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 to 1890 Berlin's population grew by 20 %, Brandenburg and the Rhineland gained 8. 5 %, Westphalia 10 %, while East Prussia lost 0. 07 % and West Prussia 0. 86 %.

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 July to August 1892 he served in the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert while Queen Victoria was holidaying in the Mediterranean.

From 1892 Scottish universities could admit and graduate women and the numbers of women at Scottish universities steadily increased until the early 20th century.

From 1892 to 1895 he was tutored for the university entrance exam, which he passed in 1895.

From Ernakulam, he travelled to Trivandrum, Nagercoil and reached Kanyakumari on foot during the Christmas Eve of 1892.

From 1886, Foreign Secretary Lord Rosebery sent him Foreign Office despatches, and from 1892 some Cabinet papers were opened to him.

From the opening in 1892 of the Health Centre, a doctor could also prescribe a haircut or even a bath.

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 1852 until 1892 the area was known as " Blue Pond ".

From February 1892 through August 1893, Ulysses had two weekly newspapers, The Ulysses Tribune and The Grant County Republican.

From 1892, the 9th Duke of Devonshire rented the villa to Doctors T S and C M Tuke, and it was used by them as a mental hospital for wealthy male and female patients until 1928.

From 1892 to 1901 Kyle was home to the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Katherine Anne Porter.

From 1892 to 1930 home of Pollit & Wigzell ltd a prominent manufacturer of quality stationary steam engines used in the cotton and woollen mills of Yorkshire, Lancashire and India.

From 1892, Vierne served as an assistant to the organist Charles-Marie Widor at the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris.

From 1889 to 1892, while still a student, he played in the orchestra of the Folies Bergère ; he later said to George Gershwin that his rhythmic sense was formed during the experience of playing popular dance music there.

" John Rewald, one of the first professional art historians to focus on the birth of early modern art, limited the scope to the years between 1886 and 1892 in his pioneering publication on Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin ( 1956 ): Rewald considered it to continue his History of Impressionism ( 1946 ), and pointed out that a " subsequent volume dedicated to the second half of the post-impressionist period "— Post-Impressionism: From Gauguin to Matisse — was to follow, extending the period covered to other artistic movements derived from Impressionism and confined to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

From 1890 to 1892 he was Vice President of the Chamber, then in 1893 President.

From July to September 1892 he traveled through Florida, Washington, Philadelphia, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica on an organization mission among the exiled Cubans.

From this he established the Cuban Revolutionary Party in early 1892.

From 1892 until 1894, Adolf Hitler and his family lived in Passau.

From 1854 to 1892, Siqiujor became part of the province of Negros Oriental, and became a sub-province in 1901.

* From 1876 – 1892, pitchers threw from fifty feet and exerted less stress on their arms ( also pitchers often threw underhand in this era ).