* 1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U. S. history.

The popularity of the missions also stemmed largely from Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona and the subsequent efforts of Charles Fletcher Lummis, William Randolph Hearst, and other members of the " Landmarks Club of Southern California " to restore three of the southern missions in the early 20th century ( San Juan Capistrano, San Diego de Alcalá, and San Fernando ; the Pala Asistencia was also restored by this effort ).

While other major singings still survive, The Big Singing, begun in 1884, is the only singing in the world to use the William Walker Southern Harmony system of shape-note singing.

* The Niles Canyon Railway Sunol Depot was built in 1884, and is the last surviving example of a Southern Pacific standard design known as a " One-Story Combination Depot # 7.

The Southern Pacific Company was organized in 1884 as a holding company for the Central Pacific-Southern Pacific system.

* March 17, 1884: The Southern Pacific is incorporated in Kentucky.

File: Krøyer Sommerdag ved Skagens Sønderstrand 1884. jpg | Summer Day on Skagen's Southern Beach 1884

Early soccer leagues in the U. S. mostly used the name " football ," for example: the American Football Association ( founded in 1884 ), the American Amateur Football Association ( 1893 ), the American League of Professional Football ( 1894 ), the National Association Foot Ball League ( 1895 ), and the Southern New England Football League ( 1914 ).

* 1884: L ' Étoile du Sud, written with Jules Verne, translated as The Southern Star

The opening of Banagher Railway station in 1884, as the terminus of the Clara to Banagher branch of the Great Southern & Western Railway Company, brought some improvement, with a number of passenger and goods trains every day.

A railway station opened in Banagher in 1884 as the terminus for the Clara to Banagher line of the Great Southern & Western Railway Company.

The 1884 board of surgeons report recommended that the Central Branch was already too large and should not be expanded ; the severe climate at the Eastern and Northwestern branches should limit their growth ; and the Southern branch should not grow over 1500 – 2000 members.

Shortly thereafter, Eastwood received the contract for the design of a multiple-arch dam to supersede the 1884 Big Bear Valley Arch Dam near San Bernardino in Southern California.

* A Geological Reconnaissance in Southern Oregon ( 1884 )

* History of Southern Oregon: Pacific Coast -- by A. G. Walling 1884

He undertook two expeditions in Central Africa into the Southern Congo Basin, the first between 1874 and 1876 and the second between 1880 and 1884.

Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the movement, spent most of the years from 1884 to 1905 as a soldier in Southern Africa.

Richard and Jenny Taylor's children were Alice Marriott Edgar ( b. 1876, London ), twins Richard and Jennifer Marriott Edgar ( b. 1878, London ), following which they relocated to Scotland, where George was born, then they returned to Southern England and London once more, having Joseph Marriott Edgar in 1884 and Adeline Alice Edgar in 1886, both in London.

NSU was founded in 1884 as the Louisiana State Normal School to train teachers.

In 1884, the Louisiana State Legislature by Act 51 created the Louisiana State Normal School for the preparation of teachers.

On April 7, 1884, the state of Virginia acquired the property of the Farmville Female College, and in October of the same year the Normal School opened with 110 students enrolled, making it the first state institution of higher learning for women in Virginia.

In 1884, the trustees of Pine Grove Normal Academy in Grove City amended the academy charter to change the name to Grove City College.

From its founding in 1884 until 1944, Northwestern State University of Louisiana at Natchitoches was the Louisiana State Normal ( Louisiana State Normal School until 1918, Louisiana State Normal College from 1918 to 1944 ).

Daniel Grout was born at St. Thomas, Ontario, and graduated from St. Thomas Normal School in 1884.

Trine was founded in 1884 as Tri-State Normal College, and retained the reference to the " Tri-State " area for more than 120 years — so named because of the school's location in Indiana and its proximity to Michigan and Ohio.

He read law and entered Columbia Law School in 1882, and he graduated in 1884 with highest honors.

In fact, the first proven occurrence of the term derives from a review of Reclus ' Nouvelle géographie universelle from 1884, written by Paul de Rousiers, a member of the Le Play School.

Between 1884 and 1886, William attended the Metropolitan School of Art — now the National College of Art and Design — in Thomas Street.

The first squash court in North America appeared at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire in 1884.

While in Hong Kong in 1883 he studied at the Diocesan Boys ' School and from 1884 to 1886 he was at the government Central school.

He graduated from Marietta College in 1884, and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1886.

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

Halma ( from the Greek word ἅλμα meaning " jump ") is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School, George Howard Monks.

The first Springerville School House was dedicated September 3, 1884.

* Will Cuppy ( 1884 – 1949 ), humorist and journalist, was born in Auburn, graduated from Auburn High School and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.

Dodge Center High School held its first commencement exercises in 1884.

He has held the following positions: 1863-2007, Member of Lafayette School Board ; 1980 – 1984, Lafayette City councilman ; 1884 – 1990 and 1995 – 1996, Mayor.

Ashland is immediately east of the boundary of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation and the location of the St. Labre Indian Catholic High School, established in 1884 as a boarding school by a Catholic mission to the Cheyenne.

Some of the things that still link Bloomingdale to its past are its two churches ( Methodist and Baptist ), the Samuel R. Donald School ( originally built in 1886 ) and the Bloomingdale Cornet Band continuously active since 1884.

In 1880, the now Chemawa Indian School opened in the city to train Native Americans, but moved to Salem in 1884.

Plymouth's Central High School was built in 1884 and was destroyed by fire in 1905.

The first Central High School was built in 1884 by Samuel Livingston French and his Plymouth Planing Mill Co.

It was this company which built the old Central High School in 1884.

Immaculate Conception School, founded in 1884 and the only Catholic school in Starr County, provides a faith-based pre-K through eighth-grade education to approximately 250 students each year.

He was assistant master at Charterhouse School between 1884 and 1901.

Nicholson Trent Ironworks ( 1840s ), Northgate Railway Station ( 1851 ), North End Wesleyan Chapel ( 1868 ), St. Leonard's Anglican Church ( 1873 ), Baptist Chapel ( 1876 ), Primitive Methodist Chapel ( 1878 ), Newark Hospital ( 1881 ), Ossington Coffee Palace ( 1882 ), Gilstrap Free Library ( 1883 ), Market Hall ( 1884 ), Unitarian Chapel ( 1884 ), The Fire Station ( 1889 ), Waterworks ( 1898 ) and the School of Science and Art ( 1900 ).