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.

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

During the Christmas holiday in 1884, he visited his brother, the owner of a cigar store in Philadelphia, and returned home in January ill with typhoid.

During the Franco-Chinese War ( 1884 – 1885 ), Tōgō, onboard Amagi, closely followed the actions of the French fleet under Admiral Courbet.

* 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.

During the Reichstag elections, the fifteen deputies of 1874, 1881, 1884 ( but one ) and 1887 were called protester deputies ( fr: députés protestataires ) because they expressed to the Parliament their opposition to the annexation by means of the 1874 motion in French language: « May it please the Reichstag to decide that the populations of Alsace-Lorraine that were annexed, without having been consulted, to the Germanic Empire by the treaty of Frankfurt have to come out particularly about this annexation.

During the siege of Tuyen Quang ( November 1884 – March 1885 ), Liu Yung-fu's Black Flags, who formed part of the besieging Chinese army, taunted the men of the French garrison by chanting the names of their two most famous victims: ' Garnier!

During the summer of 1884, Byng spent much of his time playing polo and training recruits and horses, and in July, for his services in Sudan, was mentioned in despatches.

During the assignment, on December 1884, Scheer participated in a landing party that suppressed a pro-British indigenous chieftain in Kamerun.

During the Sino-French War ( August 1884 – April 1885 ) he established a close friendship with the Chinese statesman and general Tang Ching-sung, and in 1895 he helped Tang organise resistance to the Japanese invasion of Taiwan.

During the 1884 campaign, they were often portrayed as " fence-sitters ," with part of their body on the side of the Democrats and the other on the side of the Republicans.

During the department era, Alaska was variously under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Army ( until 1877 ), the United States Department of the Treasury ( from 1877 until 1879 ) and the U. S. Navy ( from 1879 until 1884 ).

During the Department era, Alaska was variously under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Army ( until 1877 ), the United States Department of the Treasury ( from 1877 until 1879 ) and the U. S. Navy ( from 1879 until 1884 ), but now the area had its own government.

During Payne's last venture, this time into the Cherokee Outlet in 1884, the Army again arrested him.

During the 1880s and 1890s, the Republicans struggled against the Democrats ' efforts, winning several close elections and losing two to Grover Cleveland ( in 1884 and 1892 ).

* Grant, Alexander, The Story of the University of Edinburgh During its First 300 Years, vol. 2, ( London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1884 )

During 1883 and 1884, Dawson travelled through the Canadian Rockies where he was tasked by the Canadian government to map out major mountains and mountain passes as well as significant rivers.

During this time, in 1884, a road and water lines were made to service the site and a papier-mâché model of Schultze's plan was created.

During this time, Brusilov married ( 1884 ), and the union produced a son in 1887.

During this period, Sarah Goddard began a new career as a traveling Quaker preacher ; she married missionary Jehu Newlin in 1884, and the couple regularly traveled throughout the United States and Europe.

** During 1884, William Ross developed plans to extend the St Kilda line to his Rosstown Railway via Elwood.

During another trip in July 1884, the army seized his Oklahoma War Chief press, burned his buildings, and took Payne and his group through the Cherokee Nation after their arrest.

During the 1884 season, the Maroons and Dunlap dominated the Union Association.

During the last few years of his life Byron was in frail health, and he died at his home in Clapham, London, England, in 1884 at the age of 49.

During 1893 the juvenile quality of his earliest work falls away, and by 1894 his career as a painter can be said to have begun.

During the century a new skilled understanding of narrativist imagery was developed. I and the Village by Marc Chagall, a List of modern artists | modern painter.

* December 23 – During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear.

A prime example of a highly venerated court painter was Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 ) who painted an enormous panoramic painting, Along the River During the Qingming Festival.

During the summer of 1980, following the suggestion of Knez ' father, famous Slovenian painter and artist Janez Knez, the band changed the name to Laibach.

During his Tuscan period, though preoccuppied with figurative subjects, he began to experiment with drawings in landscape, and according to non-contemporary sources his introduction to the latter genre was through the Roman landscape painter and etcher Paolo Anesi ( 1697-1773 ).< ref > Lanzi, Luigi.

During this time, he worked steadily towards becoming a professional painter.

During a stay in Nice, his progress in painting and drawing impressed Princeteau, who persuaded his parents to let him return to Paris and study under the acclaimed portrait painter Léon Bonnat.

Zhang Zeduan was a notable painter for his horizontal Along the River During Qingming Festival landscape and cityscape painting.

During the summer of 1908, his wife Mathilde left him for several months for a young Austrian painter, Richard Gerstl.

During a long period of his life, Hogarth tried to achieve the status of history painter, but had no great success in this field.

During this time the painter Vincent van Gogh briefly lived in the municipality, making him the most famous citizen in the history of Etten and Leur.

During this time, he met Adolph Gottlieb, who, along with Barnett Newman, Joseph Solman, Louis Schanker, and John Graham, was part of a group of young artists surrounding the painter Milton Avery, fifteen years Rothko ’ s senior.

During this time he attracted the attention of French landscape painter Régis François Gignoux, with whom he subsequently studied.

During that time she met the painter Louis le Brocquy who was then working in London.

During the 1640s and 1650s, Velázquez served as both court painter and curator of Philip IV's expanding collection of European art.

During that period, painter Theo van Doesburg started looking for other artists to set up a journal and start an art movement.

During the summer of 1903 Kent was apprenticed to painter and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer.

During his visit to his native home in Nuremberg, in collaboration with the painter Georg Albrecht Glockenthon, Martin Behaim constructed his familiar terrestrial globe between 1491 and 1493, one of two globes, which he called the Erdapfel ( literally, the earth apple ).

During his period of recovery, he often sat near the fire, and drew on the white stone hearth wall with charcoals, which he did so well that his parents asked if he would like to be a painter or draughtsman, and when he responded seriously in the affirmative, he was apprenticed to Jan Mostaert, then a master of a painting workshop in Haarlem.

During his time as a student at Worcester South High School, he became an apprentice to a local sign painter, and later attended Worcester Art Museum School, where he studied fine arts.

During this years he worked with the American painter George Sheridan, sharing for some months his studio in the Haute Pyrenees.

During 1896 – 1910, famous Lithuanian composer and painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis lived and worked in the city.

During his lifetime, Lorenzo Lotto was a well-respected painter and certainly popular in Northern Italy.