoria signed a Treaty of Protection with the King and Chiefs of Akwa Akpa, known to Europeans as " Old Calabar ", on 10 September 1884.

Nigeria relied largely on Anglo-German correspondence dating from 1885 as well as treaties between the colonial powers and the indigenous rulers in the area, particularly the 1884 Treaty of Protection.

They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

During the era Kingdom of Serbia, six censuses were conducted starting on 1884 and the last one being in 1910.

Gini was born on May 23, 1884, in Motta di Livenza, near Treviso, into an old landed family.

In 1884 he met Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, both of whom relied on a more “ scientific ” theory of painting by using very small patches of pure colors to create the illusion of blended colors and shading when viewed from a distance.

Instead the distinction went to the 1884 route from Archway to Highgate, north London, which used a continuous cable and grip system on the 1 in 11 ( 9 %) climb of Highgate Hill.

In 1884 at the University of Vienna he attended the lectures of Franz Brentano on philosophy and philosophical psychology.

Svante Arrhenius published his thesis in 1884 on Recherches sur la conductibilité galvanique des électrolytes ( Investigations on the galvanic conductivity of electrolytes ).

Such movements caused the Emancipation of enslaved African-Brazilians in Ceará on March 25, 1884, four years before slavery was eradicated from the country as a whole.

The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.

Cantor's recurring bouts of depression from 1884 to the end of his life have been blamed on the hostile attitude of many of his contemporaries, though some have explained these episodes as probable manifestations of a bipolar disorder.

Criticism of his work weighed on his mind: every one of the fifty-two letters he wrote to Mittag-Leffler in 1884 mentioned Kronecker.

The design was exhibited at the Exhibition of Decorative Arts in the autumn of 1884, and on 30 March 1885 Eiffel read a paper on the project to the Société des Ingiénieurs Civils.

As the United Kingdom grew into an advanced maritime nation, British mariners kept at least one chronometer on GMT in order to calculate their longitude from the Greenwich meridian, which was by convention considered to have longitude zero degrees ( this convention was internationally adopted in the International Meridian Conference of 1884 ).

In 1876 the family moved into one of the neighbouring houses, Ingle Lodge, and it was here that the couple's third son, Gerald Brosseau Gardner, was born on Friday 13 June 1884.

His first major work, a textbook on calculus, was published in 1884 and was credited to Genocchi.