In 1864 William Wallace Mitchell ( 1803 – 1884 ), a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his " Manual of Bowls Playing " following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game.

In China, with its traditions of block printing and of the incorporation of text with image, experiments with what became lianhuanhua date back to 1884.

A third journal became part of the conversation with the publication in 1884 of The Christian Oracle, later to become The Christian Century, with an interdenominational appeal.

Recognised as part of the Spanish East Indies in 1874, the islands were sold to Germany in 1884, and became part of German New Guinea in 1885.

From 1884 until 1906 Old Calabar was the headquarters of the Niger Coast Protectorate, after which Lagos became the main center.

" Quakers " continued to be used interchangeably with " Phillies " from 1884 until 1890, when the team officially became known as the " Phillies ".

Since Maskelyne's observations and calculations were made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, the Greenwich meridian eventually became a common base for longitude worldwide and was adopted internationally as the Prime Meridian in 1884.

* Giuseppe Sarto ( 1835 – 1914 ), appointed Bishop in 1884 before he became Pope Pius X in 1903.

The next year Khleber M. Van Zandt established Tidball, Van Zandt, and Company, which became Fort Worth National Bank in 1884.

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

For a time, he and his friends lived at La Ruche, a residence for struggling artists in Montparnasse where he became friends with Amedeo Modigliani ( 1884 – 1920 ).

Huysmans ' novel À rebours ( Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way ) ( 1884 ) became his most famous, or notorious.

Boston once again became a significant port in trade and fishing when, in 1884, the new dock with its associated wharves on The Haven were constructed.

In 1884, Joseph became the head of the Anderson family.

In 1882 it became the town of Roanoke, and in 1884 it was chartered as the independent city of Roanoke.

As the N & W brought people and jobs, the Town of Roanoke quickly became an independent city in 1884.

It became a fashionable destination for the Austrian imperial family and Austrian nobility and soon more luxury hotels and villas were built, such as the Hotel Kvarner ( 1884 ), the Restaurant Kamelija and the Police station by the Keglević family.

Woodbridge N. Ferris, who later became a Michigan Governor, established Ferris Industrial School in 1884 in Big Rapids.

Joris-Karl Huysmans ' 1884 novel À rebours ( English title: Against Nature ) explored many themes that became associated with the symbolist aesthetic.

His story became the subject of stage melodramas during the 19th century, most notably Dion Boucicault's hugely inaccurate 1884 play Robert Emmet, inaccuracies including Emmet and Sarah being portrayed as Roman Catholics, John Philpot Curran being portrayed as a Unionist, and Emmet being killed onstage by firing squad.

The following year ( 1884 ) she was appointed to a five year position as " Professor Extraordinarius " ( Professor without Chair ) and became the editor of Acta Mathematica.

* Thomas Duperou-Superior: 1882 till 1884 ( became Abbot of Sacred Heart, USA )

" In 1884, Harry Granice purchased the small weekly and it soon became " The Sonoma Index-Tribune.

Land for the City of Attica was purchased in late June, 1884 and became the end of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway.

In 1884, the senior branch of the House of Welf became extinct.

This was a departure from policy since 1884, where the senior active duty military instructor functioned as commandant.

The initial delegation, including ten Class Day officers and led by Edwin Albert Merritt, all members of the Class of 1884, had met in secret during their senior year, with the aid of members of Class of 1883 who were " eager to start a society provided the evil features of the old societies would be eliminated.

He had 25 British officers ( given extra pay and Egyptian ranks a grade or two higher than their British ones ) and a few NCOs, although to Wood ’ s annoyance Lt-Gen Stephenson, commander of the British occupation forces, was confirmed as his senior in June 1884.

Historian Frederick Jackson Turner was the Sentinels Madison correspondent for a year beginning in April 1884 while he finished his senior year at the University of Wisconsin.

In his late teens Hugh took on a senior management role until in 1884, aged 21, he became sole partner of the firm and proprietor of the works.

Alvanley Cricket Club, established in 1884, runs five senior teams and four junior teams ranging from under 9s to under 18s.

* 1884 – Otto Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

Elias Lönnrot ( 9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884 ) was a physician, botanist and linguist.

* October 6 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1884 )

* June 18 – Walter C. Alvarez, American physician ( b. 1884 )

* May 21 – František Chvostek, Moravian physician ( d. 1884 )

Otto Fritz Meyerhof ForMemRS ( April 12, 1884 – October 6, 1951 ) was a German-born physician and biochemist.

* William James Erasmus Wilson ( 1809 – 1884 ), physician and surgeon

Litomyšl is the birthplace of Bedřich Smetana ( 1824 – 1884 ), composer, August Jilek ( 1819 – 1898 ), physician and oceanographer, Arne Novák, critic and historian of literature, Hubert Gordon Schauer, literary critic, and Karel Píč ( 1920-1995 ), Esperanto writer, author of the innovative autobiographical novel " La Litomiŝla Tombejo " ( The Litomyšl Cemetery ).

* Ludwig Kohl-Larsen ( 1884 – 1969 ), a German physician, amateur anthropologist, and explorer

In 1884 he abandoned teaching and started practice as a physician in Stuttgart.

Corydon McAlmont Wassell ( July 4, 1884 – May 12, 1958 ) was a former United States Navy physician.

In 1884, he became staff physician at the Friedrich Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, and four years later became professor at the University of Greifswald.

In 1881, he settled in Cambridge, and took up medical teaching, investigation, and practice, and in 1884, when he graduated M. D., became physician to Addenbrooke's Hospital.

* Alexander Wood ( physician ) ( 1817 – 1884 ), physician and inventor of the hypodermic needle

Alexander Wood ( 10 December 181726 February 1884 ), was a Scottish physician.

Frederick's own son, Frederick Henry Horatio Akbar Mahomed ( c. 1849 – 1884 ), became an internationally known physician, who worked at Guy's Hospital in London, and made substantial contributions to the study of high blood pressure.

One of the first infirmaries in the world, it was founded by physician Alexander Monro, and was partly demolished in 1884.

The building is named for Dr. Harry M. Lackey ( university physician from 1921 to 1953 ), Bishop Benjamin F. Lee ( president of Wilberforce University from 1876 to 1884 ), Benjamin F. Lee, Jr. ( a faculty member ), and Benjamin F. Lee, III ( physician who served the campus and the community ).

* Alfons Maria Jakob ( 1884 – 1931 ), German physician

Anton Casimir Dilger ( 13 February 1884 – 17 October 1918 ) was a German-American physician and the main proponent of the German biological warfare sabotage program during World War I.

Karl von Vierordt ( July 1, 1818, Lahr, Baden – November 22, 1884, Tübingen ) was a German physician.

Louis Couty ( 13 January 1854, Nantes, France – 22 November 1884, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ) was a French physician and physiologist.