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.

* Gideon S. Ives 1885 ( son-in-law of Governor Henry Swift ; served as lieutenant governor 1891-1893 )

He became private and military secretary with the honorary rank of colonel on the governor ’ s staff the same year, and continued in his service after Cleveland became president in 1885.

By proclamation of the governor, the official move took place eight years later, and in 1885 the capital moved from Wheeling to Charleston, where it has remained.

Hanna was a major campaign adviser and fundraiser for Foraker's successful runs for governor in 1885 and 1887.

* Charles George Gordon ( 1833 – 1885 ), British army officer and colonial governor

In 1885 Chlodwig was chosen to succeed Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel as governor of Alsace-Lorraine, incorporated after the 1870 war against France.

González was also governor of Michoacán ( 1877 ) and Guanajuato ( 1885 ) and served as Secretary of National Defense from 1878 to 1879.

Morris served as governor of the Newfoundland Savings Bank from 1889 to 1913 and was elected to the Newfoundland House of Assembly in 1885 as an independent.

On January 26, 1885, his forces which were called Dervishes, captured Khartoum and killed its British governor, General Charles George Gordon.

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.

Faced with repeated attacks by the ǀKhowesin, a subtribe of the Khoikhoi under Hendrik Witbooi, he signed a protection treaty with Imperial Germany's colonial governor Göring on 21 October 1885 but did not cede the land of the Herero.

Henry Harrison Markham ( November 16, 1840 – October 9, 1923 ) was a United States Representative from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1887 and the 18th governor of California from January 8, 1891 until January 11, 1895.

He became private and military secretary with the honorary rank of colonel on the governor ’ s staff the same year, and continued in his service after Cleveland became president in 1885.

Upon retirement from the Senate, Ross went back into the newspaper business briefly, launching a publication in Coffeyville, Kan. From 1885 to 1889, he served as governor of New Mexico Territory, appointed by President Grover Cleveland.

* Alfred P. Swineford, district governor 1885 – 1889

Elected governor in 1884, he assumed office on January 7, 1885.

McLane only served as governor for slightly over a year, from January 8, 1884 until his resignation on March 27, 1885, having been appointed by President Grover Cleveland as United States Minister Plenipotentiary to France.

In 1885 the Democrat Fitzhugh Lee was elected governor.

A member of the Republican Party, he served as the fourth Governor of Colorado, from January 1885 to January 1887, with the nickname of the " farmer governor ".

In 1885, he was a member of the board of visitors of West Point, and from 1886 to 1890 was governor of Virginia.

From 1885 to 1886, he was the governor of Paraná.

In 1882 he was appointed as mutasarrıf of Vidin, then he was appointed as governor of Sivas, Aidin ( 1885 ) and Monastir ( 1887 ).

Sir George William Des Vœux, GCMG ( 22 September 1834 – 15 December 1909 ) was a British colonial governor who served as Governor of Fiji ( 1880 – 1885 ), Newfoundland ( 1886 – 1887 ), and Hong Kong ( 1887 – 1891 ).

The vital meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885, W M C Hickson served as the chairman, and other notables in attendance included all the big sugar mill owners of that time, W G Farquhar, F L Nott, S McDougall, T Penny, S H Bravo and A H Young, all to become the first directors of the Company.

" In a review of H. D. Traill's analysis of Coleridge in the " English Men of Letters ", an anonymous reviewer wrote in 1885 Westminster Review: " Of ' Kubla Khan ,' Mr. Traill writes: ' As to the wild dream-poem ' Kubla Khan ,' it is hardly more than a psychologial curiosity, and only that perhaps in respect of the completeness of its metrical form.

Next year, H. G. Apenzeller from North Methodist church, who arrived 5 April 1885, started to evangelize with Dr. Scranton and his mother.

* Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ), anthology of work by D. H. Lawrence

* 1885 – D. H. Lawrence, English novelist ( d. 1930 )

* 1883 – 1885: Josiah H. L. Tuck, an American inventor, works in his own submarine designs.

* March 2 – D. H. Lawrence, English writer ( Lady Chatterley's Lover ) ( b. 1885 )

* An Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence, 1885 – 1930 ( 1950 ) also as D. H. Lawrence: Portrait of a Genius But.

* The History of Sir Richard Whittington by T. H. ( 1885 ), from Project Gutenberg

From Ritzville's designation as county seat in 1884 until 1892, courts were briefly held in rented space before the county purchased a building from N. H. Greene in 1885.

* Glover H. Cary ( 1885 – 1936 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Kentucky

Philip Clayton ( 1885 – 1972 ), Anglican clergyman, army chaplain and founder of Toc H

In 1885 E. H. Naville identified Goshen as the 20th nome of Egypt, located in the eastern Delta, and known as " Gesem " or " Kesem " during the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt ( 672-525 BC ).

Inspired by the area and artists, D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ) painted while in Taos, signing his work " Lorenzo "; Nine of his paintings are displayed at La Fonda Hotel on the Taos Plaza.

The tradition died out in the 1830s, but was revived in 1885 by the new vicar, W. H. Seddon, who mistakenly believed that the festival had been ancient in origin.

King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard's 1885 adventure novel, has been adapted to the following films:

King Solomon's Mines ( 1885 ) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard.

* Blaze de Bury, H. ( 1885 ).

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 ).

D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ), author, lived at 12 Colworth Road, Addiscombe from 1908 to 1912 and was a teacher at Davidson Road School for some time.

Bingham County was created January 13, 1885, and named after Henry H. Bingham, a congressman from Pennsylvania and friend of William Bunn, Idaho's Territorial Governor.