Rawlinson's published works include four volumes of cuneiform inscriptions, published under his direction between 1870 and 1884 by the trustees of the British Museum ; The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun ( 1846 – 51 ) and Outline of the History of Assyria ( 1852 ), both reprinted from the Asiatic Society's journals ; A Commentary on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylon and Assyria ( 1850 ); Notes on the Early History of Babylonia ( 1854 ); and England and Russia in the East ( 1875 ).

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

As there was then no spare room at the British Museum, the trustees secured the suite of rooms at 118 Victoria Street, Westminster ( in which Christy himself had lived ) and here the collection was exhibited, under the care of A. W. Franks, until 1884.

It was named in 1886 after American industrialist Cyrus McCormick ( 1809 – 1884 ), who had served as a member of the seminary's board of trustees.

In 1868, the academy was incorporated and in 1884 it was chartered: the trustees of the Academy received permission from the state legislature to “ establish a Literary College ” and to confer diplomas, honors, and degrees.

* 1884 – J. C. Squire, British poet, writer, and historian ( d. 1958 )

* Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington ( 1807 – 1884 ), British soldier and nobleman

Author Jerome Clark argues that the Jacko Affair, involving an 1884 newspaper report of an apelike creature captured in British Columbia, was a hoax.

* 1884 – William Swainson, British attorney and Attorney General of New Zealand ( b. 1809 )

In 1884, the United Kingdom established the protectorate of British Somaliland through various treaties with the northern Somali States, including the Warsangali Empire.

The tradition is itself named after Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ), a British civil servant and scholar of magic.

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 ).

Prismatic Brown Powder is a large-grained product the Rottweil Company introduced in 1884 in Germany, which was adopted by the British Royal Navy shortly thereafter.

The chiefs of Akwa Akpa placed themselves under British protection in 1884.

* 1884 – Harry Ferguson, British aviator and inventor ( d. 1960 )

* 1820 – Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician ( d. 1884 )

That turned out not to be so, and Philip Gell of the OUP forced the promotion of Murray's assistant Henry Bradley ( hired by Murray in 1884 ), who worked independently in the British Museum in London, beginning in 1888.

On 6 November 1884, a British protectorate was proclaimed over the southern coast of New Guinea and its adjacent islands.

Meanwhile, in 1948, under pressure from their World War II allies and to the dismay of the Somalis, the British " returned " the Haud ( an important Somali grazing area that was presumably ' protected ' by British treaties with the Somalis in 1884 and 1886 ) and the Ogaden to Ethiopia, based on a treaty they signed in 1897 in which the British ceded Somali territory to the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik in exchange for his help against plundering by Somali clans.

In 1948, under pressure from their World War II allies and to the dismay of the Somalis, the British " returned " the Hawd ( an important Somali grazing area that was presumably ' protected ' by British treaties with the Somalis in 1884 and 1886 ) and the Ogaden to Ethiopia, based on a treaty they signed in 1897 in which the British ceded Somali territory to the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik in exchange for his help against the Somali clans, by plundering the clans.

Relations between the Indian immigrants, and both the British, and the black population were generally strained, and occasionally erupted into violence such as the 1884 Hosay massacre.

* June 1 – Hugh Walpole, British writer ( b. 1884 )

** Joseph Boxhall, British sailor, fourth officer of the RMS Titanic ( b. 1884 )

* September 6 – Guy Bolton, British playwright ( b. 1884 )

This period also saw the first coloured British Virgin Islander, Fredrick Augustus Pickering, appointed as President in 1884.

After the Germans annexed Damaraland and Namaqualand ( modern Namibia ) in 1884, the British annexed Bechuanaland in 1885.

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

Image: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 029. jpg | Edgar Degas, La Toilette ( Woman Combing Her Hair ), c. 1884 – 1886, pastel on paper, Pushkin Museum, Moscow

Looted by Prussian troops in 1795, it changed hands several times during the 19th century until it was purchased in 1884 for the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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

Seurat made several studies for the large painting including a smaller version, Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte ( 1884 – 1885 ), that is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.

File: Georges Seurat 034. jpg | Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte ,, 1884 – 1885, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

La Toilette ( Woman Combing Her Hair ), c. 1884 – 1886, pastel on paper, by Edgar Degas, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

File: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 042. jpg | Kneeling Woman, 1884, Pushkin Museum, Moscow

Arrangement in Pink, Red and Purple, 1883 – 1884, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Gallo-Roman limestone statue of Telesphorus discovered in 1884 in Moulézan ( southern France ), now exhibited in the Archeological Museum of Nîmes.

P. T. Barnum was one of the earliest benefactors of Tufts College, and the Barnum Museum of Natural History was constructed in 1884 with funds donated by him to house his collection of animal specimens and the stuffed hide of Jumbo the elephant, who would become the university's mascot.

The Shalem Colony and Oahspe Museum commemorates the utopian Shalem Colony that existed near Las Cruces from 1884 to 1907 and the Oahspe bible that they used.

The main building of the Black Diamond Historical Museum is the former train station, which served the Columbia & Puget Sound Railway 1884 – 1916 and the Pacific Coast Railway 1916 – 1951.

File: Van Gogh-Die Kirche von Nuenen mit Kirchgängern. jpeg | Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen, 1884, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam ( F25 )

Needle Lace borders from the Erzgebirge mountains of Germany in 1884, displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Needle Lace, detail

After her death, he married Edith Russell of Boston, whose 1884 portrait is in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

La Estacion Historic Area ( The Old Train Station Complex ) contains the Old Train Station and Railway Museum historic complex, which at some point in 1884 formed the largest rail hub and warehouses in all Latin America.

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The Slater Memorial Museum, located on the campus of the Norwich Free Academy, is named for John Fox Slater ( 1815 – 1884 ), corporator of The Norwich Free Academy for twenty years.

Leeds's Political Memoranda were edited by Oscar Browning for the Camden Society in 1884, and there are eight volumes of his official correspondence in the British Museum.

The Hume collection of birds as it went to the British museum in 1884 consisted of 82, 000 specimens of which 75, 577 were finally placed in the Museum.

* Pitt Rivers Museum in the University of Oxford, England founded in 1884 by Augustus Pitt Rivers ( 1827 – 1900 ), English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist

Other building of interest are the Siege Museum, originally built in 1884 as a marketplace and the Town Hall, damaged by Boer artillery during the Second Boer War.