Pissarro then spent the next four years, from 1885 to 1888, practicing this more time-consuming and laborious technique, referred to as pointillism.

His next essay, opposite Ellen Terry at the Lyceum in 1888, fared better, playing for 150 performances.

Many considered the next team to leave Australia, that of 1888, was considered by many to be worst ever to do so.

* January 16 – The first Dutch ( and general ) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic ( the next Dutch general elections are held in 1888 ).

A Methodist circuit rider began visiting Everglade in 1888, and a Methodist minister became resident the next year, but he left after four years.

In 1888, the War Department took control of a tract of land next to the bay and added to it in 1897 and 1910.

He also acted from 1888 as chairman of the Northamptonshire county council, and continued to work with Gladstone and other liberal leaders in determining the shape of a home rule bill in the next liberal government.

The protectionists obtained a majority in both chambers in the next Riksdag in 1888.

Bart spent the next six years in San Quentin State Prison for robbery and was released January 23, 1888.

On his attestation papers, he claimed to be born in Montreal on Sept 18, 1888, and listed no next of kin, however when asked about his marital status, it appears some confusion may have taken place as the word ' yes ' was written, and then crossed out, then the word ' no ' was written, and then crossed out ultimately not clearly answering the question, leaving his marital status unclear to the military at the time of enlistment.

** 1888-1889 Franz Leopold Sonnenschein ( b. 1857-d. 1897 ); next, as it was since 14 April 1888 administratively part of the ( German ) Marshall Islands, it had mere Bezirksamtleute ( District officers ; 2 October 1888-1906 ), then, being since 1 April 1906 administratively part of German New Guinea, Stationsleiter (' Station Chiefs '; from 1911, subordinated to the administrators of Ponape district ) till 6 November 1914, finally the island was lost ( Australian administration, first by a military Commander, then under League of Nations mandate )

After completing his 5th Symphony in 1888, Tchaikovsky did not start thinking about his next symphony until April 1891, on his way to the United States.

The League expanded over the next 25 years as football boomed in England, from one division of twelve clubs in 1888, to two divisions by the 1892-93 season, with a total of 28 clubs and with the gradual addition of more clubs, a total of 40 by 1905-06.

The Langwarrin railway station was opened in 1888 next to the facility ; in the same year a failed attempt was made to sell allotments on a new township of Aldershot adjoining the reserve.

In order to combat the short-passing threat, the championship-winning Preston North End side of 1888 devised a more defensive 2 – 3 – 5 formation ( two defenders, three mid-fielders and five attackers ), which would become the standard formation for many teams for the best part of the next 40 years.

Situated next to the canal in the town centre is the Springfield Mill, built in 1888 as a lace mill and a reminder of Sandiacre's industrial heritage, now converted into a modern apartment complex.

Between 1888 and 1890 a loop in the tram line, which ran down Randwick Road ( now Anzac Parade ), was built to service the Ground and the Pastoral and Agricultural Society Ground ( later the RAS Showgrounds and now Fox Studios ) next door.

Two years later in 1888, Alf Taylor was elected to the United States House of Representatives ; he was re-elected for the next two terms as well, and served from 1889 to 1895.

Captiva was homesteaded in 1888 and a tiny cemetery next to The Chapel by the Sea has the grave of the original resident, William Herbert Binder ( 1850 – 1932 ), an Austrian.

Miller, the move was begun on April 2, 1888 and continued for the next nine days, being the largest building move of the 19th century.

The reason for this was the tradition that there was an old man of the age group of Basawa from the previous cycle who was still alive and he was not meant to live and see the next Basawa Eventually the old man died in 1884 and the Basawa ensued the next initiation period in 1888.

Belgium led the way in introducing the suspended sentence for first-time offenders in 1888, followed by France in 1891 and most other countries in the next few years.

Harnett's Music and Good Luck from 1888 shows the violin hanging upright on a door with ornate hinges and with a slightly torn piece of sheet music behind it.

Historians are unclear when Robinson met Monet, but by 1888 their friendship was enough for Robinson to move in next door to the famous impressionist.

Theophilus Van Kannel ( 1841 – December 24, 1919 ) was an American inventor, famous for inventing the revolving door, patented on August 7, 1888.

A stone courthouse was erected from locally quarried materials in 1880 but was replaced by a wooden structure in 1888.

The replacement, a two-story stone building, was partially destroyed by fire in 1888, but was repaired and remained in operation until the present courthouse was constructed in 1929.

The oldest surviving school structure was about 1850, while a stone structure on the east side of town was built in 1888.

A second, two-story brick stone courthouse was partially destroyed in an 1888 fire, but was repaired and remained in use until 1929, when the present courthouse was constructed.

That courthouse replaced the previous stone structure built in 1888.

William Henry Hurlbert wrote in 1888 that the legend of the stone seemed to be less than a hundred years old at that time, suggesting the tradition began late in the 18th century.

The 1888 stone barracks contains a museum with artifacts from different time periods in the fort history.

The foundation stone, laid by his wife Helen in 1888, can still be seen on the façade of the theatre, almost at ground level to the right of the entrance.

This area of the Polden Hills was in use for quarrying of stone and lime burning from 1888 until 1973.

The foundation stone of the Technical School building was laid on 9 May 1888 by the Prince and Princess of Wales ; the building was completed towards the end of 1894.

A Neolithic stone axe-head was found at Wychnor Glebe in King's Bromley ( SK 099165 ) in 1888 and is now held at Lichfield Museum.

In 1888 the foundation stone of West Heath Hospital was laid and the following year it was opened as The Kings Norton Infectious Diseases Hospital with the last case of smallpox being treated there in 1906, subsequent cases being treated at Rubery.

The first stone bridge from the 16th century was damaged by war and destroyed by a flood in 1888.

Robert then approached the City Council for permission to erect the memorial stone on a wall in Erney Street ( off Shankill Road ) were Bernard McQuirt VC died in 1888.

Painted in 1888 in Arles, France, it depicts autumnal scenes in the Alyscamps, an ancient Roman necropolis in Arles which is lined with poplars and stone sarcophagi.

In 1888 Lord Carrington, as State Governor ( also Grand Master Freemason of the United Grand Lodge in NSW ), laid the foundation stone of Sydney's Trades Hall.

In 1888, it caught the eye of Lady Meux ( formerly a banjo-playing barmaid ); the gateway was purchased from the City of London and the 400 tons of stone was transported by horse-drawn carts to Theobalds Park, where it was carefully rebuilt at a cost of £ 10, 000.