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In 1884 at the University of Vienna he attended the lectures of Franz Brentano on philosophy and philosophical psychology.
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.
Between 1884 and 1886, William attended the Metropolitan School of Art — now the National College of Art and Design — in Thomas Street.
In 1884 the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference and twenty-five nations attended.
* 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 )
He was British delegate to the International Meridian Conference at Washington in 1884, when he also attended the meetings of the British Association at Montreal and of the American Association at Philadelphia.
He attended Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School in 1884, before moving on to attend Bristol Grammar School, where in 1885 he wrote a play, which he performed together with other students.
In 1884, Trenchard was moved to Dover where he attended Hammond's, a cramming school for prospective entrants to HMS Britannia.
** Major General Clifford Coffin, VC, CB, DSO & Bar ( attended Haileybury College, Lawrence House, 1884 – 1886 )
Perkins was born on September 20, 1884, in New York City, grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and then graduated from Harvard College in 1907.
He was baptized at St. Mary Roman Catholic Church ( 1843 ), at the corner of St. Antoine and Croghan ( Monroe St .), on February 18, 1866, attended St. Albertus for his primary education, and studied at Detroit College ( now the University of Detroit Mercy ), where he received a bachelor's degree in 1884.
A slight individual who stood just tall and weighed only, Funston failed an admissions test to the United States Military Academy in 1884, then attended the University of Kansas from 1885 to 1888, but did not graduate.
Hans Makart ( May 28, 1840 – October 3, 1884 ) was a 19th century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator ; most well known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era considered an important artist himself and was a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna, attended with almost cult-like adulation.
He entered the Württemberg Army in 1884, and attended the War Academy from 1893 to 1897, whereupon he was appointed to the General Staff ( 1899 ).
While he never attended university, he was granted an honorary degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1884.
Thomas Osborne attended Adams Academy in Quincy, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University with honors in 1884, where he was among the founders of the Harvard Cooperative Society.
Nock attended St. Stephen's College ( now known as Bard College ) from 1884 – 1888, where he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity.
He attended the preparatory program at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from September 1881 to April 1884, leaving to prepare for the entrance exam for the U. S. Naval Academy.
From 1884 to 1886, he attended the University of California at Berkeley, though he did not graduate.
Rawlinson attended Eton and Sandhurst and entered the Army in 1884 as an officer in the King's Royal Rifle Corps in India.
Following the Brooklyn project, Roebling and his wife lived in Troy, New York, from 1884 – 88, as their only child, John A. Roebling, II, also attended the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( RPI ).
He attended the United States Naval Academy, graduating in June 1884 before beginning his career as a naval officer.
In 1884, he attended the kindergarten affiliated with the Ochanomizu women's teachers ' college, and his father visited Europe on government business.
This proved to be a high-water mark for the organization, however, as prosperity returned to Midwestern agriculture in 1883 and the 4th Convention was poorly attended and no convention was held at all in 1884.

1884 and International
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 ).
In 1884, the International Meridian Conference adopted the Greenwich meridian as the universal Prime Meridian or zero point of longitude.
* The International Meridian Conference of 1884 in Washington DC, establishing the Greenwich Meridian, the world time zone system and the universal day as international standards
* 1884: International Meridian Conference in Washington D. C., held to determine the Prime Meridian of the world.
The principal meridian of that observatory was chosen in 1884 by the International Meridian Conference to be the Prime Meridian.
The local time at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich, England was chosen as standard at the 1884 International Meridian Conference, leading to the widespread use of Greenwich Mean Time to set local clocks.
AOAC International was originally founded in 1884 as the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists.
The International Meridian Conference was a conference held in October 1884 in Washington, D. C., in the United States to determine a prime meridian for international use.
The subject to discuss was the choice of " a meridian to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the world " ( Proceedings of the 1884 International Meridian Conference, page 7 ).
He continued to promote his system at major international conferences including the International Meridian Conference of 1884.
Cross ) at the First International Forestry Exhibition ( 1884 ).
On April 22, 1884, the United States decided that the cessions claimed by Leopold from the local leaders were lawful, recognized the International Association of the Congo.
This was exhibited at the International Electrical Exposition in Philadelphia in September 1884.
Indeed, the 1884 International Meridian Conference explicitly refused to propose or agree to any time zones, stating that they were outside its purview.
In 1884 he was honoured with the chairmanship of the first International Ornithological Congress in Vienna.
* 1884 – First International Ornithological Congress held in Vienna, with Gustav Radde as President
* 1884 – Victorian International Exhibition held
* International Meridian Conference of 1884
This convention was established in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference held in Washington, D. C. where the Standard Time concepts of Canadian railroad engineer Sir Sanford Fleming were adopted.
In 1884, the school moved to 7th Avenue and S. Jackson Street in the International District.
* In 1879-1884, the explorer Henry Morton Stanley ( b. 1841-d. 1904 ) was styled Plenipotentiary of the Committee for the Studies of Upper Congo ( CEHC ) ( from 1882, renamed International Association of the Congo, a front for the ambitions of Belgian King Leopold II, not supported by the Belgian government ) in Equatorial Africa, while military command lay with four consecutive Commandants of the ( leading ) station at Karema ; on 22 April 1884 the International Association of the Congo became the independent Free Congo State, under regular authorities ( headed, strictly personal, by Belgian king Leopold II ), at first styled Administrator-general.

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