Following his successful invention of the telephone and being relatively wealthy, Bell acquired land near Baddeck in 1885, largely due to surroundings reminiscent of his early years in Scotland.

In the early years other teams from Wales, Ireland and Scotland also took part in the competition, with Glasgow side Queen's Park losing the final to Blackburn Rovers in 1884 and 1885 before being barred from entering by the Scottish Football Association.

* September 28 – Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine, which was propelled by an early form of air-independent propulsion ( d. 1885 ).

* Guglielmo Ratcliff ( 16 February 1895 Teatro alla Scala, Milan ), composed between 1885 and the early 1890s-libretto

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( 30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972 ) was an American expatriate poet, critic and a major figure of the early modernist movement.

* An early Rudyard Kipling story has the title The Phantom Rickshaw ( 1885 ).

Seat belts were invented by George Cayley in the early 19th century, though Edward J. Claghorn of New York, was granted the first patent (, on February 10, 1885 for a safety belt ).

The Battle of Fish Creek National Historic Site, the name has been changed to Tourond's Coulee / Fish Creek National Historic Site to preserve the battlefield of April 24, 1885, at la coulée des Tourond, Madame Tourond ’ s home, early Red River cart Fish Creek Trail and the site of Middleton ’ s camp and graveyard.

Etymologically, according to the OED, the word matriarchy is first attested in 1885, building on an earlier matriarch, formed in analogy to patriarch, already in use in the early 17th century.

The United States WCTU formed a " Department for the Overthrow of the Tobacco Habit " as early as 1885 and frequently published anti-tobacco articles in the 1880s.

It was founded in 1885 and named for Elnora Griffith, wife of an early merchant.

Named after an early settler, Henry Haub, the town was legally platted in 1885 and incorporated in 1913.

The years 1885, ' 86, ' 87, ' 88 and the first half of 1889, were boom times and growing years for early day Ulysses ; The second half of 1889 brought drought, and the boom began to fade.

Morrill Township was organized in 1881 as Oakwood Township but renamed in 1885 after Albert A. Morill, an early settler.

There are reports of a homestead and orchard immediately north of Bigfork as early as 1885.

The Meet, as it is known locally, has grown from the North East Cyclists Meet dating back to 1885 and since the early 1900s the town has staged a carnival and grand procession through the town centre on the bank holiday Monday.

Richburg was served ( 1881 – 1890 and c. 1906-1946 ) by the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad ( PS & N ) and predecessors, and ( 1881 – 1885 ) by the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba Railroad System ( BE & C ) The early PS & N predecessors and the BE & C were 36 " narrow-gauge railroads while the PS & N was a standard-gauge railroad.

* Aaron Stafford ( 1787 – 1885 ), early settler, farmer, state legislator, last surviving American officer of the War of 1812.

As of 1885, Selden was home to 88 residents and a Presbyterian church ( built in 1857 ), and noted for producing melons and early garden vegetables from its farms.

In the early spring of 1885, Mr. Beard entered into an agreement with the promoters of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company, then extending its line from Memphis, Tennessee, to Amarillo, Texas, to build through his farm, and in consideration he gave the railway company one-half his claim of one hundred and sixty acres.

Starting in the early 1920s, the Scranton Button Company ( founded in 1885 and a major maker of shellac buttons ) became one of the primary makers of phonograph records.

A breaker sat on the hill just below the mine as early as 1885.

In early 1885, the city agreed to let it travel to New Orleans for the World Cotton Centennial exposition.

Organised Australian rules football was first played in Fremantle in the early 1880s with the Fremantle Football Club, a founding member of the West Australian Football Association in 1885.

In the first large-scale depictions during the early archaic period ( 640 – 580 BC ), the artists tried to draw one's attention to look into the interior of the face and the body which were not represented as lifeless masses, but as being full of life.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, many linguists who studied Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic regarded them as members of a common Ural – Altaic family, together with Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic, based on such shared features as vowel harmony and agglutination.

The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

* Bhartrihari ( c 450 – 510 CE ), early figure in Indic linguistic theory

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

Subgenus Alnus: Trees with stalked shoot buds, male and female catkins produced in autumn ( fall ) but stay closed over winter, pollinating in late winter or early spring, about 15 – 25 species, including:

Some early scientists such as Georg Ernst Stahl ( 1659-1734 ) and Francisque Bouillier ( 1813 – 1899 ) had supported a form of animism which life and mind, the directive principle in evolution and growth, holding that all cannot be traced back to chemical and mechanical processes, but that there is a directive force which guides energy without altering its amount.

* 1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day.

Her husband died, apparently in the early years of her marriage, leaving her with two children, Athalaric and Matasuntha ( c. 517 – after 550 ), wife c. 550 of Germanus.

* Borschberg, Peter, " O comércio de âmbar asiático no início da época moderna ( séculos XV-XVIII ) – The Asiatic ambergris trade in the early modern period ( 15 to 18 century )" Oriente, Lisbon: Fundação Oriente, vol.

In early manhood ( c. 464 – 461 BC ) he went to Athens, which was rapidly becoming the centre of Greek culture.

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

His ' matrix divisor ' ( vector bundle avant la lettre ) Riemann – Roch theorem from 1938 was a very early anticipation of later ideas such as moduli spaces of bundles.

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

At any rate affairs in that region, including the future of the church of Ephesus ( 20: 28 – 30 ), are treated as though they would specially interest " Theophilus " and his circle ; also an early tradition has Luke die in the adjacent Bithynia.

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

* Atanasoff – Berry Computer, an early electronic digital computer