Alcott himself moved out of Concord for his final years, settling at 10 Louisburg Square in Boston beginning in 1885.

In 1885, at the age of eight, he succeeded his father as Imam of the Shi ' a Isma ' ili Muslims.

In November 1885, Alfonso died, just short of his 28th birthday, at the Royal Palace of El Pardo.

Two Aegean vases were found at Sidon in 1885, and many fragments of Aegean and especially Cypriot pottery have been found during recent excavations of sites in Philistia by the Palestine Fund.

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.

Since 1885, when the Duke of Montrose constructed a road over the eastern shoulder of Craigmore to join the older road at the entrance of the Trossachs pass, Aberfoyle has become the alternative route to the Trossachs and Loch Katrine ; this road, known as the Duke's Road or Duke's Pass, was opened to the public in 1931 when the Forestry Commission acquired the land.

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.

His mother and father had married four years previously, at which time Chaplin Sr. became the legal carer of Hannah's illegitimate son, Sydney John ( 1885 – 1965 ).

Image: Claude Monet The Cliffs at Etretat. jpg | The Cliffs at Etretat, 1885, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

* 1885 – First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas ( United States ).

He passed out of Britannia eighteenth out of the thirty-three remaining cadets at the end of 1885.

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

After being sent home for two-and-a-half years, he was readmitted to the Conservatoire at the end of 1885, but was unable to make a much more favourable impression on his teachers than he had before, and, as a result, resolved to take up military service a year later.

Two Foreign Legion companies led the defence at the celebrated Siege of Tuyên Quang ( 24 November 1884 to 3 March 1885 ).

In January 1885 the Foreign Legion's 4th Battalion ( chef de bataillon Vitalis ) was deployed to the French bridgehead at Keelung ( Jilong ) in Formosa ( Taiwan ), where it took part in the later battles of the Keelung Campaign.

The design was exhibited at the Exhibition of Decorative Arts in the autumn of 1884, and on 30 March 1885 Eiffel read a paper on the project to the Société des Ingiénieurs Civils.

A modicum of stability and economic progress was restored to Spain during Alfonso XII's rule ( 1874 – 1885 ), although progress was cut short by his sudden death at age 28.

In 1885, the same year that he published his monumental work, Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology, he was made a professor at the University of Berlin, most likely in recognition of this publication.

In 1885, he became professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, then in 1891 he was made Honorary Professor of the medical faculty and Director of the new Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases ( eventually renamed as the Robert Koch Institute ), a position from which he resigned in 1904.

Between 1884 and 1885, European nations met at the Berlin West Africa Conference to discuss the partitioning of Africa.

Lord Aberdare, who in 1885 was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, presided over several Royal Commissions at different times.

Claude Monet, The Cliff at Étretat after the Storm, 1885, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Crowds usually cheered Alexandra rapturously, but during a visit to Ireland in 1885, she suffered a rare moment of public hostility when visiting the City of Cork, a hotbed of Irish nationalism.

Hardy Cross, 1885 – 1959, born in Nansemond County, Virginia, was a U. S. structural engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural calculation of large buildings.

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

But in 1885, when it had published 8 volumes and gotten only halfways ( A – K ), the publisher turned to the government for extra funding ; encyclopedias had become national monuments.

830 and was not rediscovered until 1885, when Ernst Dümmler identified a text in a manuscript in Vienna as the missing Libellus de adoranda cruce, which Einhard had dedicated to his pupil Lupus Servatus.

The Granville Municipality was formed in 1885 and the council carried on the local government of the area until 1948, when it became part of an enlarged City of Parramatta.

From the mid-century there were increasing calls for Home Rule for Scotland and when the Conservative Lord Salisbury became prime minister in 1885 he responded to pressure by reviving the post of Secretary of State for Scotland, which had been in abeyance since 1746.

Hastings returned two Members of Parliament from the 14th century until 1885 since when it has returned one.

In 1885, when Gandhi was 15, the couple's first child was born, but survived only a few days.

but these dreams were short lived when in the coup d ' état of 1885 the nephews of Jung Bahadur and Ranodip Singh ( the Shumshers J. B., S. J. B.

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.

Forced induction dates from the late 19th century, when Gottlieb Daimler patented the technique of using a gear-driven pump to force air into an internal combustion engine in 1885.

The first female student in Sweden was Betty Pettersson ( 1838 – 1885 ), who had already worked as a private tutor for several years when she took the " studentexamen " in 1871.

Even so, the practice continued until 1885, when newly elected Grover Cleveland arranged for a presidential review of the troops from a grandstand in front of the White House instead of the traditional open house.

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

The first black professional baseball team was formed in 1885 when the Babylon Black Panthers, formed by waiters and porters from the Argyle Hotel in Babylon, New York were spotted by a white businessman from Trenton, New Jersey, Walter S. Cook.

Many of the herds were decimated in the winter of 1885, with some losing as many as three-quarters of all animals when they could not find a way around the fence.

After his death, infighting and civil war eroded the power of the shabdrung for the next 200 years when in 1885, Ugyen Wangchuck was able to consolidate power and cultivated closer ties with the British in India.

His reign was cut short when he died in 1885 at the age of twenty-eight.

One of the earliest claims comes from Charlie Nagreen, when in 1885, sold a meatball between two slices of bread at the Seymour Fair now called the

Nagreen was fifteen when he reportedly made sandwiches out of meatballs that he was selling at the 1885 Seymour Fair ( now the Outagamie County Fair ), so that customers could eat while walking.

Preservationists ' efforts were rewarded on April 30, 1885, when Governor David B. Hill signed legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park.

Bülow was very fond of the young man and decided that Strauss should be his successor as conductor of the Meiningen orchestra when Bülow resigned in 1885.