The battalion played an important role in Colonel Jacques Duchesne's offensive in March 1885 that captured the key Chinese positions of La Table and Fort Bamboo and disengaged Keelung.

On May 2, 1885, the Cree war chief Fine-Day defeated Lieutenant Colonel William Otter at the Battle of Cut Knife near Battleford.

Colonel Jacob Taylor purchased from Enoch Talbert in 1885, with visions of building a seaside resort for the rich and famous.

Iaeger was incorporated in 1917 and named for Colonel William G. W. Iaeger, whose son, Dr. William R. Iaeger, had a plat of the present town made about the year 1885.

He also edited the Clarke Papers ( 1891 – 1901 ), and Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson ( 1885 ), and wrote an introduction to the Stuart Tracts, 1603 – 1693 ( 1903 ), besides contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography.

On 22 August 1885 he was made Honorary Colonel of the 5th ( Isle of Wight, Princess Beatrice's ) Volunteer Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment, In early 1886 it was announced in The Times that he would be made a Captain in the 1st Life Guards, but the Secretary of State for War denied knowledge of this in the House of Commons and the appointment did not take place.

The French occupied Keelung from 1 October 1884 to 22 June 1885, and several battles were fought during this period between Liu Ming-ch ' uan's Army of Northern Formosa and Colonel Jacques Duchesne's Formosa Expeditionary Corps.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

Ernest George Howe ( 1828 – 1885 ), sixth son of the first Earl, was a Colonel in the British Army.

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, upon returning to Washington from a visit to Japan, initiated the idea of cherry trees in Washington, approaching the Superintendent of Public Building and Grounds ( then Colonel Spencer Cosby ) in 1885.

* Colonel François de La Rocque ( 1885 – 1946 ), French political leader.

Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby ( 3 March 1842 – 17 January 1885 ) was an English traveller and soldier.

* Juan Bautista Thorne, b. March 8, 1807 d. August 8, 1885 – Army Colonel, fought in important battles as: Pozos, Patagones, Martín García, Vuelta de Obligado and Quebracho.

The first governor of Gobernación Nacional del Chubut was Colonel Luis Jorge Fontana, who traveled around the whole extension attributed to Chubut commanding a numerous group of Welsh immigrants in 1885.

* Colonel Joseph Chiles, ( 1810 – 1885 ), an early California pioneer and guide

An 1885 book about Western Scotland with a chapter on Roy's life has him a Colonel in the British Army who was trusted with the work of mapping the Highlands in 1747 by his commanding general.

He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1881 and Colonel in 1885.

On May 1, 1885, Humboldt became the site of a large supply depot under Maj. Lt .- Colonel G. T. Denison of the Governor Generals ' Body Guard.

Colonel Richard Wadeson VC ( 31 July 1826 – 24 January 1885 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Colonel William Francis Frederick Waller VC ( 20 August 1839 – 29 January 1885 ) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Colonel George Thomas Clark ( 26 May 1809 – 6 April 1885 ) was a British engineer and antiquary, particularly associated with the management of the Dowlais Iron Company.

His father Petro Ivanovych Skoropadsky ( 1834 – 1885 ) was a Cavalry Guard Colonel and a veteran of the Caucasian War ( Subjugation of Circassia, 1863 ).

To the direct descendants of the Jauchs belong furthermore the German painter and head of the Nazarene movement Johann Friedrich Overbeck ( 1789 – 1869 ), the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz ( 1846 – 1916 ), Lieutenant Colonel Otto von Feldmann ( 1873 – 1945 ), as Feldmann Pasha chief of military operations department at the Ottoman General Headquarters in World War I, SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld ( 1885 – 1946 ), inter alia commander of the escalade of Prague's Ss.

* Colonel Daniel Morgan ( 1885 – 86 ), Saratoga Battle Monument, Saratoga National Historical Park, Victory Mills, New York.

The sites chosen were the Elisha Sharp House ( also known as the Sharp-Wasson-Worth House, c. 1825 ), the Stewart House ( 1830 ), the R. H. Johnson Stable, the Mount Zion church and Cemetery ( 1830 ), Zeigler's Mill ( 1850, previously Gettys Mill ), the Washington Ferry ( 1808 ), the Pisah Church ( 1818 ), the old gymnasium ( c. 1822 ), the old Meigs County Courthouse ( 1904 ), the old Volunteer Electric Cooperative BUilding ( 1935 ), the Ashley House ( 1885 ), and the Sam Eaves Store ( c. 1861 ).

It was founded in 1885 by two Swedes and a Norwegian, John and Carl Hessel and John A. Johnson and a post office was established in September 1888.

Image: Collingwood town hall 1. jpg | Collingwood Town Hall ( 1885 ), Melbourne, Australia, George R Johnson, architect

* Waldo P. Johnson ( 1817 – 1885 ), U. S. senator and Confederate congressman

* Edward Johnson ( British politician ) ( 1834 – 1895 ), Member of Parliament for Exeter, 1880 – 1885

In 1885, President Hilary R. W. Johnson appointed him Sub-Treasurer of Montserrado County, which post he held for 5 years.

Outtrim Avenue between Johnson Drvie and the Calwell Shopping Centre is named after Alfred Richard Outtrim who represented Maryborough from 1885 to 1920.

Interestingly, Benjamin Johnson Lang himself appeared as soloist in a complete performance of the concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on February 20, 1885, under Wilhelm Gericke.

Johnson and a group of Milwaukee investors incorporated the Johnson Electric Service Company in 1885 to manufacture, install and service automatic temperature regulation systems for buildings.

Between 1885 and 1911, Professor Johnson delved into many other areas, including electric storage batteries, steam and gas powered automobiles, huge pneumatic clock towers and wireless telegraph communication.

* 1885 Johnson Electric Service Company founded

* R. A. Johnson, The Penjdeh Incident, 1885 in Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, volume XXIV, 100, ( April 1999 ): 28-48.

* History of Baptist Churches in Maryland, 1742 – 1885. by Harvey Johnson ( 1842 – 1923 ), Baltimore: J. F.

* 1884 – 1885: Berlin Conference, when the western powers divided Africa.

In 1885, the Santa Fe railroad came through, and the town was divided into individual lots.

The old municipality of Eiker was divided into Øvre Eiker and Nedre Eiker on 1 July 1885.

( The municipality of Eiker was divided in 1885.

The old municipality of Eiker was divided into Nedre Eiker and Øvre Eiker on 1 July 1885.

( The municipality of Eiker was divided in 1885.

The Berlin agreement of February 26, 1885 allowed the colonial powers to establish protectorates in Black Africa ( the last region to be divided among them ) by diplomatic notification, even without actual possession on the ground.

His Wolverhampton constituency was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and he was then elected for Wolverhampton South, switching to the Liberal Unionist party in 1886.

Prefectures were gradually merged to reduce the number to 37 by 1881 ; a few were then divided to give a total of 45 by 1885.

There was an increase in the membership to 59 in 1885 when some district boards were divided and others were given more members.

For elections to parliament, the borough was divided into four constituencies, established in 1885:

For parliamentary elections, Bethnal Green was divided into two constituencies in 1885.

At the 1880 general election Fowler was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the borough Wolverhampton, a seat he held until the borough was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.

There are three watercourses near Susa, and scholars are divided on which is indicated, although archaeology by Loftus in 1851 and Dieulafoy in 1885 helped shed some light.

There are three watercourses near Susa, and scholars are divided on which is indicated, although archaeology by Loftus in 1851 and Dieulafoy in 1885 helped shed some light.

When Sutton Coldfield was reorganised in 1885 ( under the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 ), Boldmere was created as a ward, before being divided into Boldmere West and Boldmere East in 1935.

In 1880, Akers-Douglas was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for East Kent and held it until it was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.

When the Sheffield constituency was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, he was elected as MP for Sheffield Brightside, a seat he held until his death.

The following year, he was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Londonderry, a seat he held for little more than a year before the constituency was divided, and in 1885 he was also for a period the island's Attorney-General.

Oscar Montelius, who coined the term used for the period, divided it into six distinct sub-periods in his piece Om tidsbestämning inom bronsåldern med särskilt avseende på Skandinavien (" On Bronze Age dating with particular focus on Scandinavia ") published in 1885 which is still in wide use.

He was elected Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Southwark in 1880 and held the seat until it was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.

In 1885, the para ceased to be issued, and the piastre was divided into tenths ( ' oshr el-qirsh ).

It was divided into Nedre Eiker and Øvre Eiker on July 1, 1885.

In the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885 Berkshire ( excluding Reading ) was divided into three parts, Northern ( Abingdon ), Southern ( Newbury ), and Eastern ( Wokingham ), returning one member each.

The constituency was created in 1885, when the previous 3-member constituency of Berkshire was divided into four single member constituencies, this one also being described as the ' Eastern division of Berkshire '.