From the mid-century there were increasing calls for Home Rule for Scotland and when the Conservative Lord Salisbury became prime minister in 1885 he responded to pressure by reviving the post of Secretary of State for Scotland, which had been in abeyance since 1746.

From 1800 until 1885, Barbados then served as the main seat of Government for the former British colonies of the Windward Islands.

From 1885 to 1895, Phan Đình Phùng led a rebellion against the colonizing power.

From Ritzville's designation as county seat in 1884 until 1892, courts were briefly held in rented space before the county purchased a building from N. H. Greene in 1885.

From 1885 the Force publique was established as the military garrison and police force in the Belgian Congo.

From 1885 to 1887, as a result of the opening of trade between Britain and the Far East, Humphreys ' Hall in Knightsbridge hosted an exhibition of Japanese culture in a setting built to resemble a traditional Japanese village.

From 1885 the Hamlet of Penge was part of the Dulwich parliamentary constituency, which was then in Surrey, and remained in that seat until 1918 when it was transferred to the new Bromley constituency.

From 1882 to the end of 1885, he was in the maintenance of way department of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad.

From 1880 to 1885, as the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railroad was under construction, active steamboat riverports like Wittsburg, Arkansas, at that time the county seat of Cross County, were deserted for the railroads.

From 1885 until 1924, Sea Isle City was the location of Ludlam's Beach Lighthouse.

From 1784 to 1885, Coram served as the meeting place for the Town of Brookhaven government, using the Davis Town Meeting House for much of that period.

From 1866 till 1885, the famous Chisholm Trail cattle drives through this area with the Stagecoach Inn being one of the stops.

Letters From A Mourning City was published in Swedish in 1885 and in Italian in 1910.

From 1885 it was in the Aylesbury constituency, in 1950 it formed part of the South Buckinghamshire seat and in 1974 the current Chesham and Amersham constituency was created.

From 1885 to 1896, the Coney Island Elephant was the first sight to greet immigrants arriving in New York, who would see it before the Statue of Liberty became visible.

From 1885 to 1950 the town formed part of the Spen Valley county constituency.

From a tinted lithograph by David Roberts RA and Louis Hahge, 1806 – 1885

The first Creole cookbook in English was La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes, From Leading Chefs and Noted Creole Housewives, Who Have Made New Orleans Famous For Its Cuisine, written by Lafcadio Hearn and published in 1885.

From 1881 to 1885 he was Chairman of the Democratic Conference.

From this time he was engaged in writing novels, including Richard Arbour or the Family Scapegrace ( 1861 ), Married Beneath Him ( 1865 ), Carlyon's Year ( 1868 ), A County Family ( 1869 ), By Proxy ( 1878 ), A Confidential Agent ( 1880 ), A Grape from a Thorn, The Talk of the Town ( 1885 ), and The Heir of the Ages ( 1886 ).

From 1885 until 1983 Rugby was a constituency in itself.

From 1852 to 1885, perforated pipe systems were used in textile mills throughout New England as a means of fire protection.

From 1885 to 1886 Ramsay held the newly created Lincoln and Merton professorship of classical archaeology and art at Oxford and became a fellow of Lincoln College ( honorary fellow 1898 ).

* From 1883 to 1885 he was Burnett lecturer at Aberdeen, his lectures on light, which were published in 1884 – 1887, dealing with its nature, its use as a means of investigation, and its beneficial effects.

From 1890 on, he had a friend and admirer in Judge Francis C. Russell of Chicago, who introduced Peirce to editor Paul Carus and owner Edward C. Hegeler of the pioneering American philosophy journal The Monist, which eventually published articles by Peirce, at least 14.

From 1890 – 1908, Democrats passed new constitutions and statutes in the South that created requirements for voter registration and voting that effectively disfranchised most blacks and tens of thousands of poor whites.

From this effort resulted the three-volume Theorie der Transformationsgruppen, published in 1888, 1890, and 1893.

From 1867 to 1890 the fledgling church, known as the Free Protestant Church, rented premises in a commercial building in Cape Town, and in 1890 a warehouse in the city was purchased and converted into the present church.

From 1890 to 1913, traditional viziers were appointed to govern as puppets, switching to a system of British residents ( effectively governors ) from 1913 to 1963.

From 1866 until 1890, the Pony Express logo was used by Wells Fargo, which provided secure mail and freight services.

From 1870 to 1890, the U. S. government leased them to the Alaska Commercial Company.

From 1890 through 1910, the North American Commercial Company held the monopoly on seal-hunting there, but the industry shrank considerably owing to seal-hunting on the open sea.

From 1890 to 1908, Southern states of the former Confederacy created constitutions with provisions that disfranchised tens of thousands of African Americans.

From 1890 to 1908, southern states passed new constitutions and laws that disfranchised most blacks and tens of thousands of poor whites with new voter registration and electoral rules.

From 1890 to 1908, 10 Southern states wrote new constitutions with provisions that included literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses that permitted otherwise disqualified voters whose grandfathers voted ( thus allowing some white illiterates to vote ), some with the aim and effect of re-imposing racially motivated restrictions on the voting process that disenfranchised blacks.

From 1878 to 1890, any grouping or meeting that aimed at spreading socialist principles was banned ( anti-Socialist laws ), but it still gained support in elections.

From 1830 to 1890 the composition of these matches remained largely unchanged although some improvements were made.

From 1890 to 1892, he made a concerted effort to succeed commercially on the London stage, writing a half-dozen plays of which only one, a dramatisation of his novel The American, was produced.

From 1850 to 1890, its lands were never attached to any state or territory, never surveyed, and never divided into townships and sections.

From 1890 to 1907, it was part of Beaver County.

From its opening bars, Symphony No. 1 in G minor ( 1890 – 92 ), while reflecting the influence of Grieg and Brahms, shows Nielsen's individuality.

From about 1877 to 1890, the town's mines produced USD $ 40 to $ 85 million in silver bullion, the largest productive silver district in Arizona.

From about 1877 to 1890, the Loup valley enjoyed a series of wet years that attracted a wave of settlers, who homesteaded even marginal agricultural land.

From 1890 to 1952, Kenton was home to the Kenton Hardware Company, manufacturers of locks, cast-iron toys, and the very popular Gene Autry toy cap guns.

From 1890 until his death, he was leader of the Democratic Party in the House, as either the House Minority Leader or the Speaker of the House.

From 1858 until about 1890, logging in the basin supplied large timbers to shore up the underground workings of the Comstock mines.

From 1884 to 1890, Gosse lectured in English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, despite his own lack of academic qualifications.