Michelson suffered a nervous breakdown in September 1885, from which he recovered in October 1885.

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.

Through the collaboration of William Morris with textile manufacturer Thomas Wardle, Wardle's wife Elizabeth, who was an accomplished seamstress, embarked on creating a reproduction in 1885.

His chief publications are his translation of the History of Herodotus ( in collaboration with Sir Henry Rawlinson and Sir John Gardiner Wilkinson ), 1858 – 60 ; The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, 1862 – 67 ; The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy ( Parthian ), 1873 ; The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy ( Sassanian ), 1875 ; Manual of Ancient History, 1869 ; Historical Illustrations of the Old Testament, 1871 ; The Origin of Nations, 1877 ; History of Ancient Egypt, 1881 ; Egypt and Babylon, 1885 ; History of Phoenicia, 1889 ; Parthia, 1893 ; Memoir of Major-General Sir HC Rawlinson, 1898.

John Edensor Littlewood ( 9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977 ) was a British mathematician, best known for the results achieved in collaboration with G. H. Hardy.

In 1885, Winchester entered the single-shot market with the Model 1885 rifle, which John Browning had designed in 1878 ( the beginning of the fruitful 20-year Winchester-Browning collaboration ).

He was well-recognized by his peers ; of ten buildings named by American architects as the best in 1885, fully half were his: besides Trinity Church, there were Albany City Hall, Sever Hall at Harvard University, the New York State Capitol in Albany ( as a collaboration ), and Town Hall in North Easton, Massachusetts.

A play, L ' Étoile, written by him in collaboration with André Gill ( 1840 – 1885 ), was produced in 1873 ; but Richepin was virtually unknown until the publication, in 1876, of a volume of verse entitled Chanson des gueux, when his outspokenness resulted in his being imprisoned and fined for outrage aux mœurs.

The collaboration between Bassett-Lowke and B M C produced a model fleet of every class in the British navy from 1885 through 1916 including tugs, troop ships and the royal yacht.

The play had originally been written in 1885, as a collaboration with William Archer ; but the two fell out and this first attempt was abandoned.

His most successful collaboration was with Henry Pettitt, with whom he created a substantial body of hits, including In the Ranks ( 1883, 457 performances at the Adelphi Theatre ) and The Harbour Lights ( 1885, 513 performances at the Adelphi ).

Fernand de Brinon, Marquis de Brinon (; 26 August 1885 – 15 April 1947 ) was a French lawyer and journalist who was one of the architects of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II.

He wrote the libretto for Gounod's Le tribut de Zamora ( 1881 ); with Louis Gallet and Édouard Blau he composed the libretto to Massenet's Le Cid ( 1885 ); and, again in collaboration with Cormon, the librettos of Auber's operas, Le premier jour de bonheur ( 1868 ) and Reve d ' amour ( 1869 ).

* Chrestomathie élémentaire de l ' Arabe littéral ( in collaboration with Spiro, 1885 ; 2nd ed., 1892 )

In 1885 Rambaud published, in collaboration with J.

In 1885 he returned to statuary and produced " The Puddler ," " The Hammerer " ( 1886 ), " Firedamp " ( 1889, Brussels Gallery ), " Le Débardeur " ( modeled 1885, many castings made 1889-1905 ), " Ecce Homo " ( 1891 ), " The Old Mine-Horse " ( 1891 ), " The Mower " ( 1892 ), " The Glebe " ( 1892 ), the monument to Father Damien at Louvain ( 1893 ), " Puddler at the Furnace " ( 1893 ), the scheme of decoration for the Botanical Garden of Brussels in collaboration with the sculptor Charles van der Stappen ( 1893 ), " The Horse at the Pond ," in the square in the north-east quarter of Brussels, and two unfinished works, the " Monument to Labour " and the Émile Zola monument, in collaboration with the French sculptor Alexandre Charpentier.

The paintings are iconographic imagery which were produced in collaboration with Oluf Kolsrud ( 1885 – 1945 ), professor of church history.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

In 1885, at the moment when the Amir was in conference with the British viceroy, Lord Dufferin, in India, the news came of a skirmish between Russian and Afghan troops at Panjdeh, over a disputed point in the demarcation of the northwestern frontier of Afghanistan.

They shared a flat with Jackson's brother Adalbert until 1885 when Housman moved to lodgings of his own.

It was a result of the unification with Eastern Rumelia, which happened on 6 September 1885.

Image: Berthe Morisot 004. jpg | Young Girl with Cage, 1885

In 1885 the Broadway commercial district was overrun with telephone, telegraph, and electrical lines.

Image: Claude Monet 050. jpg | Still-Life with Anemones, 1885

Cleveland Blues merged with the St. Louis Maroons UA team in 1885.

In 1885, Young moved with his father to Nebraska, and in the summer of 1887, they returned to Gilmore.

Hilbert obtained his doctorate in 1885, with a dissertation, written under Ferdinand von Lindemann, titled Über invariante Eigenschaften spezieller binärer Formen, insbesondere der Kugelfunktionen (" On the invariant properties of special binary forms, in particular the spherical harmonic functions ").

Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.

In the early years other teams from Wales, Ireland and Scotland also took part in the competition, with Glasgow side Queen's Park losing the final to Blackburn Rovers in 1884 and 1885 before being barred from entering by the Scottish Football Association.

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.

Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, with Yorick's skull ( Photographer: James Lafayette, c. 1885 – 1900 )

Founded in 1856 by James Alexander Holden, in 1885 the establishment combined with the carriage builder Henry Frost to become Holden & Frost.

In November 1885 he went to Newberg, Oregon, to live with his uncle John Minthorn, a frontier physician and businessman whose own son had died the year before.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Girl with a Hoop, 1885

In 1885 Captain Graham with other breeders founded the Irish Wolfhound Club, and the Breed Standard of Points to establish and agree the ideal to which breeders should aspire.

* 1885 – The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.

* 1885 – A peace treaty is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam-most of present-day Vietnam-to France.

In 1885 he warmly supported the project for the reform of the House of Magnates, but on the other hand he jealously defended the inviolability of the Composition of 1867, and on 5 March 1889 in his place in the Upper House spoke against any particularist tampering with the common army.

* The standard history of the state, though only through the Civil War, is Charles Gayarré's History of Louisiana ( various editions, culminating in 1866, 4 vols., with a posthumous and further expanded edition in 1885 ).

Since 1885 this has occurred in 1886 – 1887, 1889 – 1890, 1916 – 1917, 1950, 1955, and 1974 – 1976, with the highest flood of in 1974.

* 1885 – North-West Rebellion: the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.