But by laying bare in 1884 the upper stratum of remains on the rock of Tiryns, Schliemann made a contribution to our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life which was amplified two years later by Christos Tsountas's discovery of the palace at Mycenae.

This adaptation was produced at the Princess Theatre, 3 March 1884.

Princeton class of 1882 graduate Thomas Peebles moved to Minnesota in 1884, and transplanted the idea of organized crowds cheering at football games to the University of Minnesota.

File: The Church at Eragny Pissarro. jpg | The Church at Eragny, 1884, Walters Art Museum

From 1865 to 1884 — except for a brief interval — he was a surgeon at the Pennsylvania Hospital.

In 1884 at the University of Vienna he attended the lectures of Franz Brentano on philosophy and philosophical psychology.

His picture, Morning ( 1884 ), was displayed at the Norwegian pavilion.

Two Foreign Legion companies led the defence at the celebrated Siege of Tuyên Quang ( 24 November 1884 to 3 March 1885 ).

In May 1884 Koechlin, working at his home, made an outline drawing of their scheme, described by him as " a great pylon, consisting of four lattice girders standing apart at the base and coming together at the top, joined together by metal trusses at regular intervals ".

The design was exhibited at the Exhibition of Decorative Arts in the autumn of 1884, and on 30 March 1885 Eiffel read a paper on the project to the Société des Ingiénieurs Civils.

As the United Kingdom grew into an advanced maritime nation, British mariners kept at least one chronometer on GMT in order to calculate their longitude from the Greenwich meridian, which was by convention considered to have longitude zero degrees ( this convention was internationally adopted in the International Meridian Conference of 1884 ).

Although it did not win, Le Villi was later staged in 1884 at the Teatro Dal Verme and it caught the attention of Giulio Ricordi, head of G. Ricordi & Co. music publishers, who commissioned a second opera, Edgar, in 1889.

* Le Villi, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana ( in one act – premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme, 31 May 1884 )

As dramatised in the film Topsy-Turvy, the author and composer were at an impasse until 8 May 1884, when Gilbert dropped the lozenge idea and agreed to provide a libretto without any supernatural elements.

The script on a monument at Boğazköy by a " People of Hattusas " discovered by William Wright in 1884 was found to match peculiar hieroglyphic scripts from Aleppo and Hamath in Northern Syria.

Schliemann made a third excavation at Troy in 1882 – 1883, an excavation of Tiryns with Wilhelm Dörpfeld in 1884, a fourth excavation at Troy, also with Dörpfeld ( who emphasized the importance of strata ), in 1888 – 1890.

His father died in 1880, and his mother in 1884, leaving Hoover an orphan at the age of nine.

Between 1884 and 1885, European nations met at the Berlin West Africa Conference to discuss the partitioning of Africa.

In particular the Gaelic Athletic Association continues to organise its activities on the basis of GAA counties that, throughout the island, correspond almost exactly to the 32 traditional counties in use at the time of the foundation of that organisation in 1884.

In 1884, he accepted a faculty position at the University of Michigan ( 1884 – 88 and 1889 – 94 ) with the help of George Sylvester Morris.

Accident insurance was provided in 1884, while old age pensions and disability insurance were established in 1889.

Mary Edison died at age 29 on August 9, 1884, of unknown causes: possibly from a brain tumor or a morphine overdose.

In 1884, Evans at the age of 34, was appointed Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

In 1884, when Nellie Ross was seven years of age, her family moved to Miltonvale in Cloud County in northern Kansas.

Agnes then became ill and died on June 10, 1884, of cerebrospinal meningitis at the age of 28.

Despite appeals from his chess admirers, Morphy never returned to the game, and died in 1884 from a stroke at the age of forty-seven.

On the afternoon of July 10, 1884, Morphy was found dead in his bathtub in New Orleans at the age of forty-seven.

1884 In the village the population was spread out with 27. 2 % under the age of 18, 8. 4 % from 18 to 24, 29. 3 % from 25 to 44, 24. 0 % from 45 to 64, and 11. 1 % who were 65 years of age or older.

The author Willa Cather lived in Red Cloud for several years with her family, starting in 1884 at age nine.

He was elected to the Texas State Senate in 1884, two years before he met the minimum age requirement of twenty-six.

Another Anglo-Welsh novelist ( and playwright ) was Jack Jones ( 1884 – 1970 ), a miner's son from Merthyr Tydfil who was himself a miner from the age of 12.

* A unique character, Burt Mustin ( 1884 – 1977 ) was a retired car salesman who began acting in films and television in 1951, at the age of 67, and continued as a performer for the next twenty-six years, dying eleven days short of his ninety-third birthday.

In October 1884, at the age of 22, he migrated to Australia, and worked as a labourer, bush worker and cook.

A pamphlet entitled " The Autobiography of Joseph Carey Merrick ", produced c. 1884 to accompany his exhibition, states that he started to display symptoms at approximately five years of age, with " thick lumpy skin ... like that of an elephant, and almost the same colour ".

He entered the Volozhin Yeshiva in 1884 at the age of 18, where he became close to the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin ( the Netziv ).

Charles Parsons launched his revolutionary Turbinia here in 1884, thus not only revolutionising the navies of the world, but also, through the large-scale production of affordable electricity, making a significant contribution to the modern age.

Later known as the Grecian Theatre, it was here that Marie Lloyd made her début at the age of 14 in 1884.

Early chess prodigies were Paul Morphy ( 1837 – 1884 ) and José Raúl Capablanca ( 1888 – 1942 ), both of whom won matches against strong adult opponents at the age of 12 ; and Samuel Reshevsky ( 1911 – 1992 ), who was giving simultaneous exhibitions at the age of six.

Johann Peter Lange ( April 10, 1802, Sonneborn ( now a part of Wuppertal )-July 9, 1884, age 82 ), was a German Calvinist theologian of peasant origin.

Another Hiroshima woman, Asa Takii ( 1884 – 1998 ), had also lived to age 114, and in doing so she had become the oldest in Japan, but Kawate is the oldest person in the city's history and the only one from there to become the oldest recognized living person.

In 1884, at the age of 17, he was sent on an ocean voyage to Australia to improve his fragile health, accompanied by two Aunts.

Leland Stanford Jr. ( May 14, 1868 – March 13, 1884 in Florence, Italy ), Leland DeWitt Stanford until age nine, was the only child of Governor Leland Stanford of California and his wife Jane Stanford née Lathrop, and is the namesake of Stanford University, adjacent to Palo Alto, California, United States.