* 1806 – Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor ( d. 1885 )

Seat belts were invented by George Cayley in the early 19th century, though Edward J. Claghorn of New York, was granted the first patent (, on February 10, 1885 for a safety belt ).

The choice was probably also a tribute to the future Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, who opened Leeds Infirmary in 1867 and the Yorkshire College buildings ( now the University of Leeds ) in 1885.

In 1885, Michelson began a collaboration with Edward Morley, spending considerable time and money to confirm with higher accuracy Fizeau's 1851 experiment on Fresnel's drag coefficient, to improve on Michelson's 1881 experiment, and to establish the wavelength of light as a standard of length.

Valentine is named for Edward K. Valentine, who as a congressman from Nebraska, was the chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture during his six years in office ( 1879 – 1885 ).

* Charles Edward Smith, Baptist pastor in Fredonia from 1885 – 1900

In 1885, they decided to use this power, as Edward Press, the owner of Bacton Wood mill, and a trader with a fleet of wherries, wished to purchase it.

John Edensor Littlewood was born in 1885, the son of Edward Thornton Littlewood and Sylvia Ackland.

* Online Version of The Virgin of the World of Hermes Trismegistus, version translated by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland in 1885 A. D.

** Edward George Honey, Australian journalist ( born 1885 )

* Edward MacCabe, Archbishop of Dublin ( 1879 – 1885 ) and Cardinal

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

Edward Vivian " Vance " Palmer ( 28 August 1885 – 15 July 1959 ) was a novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic.

After the 1885 collapse of the financial house John J. Cisco & Son, in which Hetty was the largest investor, investigation revealed that Edward had not only been the firm's greatest debtor, but that management of the firm had surreptitiously used Hetty's wealth as the basis for their loans to Edward.

* Edward Gordon ( politician ) ( 1885 – 1964 ), New Zealand politician

Gevorg Armenian ( 1920-), Anahit Tsitsikian ( 1926 – 1999 ), Arno Babadjanyan ( 1921 – 1983 ), Barseg Kanatchian ( 1885 – 1967 ), Edward Mirzoyan ( 1921 -), Boris Parsadanian ( 1925 – 1997 ), Ashot Zohrabyan ( 1945 -), and Aram Satian ( 1947 –) represent other Soviet era Armenian composers.

The Vooruit was founded in Ghent by Edward Anseele and appeared the first time on 31 August 1884, just before the foundation of the Belgian Labour Party ( Dutch: Belgische Werklieden Partij ) in 1885.

The result of such analysis also agrees nicely with the runic alphabets recorded by Edward Larsson in 1885.

Edward Larsson's notes ( 1885 )

Edward Larsson's runic alphabets from 1885

* Sir Edward Sullivan ( 1883 – 1885 )

* Augustus Edward Hobart-Hampden, 6th Earl of Buckinghamshire ( 1793 – 1885 )

The results were published in 1885 in his Uranometria Nova Oxoniensis, and their importance was recognized by the bestowal in 1886 upon him, conjointly with Professor Pickering, of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Morse's oldest daughter Susan Walker Morse ( 1821 – 1885 ), would often visit her uncle Charles Pickering Walker who owned the Hacienda Concordia in the town of Guayama.

The Kittitas County Fair officially began in 1885, and has been held at its current location since 1923.

Eventually effective political organisation for working people was achieved through the trades unions who, after the extensions of the franchise in 1867 and 1885, began to support socialist political parties that later merged to became the British Labour Party.

In 1885, Zamenhof graduated from a university and began his practice as a doctor in Veisiejai and after 1886 as an ophthalmologist in Płock and Vienna.

An article found within the pages of the Musical Courier states that Lyon & Healy began manufacturing instruments in 1885.

In 1885, when the Volta Associates were sure that they had a number of practical inventions, they filed patent applications and began to seek out investors.

In 1885 a US firm, the Christian Literature Company, first of Buffalo, then New York, began to issue the volumes in a reorganised form, edited by the episcopalian bishop of New York, A. Cleveland Coxe.

Because of these incursions, the Qing government began constructing a series of coastal defenses and on 12 October 1885 Taiwan was made a province, with Liu Mingchuan serving as the first governor.

Construction began in 1885 and the monument was inaugurated in 1911, although features were subsequently added or altered during the fascist period.

In 1885 and 1886 Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy and Jane Dieulafoy began the first French excavations.

After taking classes in theatre and singing, she began her career as an entertainer in 1885.

Strauss's style began to truly develop and change when, in 1885, he met Alexander Ritter, a noted composer and violinist, and the husband of one of Richard Wagner's nieces.

Friese-Greene realised that glass plates would never be a practical medium for true moving pictures and in 1885 he began to experiment with oiled paper and by 1887 was experimenting with celluloid as a medium for motion picture cameras.

This began in the 19th century with such events as the Panjdeh Incident, a military skirmish that occurred in 1885 when Russian forces seized Afghan territory south of the Oxus River around an oasis at Panjdeh.

YMCA camping began in 1885 when Camp Bell Witch ( later known as Camp Dudley ) was established by G A. Sanford and Sumner F. Dudley on Orange Lake in New Jersey as the first residential camp in North America.

The earliest recorded cargo cult was the Tuka Movement that began in Fiji in 1885.

* The Texas Central Railroad began service in Comanche County in 1885, and began carrying cattle and cotton to market.

The High Street is dominated by Walthamstow Market, which began in 1885, and occupies all but the last 100 metres of the street.

Construction on the first courthouse began in 1885 and was completed in 1886.

Firth began as a Swedish settlement in 1885.

Lily Lake began as a milk stop when dairy farmers shipped their products to Chicago on the Chicago Great Western Railway ( established in 1885 ).

The years 1885, ' 86, ' 87, ' 88 and the first half of 1889, were boom times and growing years for early day Ulysses ; The second half of 1889 brought drought, and the boom began to fade.

Rail transportation began to slowly replace the river's prominence as a mode of transportation as the Chesapeake & Ohio ( C & O ) railroad began construction of a bridge across the Big Sandy River linking Catlettsburg with Kenova, West Virginia in 1885.