The Knights strongly supported the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Contract Labor Law of 1885, as did many other labor groups, although the group did accept most others, including skilled and unskilled women of any profession.

In 1885 his criticism of the Tonkin disaster contributed strongly to the fall of the Ferry cabinet.

The movement was led by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury ( 1801 – 1885 ) who was strongly supported by Tory radicals.

He strongly opposed the execution of Louis Riel in 1885 ; this event helped him win popular support, and the Quebec Conservative Party lost support because its federal counterparts had ordered Riel's execution.

Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.

* 1885 – Indian National Congress a political party of India is founded in Bombay, British India.

Howard of the Connecticut National Guard had an interest in the company manufacturing Gatling guns, and took a personally-owned Gatling gun to Saskatchewan in Canada in 1885 for use with the Canadian military against the Métis during Louis Riel's North-West Rebellion.

The denial of equal status to Indians was the immediate stimulus for the formation in 1885 of the Indian National Congress, initially loyal to the Empire but committed from 1905 to increased self-government and by 1930 to outright independence.

Rocky Mountain National Park became Canada's first national park in 1885.

Beginning with Sir John A. Macdonald's National Policy ( 1879 ) and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway ( 1875 – 1885 ) through Northern Ontario and the Canadian Prairies to British Columbia, Ontario manufacturing and industry flourished.

File: Girl with a Hoop. JPG | Girl With a Hoop, 1885, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

" The National Park Service, in a 2000 report, however, deemed this a legend traced to an 1885 fundraising pamphlet, and that the statue was most likely conceived in 1870.

* National Girls ' School ( 1818-c. 1825, 1844 – 1874, 1885 -?

The Battle of Fish Creek National Historic Site, the name has been changed to Tourond's Coulee / Fish Creek National Historic Site to preserve the battlefield of April 24, 1885, at la coulée des Tourond, Madame Tourond ’ s home, early Red River cart Fish Creek Trail and the site of Middleton ’ s camp and graveyard.

Frenchman Butte is a National Historic Site of Canada, which locates the theatre of the 1885 battle staged between Cree and Canadian troops.

' Seeking a contest with the Whigs, Chamberlain and Sir Charles Dilke presented their resignations to Gladstone on 20 May 1885, when the Cabinet rejected Chamberlain's scheme for the creation of National Councils in England, Scotland and Wales and when a proposed Land Purchase Bill did not have any provision for the reform of Irish local government.

The county courthouse, listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its monumental architecture, was constructed between 1885 and 1889.

Joseph Pyle constructed many of the commercial buildings along the present-day Exchange Place, including the Roselyn Theater Building in 1867 ( torn down in 1980 ), the National Bank of West Grove building in 1883 and the K & P Building in 1885.

* Biography at the Dictionary of National Biography ( 1885 )

The modern Academy of Athens ( modern ) | Academy of Athens, next to the University of Athens and the National Library forming ' the Trilogy ', designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Schinkel's Danish pupil Theophil Freiherr von Hansen | Theofil Hansen, 1885, in Ionic order | Greek Ionic, academically correct even to the polychrome sculpture.

Image of the delegates to the first meeting of the Indian National Congress in Bombay, 1885

* Sir James Thornhill ( Dictionary of National Biography, 1885 – 1900, Volume 57 ).

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.

Stephen also served as the first editor ( 1885 – 91 ) of the Dictionary of National Biography.

According to the National Park Service, the caves were, most likely, discovered by Absalom Lehman in 1885.

The Dictionary of National Biography ( DNB ) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

The first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography appeared on 1 January 1885.

Philetus W. Norris ( August 17, 1821-January 14, 1885 ) was the second superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and was the first person to be paid for that position.

By then he was politically active, having campaigned for the Liberal Party in the 1885 election, attracted by Joseph Chamberlain's " unauthorised programme " of reforms.

According to a tract published in 1885, the Liberal Normal School and Business Institute was " located in the liberal town, taught by liberal teachers and courted only the patronage of liberal patrons.

The Liberal split made the Unionists ( the Liberal Unionists sat in coalition with the Conservatives after 1895 and would eventually merge with them ) the dominant force in British politics until 1906, with strong support in Lancashire, Liverpool & Manchester, Birmingham ( the fiefdom of its former mayor Joseph Chamberlain who as recently as 1885 had been a furious enemy of the Conservatives ) and the House of Lords where many Whigs sat ( a second Home Rule Bill would pass the Commons in 1893 only to be overwhelmingly defeated in the Lords ).

In 1880 he joined the Liberal Party and was Colonial Secretary under William Gladstone between 1882 and 1885.

In 1885, Fukuda Hideko and Oi Kentaro, amongst other Liberal reformers, began advocating a plot to “ sail to Korea and create a disturbance large enough to undo the Sino-Japanese accord, Convention of Tientsin, concluded by Ito Hirobumi and Li Hung-chang in 1885 ”; this later became known as the Osaka Incident of 1885.

The " home rule " movement for a Scottish Assembly was first taken up in 1853 by a body close to the Conservative Party, complaining about the fact that Ireland received more support from the British Government than Scotland and soon began to receive Liberal Party backing, In 1885, the Post of Secretary for Scotland and the Scottish Office were re-established to promote Scotland's interests and voice its grievances to the British Parliament.

He became Prime Minister in June 1885 when the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone resigned, and he held the office until January 1886.

He also fought the 1885 election as leader of the Liberal Party, quietly negotiating with members of the new Reform Party to ensure a Reform victory, and laying the groundwork for a future coalition.

Selborne was assistant private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Childers, from 1882 to 1885, when he was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for East Hampshire.

His son, Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth ( 1844 – 1939 ), the eldest, became a well-known Liberal politician, sitting in parliament for Hastings from 1869 to 1880 and for the Clitheroe division of Lancashire from 1885 till 1902, when he was created Baron Shuttleworth.

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.

In 1885, it was held by the Liberal Party but from 1886 to 1906 it was held by the Conservative Party before being held by the Liberal Party again until 1910 when the Conservative Party regained the area which they held until 1918 under the representation of Viscount Lewisham.

The Unionists were supported by the Conservative Party, whereas from 1885 the Liberal Party was committed to enacting some form of Home Rule.

It was strengthened by the prominent part he played in the events immediately preceding the fall of the Liberal government in 1885 ; and when Hugh Childers's budget resolutions were defeated by the Conservatives, aided by about half the Parnellites, Lord Randolph Churchill's admirers were justified in proclaiming him to have been the " organiser of victory ".

Davies was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Cardigan Boroughs in 1874 and held the seat until 1885, when the constituency was reorganised under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.

In 1885 Haldane was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire, a seat he held until 1911.

Peel was elected Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Warwick in the 1865 general election and held the seat until 1885 when it was replaced under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.

He was recognized as one of the ablest and most effective leaders of the Liberal party and when, after a brief interval in 1885, Gladstone returned to office in 1886, Harcourt was made Chancellor of the Exchequer, an office which he again filled from 1892 to 1895.