Unabridged and unexpurgated translations were made, first by John Payne, under the title The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night ( 1882, nine volumes ), and then by Sir Richard Francis Burton, entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night ( 1885, ten volumes ) – the latter was, according to some assessments, partially based on the former, leading to charges of plagiarism.

In 1885, Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler developed a float carburetor for their engine based on the atomizer nozzle.

The design was based on the original St. Mary's YMA kit used in 1885 and featured the new anniversary crest as well being without a sponsor's logo.

Since the club's inception in 1885, it has been based at the Richmond Cricket Ground ( better known as the Punt Road Oval ), just a few hundred metres to the east of the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ).

Margate City was originally incorporated as the borough of South Atlantic City by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on September 7, 1885, from portions of Egg Harbor Township, based on the results of a referendum held on August 1, 1885.

What is now Belmar was originally incorporated as Ocean Beach borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 9, 1885, from portions of Wall Township, based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier.

Toad Ramsey, a pitcher from 1885 – 1890, is credited in some later sources with being the first knuckleballer, apparently based primarily on accounts of how he gripped the ball ; however, based on more contemporary descriptions of his pitch as an " immense drop ball ", it may be that his pitch was a form of knuckle curve.

It is based on the music and text of the song " Gorda Stara Planina " by Tsvetan Radoslavov, written and composed as he left to fight in the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885.

Another descendant of Heyward was DuBose Heyward ( 1885 – 1940 ), a poet, novelist and playwright who influenced the Southern Renaissance and is most well known for the 1925 novel and 1927 play Porgy, and the libretto to the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin and based on the play.

In October 1885, the sentence was reversed by the Colorado Supreme Court as being based on an ex post facto law.

In 1885, Stanley built the first practical alternating current device based on Lucien Gaulard and John Dixon Gibbs ' idea.

In his philosophical novel Marius the Epicurean ( 1885 ), an extended imaginary portrait set in the Rome of the Antonines, which Pater believed had parallels with his own century, he examines the " sensations and ideas " of a young Roman of integrity, who pursues an ideal of the " aesthetic " life – a life based on αίσθησις, perception – tempered by asceticism.

The Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244, R106, (,, ) is a set of 19 piano pieces based on Hungarian folk themes, composed by Franz Liszt during 1846-1853, and later in 1882 and 1885.

* Children's author Susan Lendroth wrote a picture book, " Calico Dorsey, Mail Dog of the Mining Camps ," based on the true story of a dog that carried mail between Calico and East Calico in 1885.

For example, the crocodile-like archosaurian reptile Parasuchus hislopi Lydekker, 1885 was described based on a premaxillary rostrum ( part of the snout ), but this is no longer sufficient to distinguish Parasuchus from its close relatives.

* Monmouthshire ( UK Parliament constituency ), a parliamentary constituency based on the historic county ( 1536 – 1885 )

Three years later, they brought out Testimony: The United States, 1885 – 1890: Recitative, the first installment of a long work based on court records covering the period 1855 to 1915.

Morton, a cannery and food processing plant in Millwall on the Isle of Dogs in 1885, was based at The Den in Cold Blow Lane from 1910 to 1993.

The Browns were champions of the American Association, one of two major leagues in baseball, with a claim to the championship of the United States or the world based on the disputed 1885 World Series contest with regional rival Chicago, and the undisputed 1886 winner.

Other sport clubs based in Clydebank are: the Clydesdale Harriers, founded in 1885 as Scotland's first amateur open athletics club ; and the Lomond Roads Cycling Club.

His publication in 1885 of The Religious Aspect of Philosophy, and in 1892 of The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, both based on Harvard lectures, secured his place in the philosophical world.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna ( also called Gortyn ).

After appeals by the Batswana leaders Khama III, Bathoen and Sebele for assistance, the British Government on 31 March 1885 put " Bechuanaland " under its protection.

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

Lured by Austria-Hungary's promises for territorial gains from Bulgaria ( in return for concessions in the Western Balkans ), Milan IV declared war on Bulgaria on 14 November 1885.

Nigeria relied largely on Anglo-German correspondence dating from 1885 as well as treaties between the colonial powers and the indigenous rulers in the area, particularly the 1884 Treaty of Protection.

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.

She married David on September 23, 1885, in Lecompton, Kansas, on the campus of their alma mater, Lane University.

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.

* Sabin Point, Narragansett Bay ( 1885 ; Oil on canvas ; Gardner House, Providence, Rhode Island )

* Palmer River ( 1885 ; Oil on canvas ; Private Collection )

* Ezra Abbot & J. Rendel Harris, Notes on Scriveners ' " Plain introduction to the criticism of the New Testament ," 3rd edition ( 1885 )

Hermann Ebbinghaus ran a limited, incomplete study on himself and published his hypothesis in 1885 as Über das Gedächtnis ( later translated into English as Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology ).

The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.

In 1885, after Barbados left the British Windward Islands, the capital of the colonial confederation was moved from Bridgetown to St. George on Grenada.

Barrios had ambitions of reuniting Central America and took the country to war in an unsuccessful attempt to attain this, losing his life on the battlefield in 1885 against forces in El Salvador.

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.

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.

* 1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North-West Mounted Police.

* 1885 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.