They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

The main magazine of this group from 1884 – 1957 was The Fraternal Visitor, whose editors included J. J. Bishop and J. J. Hadley ( d. 1912 ), then Thomas Turner, and finally Cyril Cooper ( till reunion in 1957 ).

; 1884: The Fabian Society is founded in London by a group of middle class intellectuals, including Quaker Edward R. Pease, Havelock Ellis, and E. Nesbit, to promote socialism.

* Küpeyakwüskonam ( Kupeyakwuskonam, Kah-pah-yak-as-to-cum-One Arrow, French: ‘ Une Flèche ’, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree, born 1815 in the Saskatchewan River Valley, son of George Sutherland (‘ Okayasiw ’) and his second wife Paskus (‘ Rising ’), tried to prevent in 1876 negotiations on the Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton along with Kamdyistowesit (' Beardy ') and Saswaypew (' Cut Nose '), but finally signed on August 28 the treaty, in August 1884 he attended a meeting with chief Mistahimaskwa (' Big Bear ') and Papewes (‘ Papaway ’-' Lucky Man '), his tribal group joined first the Métis in 1885, died on 25 April 1886 in the prison )

* Papewes ( Papaway-‘ Lucky Man ’, Chief of the Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), born in the late 1830s near Fort Pitt, was in the 1870s a leader of Mistahimaskwa ´ s Plains River Cree, as the bison disappeared, signed along with Little Pine on the 2nd July 1879 for the 470 members of his tribal group an annex to the Agreement No. 6 at Fort Walsh, in vain he asked for a reserve in the Cypress Hills and the Buffalo Lake, so many members went back to Mistahimaskwa (" Big Bear ") or joined Minahikosis (" Little Pine "), Papewes asked 1884 in vain a reserve adjacent to the reserves of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker '), Minahikosis and Mistahimaskwa, during the rebellion of 1885 were the two groups of Papewes and Minahikosis scattered and some of their members fled in the U. S., 1886 settled the remaining members of the two groups in the Little Pine's reserve died 1901 nahe Fort Assiniboine, Montana )

* March 15, 1884: Gainsville, Georgia In the middle of the day, a group of very drunk Jackson County farmers left the Jug Tavern drinking and shooting their revolvers as they headed down the street driving people into their homes.

The Korolevsky Theater ( built in 1884 – 85 ) was being used by a group of communist revolutionaries when the theater was attacked and set on fire by members of the Black Hundred, a hard-line nationalist organization.

On December 13, 1884, following much research and discussion among the group, Whitehouse submitted his designs.

In 1884 a group of forty Novelty area farmers formed an association and constructed the Novelty Creamery.

The coal mining activity ended in 1884, when a labor dispute at the mine ended with a group of miners sending a burning coal car into the mine, igniting the coal.

In November 1884, Germany proclaimed its protectorate over the New Britain Archipelago ; the German colonial administration gave New Britain and New Ireland the names of Neupommern ( or Neu-Pommern ; " New Pomerania ") and Neumecklenburg ( or Neu-Mecklenburg ; " New Mecklenburg ") respectively, and the whole island group was renamed the Bismarck Archipelago.

To address this problem, the group established the Philadelphia Textile School in 1884 and began a formal educational program for America's textile workers and managers.

Philipp Frank, the youngest of the group ( 1884 – 1966 ), studied physics at Göttingen and Vienna with Ludwig Boltzmann, David Hilbert and Felix Klein.

Reorganized in 1877 and again in 1881, when it was renamed the Toronto Secular Society, the group formed the nucleus of the Canadian Secular Union, established in 1884 to bring together freethinkers from across the country.

in 1884 the Democratic Federation was transformed into the Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ) when the group adopted an explicitly socialist platform.

The group traveled by rail to end of the line at Las Vegas, New Mexico, then on to Zuni Pueblo where Cushing, " went native ", living with the Zuni from 1879 to 1884, becoming anthropology's first participant observer.

In 1883, the Blands joined a socialist debating group which evolved to become the Fabian Society in January 1884.

A group of young lads started a team to play matches in 1884.

In 1884 a group of Boer farmers from the districts of Utrecht and Vryheid undertook to restore order, in return for land for the formation of an independent republic.

* Manuel Romero Rubio ( 1828 – 1895 ), Secretary of the Interior from 1884 to 1895 and the father of Porfirio Díaz ' second wife Carmen ( they were married in 1881 ); a founding member of the group.

In the winter of 1884, another group of Bilu pioneers founded Gedera.

* Jamnalal Bajaj ( 1884 – 1942 ), prominent Indian businessman, founder of the Bajaj group of companies

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.

In the spring of 1884 Levitan participated in the mobile art exhibition by the group known as the Peredvizhniki and in 1891 became a member of the Peredvizhniki partnership.

Already a leading player in state politics, he attended the Republican National Convention in 1884 and fought alongside the Mugwump reformers ; they lost to the Stalwart faction that nominated James G. Blaine.

The law offended machine politicians within the Republican Party and did not prove to be enough for the party's reformers ; hence, Arthur lost popularity within the Republican Party and was unable to win the party's Presidential nomination at the 1884 Republican National Convention.

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.

The journal of the dam's keeper from 1882 to 1890 still survives, briefly describing log drives and jams and the flood of 1884.

He briefly transferred to the Royal Irish Rifles in 1884, but quickly returned to the Rifle Brigade.

A New York production ran briefly in 1884, and there was a second American production in 1887.

After briefly studying under Ernst Rudorff at the Königliche Hochschule für Musik in Berlin he left for the United States, where he made his first concert appearance in Boston in 1884.

He studied briefly at the University of Illinois, Urbana ( 1884 ), but left to begin his architectural career as a draftsman, eventually serving in the office of McKim, Mead & White ( MMW ) in New York City, one of the best-known architectural firms in its time.

In the early 1880s, Gillett permanently relocated out of his native Wisconsin for the West, living briefly in both the Montana Territory and Washington Territory before moving to California, settling in Eureka in 1884.

After serving briefly in the Ohio legislature ( as a Democrat, 1884 – 1888 ), McBride helped found the Ohio People ’ s Party in 1891.

William Henry Hunt ( June 12, 1823 – February 27, 1884 ) was the United States Secretary of the Navy under President James Garfield and briefly under President Chester A. Arthur.

Although Walhalla briefly led the world in having two electric street lights in 1884, this service was never extended further into the town.

In the early Meiji period, in what was locally called the Gunma Incident of 1884, a bloody struggle between the idealistic democratic westernizers and the conservative Prussian-model nationalists took place in Gunma and neighboring Nagano.

Carlisle became a leader of the conservative Bourbon Democrats and was mentioned as a presidential candidate but the Democrats passed him over at their conventions for Winfield S. Hancock in 1880 and Grover Cleveland in 1884.

Carl Friedrich Goerdeler ( 31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945 ) was a monarchist conservative German politician, executive, economist, civil servant, and opponent of the Nazi regime.

While Smetana's later career was plagued with problems for presenting Wagnerian-style music dramas in Czech before a conservative audience, Fibich's pugilistic music criticism, not to mention his overtly Wagnerian later operas, Hedy, Šárka, and Pád Arkuna, exacerbated the problem in the years after Smetana's death in 1884.

* 1884: The National Liberal Party merged into the conservative Right ( Høyre )