The Wabash Railroad strike in 1885 was also a significant success, as Powderly finally supported what became a successful strike on Jay Gould's Wabash Line.

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.

Indeed, Scrooge had supported the castle financially for many years prior, enabling the McDuck family to reoccupy it in 1885.

Parnell at first supported a Conservative government-they were still the smaller party after the elections-but after renewed agrarian distress arose when agricultural prices fell and unrest developed during 1885, Lord Salisbury ’ s Conservative government announced coercion measures in January 1886.

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

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

In 1885 Kellys described the school as an " elementary School ( mixed ), built in 1871, at a cost of £ 1, 200, for 120 children, with an average attendance of 112 ; & supported by voluntary subscriptions, school pence & government grant.

The authority of the nine kingdoms ( Kihanja, Karagwe, Kiziba, Misenye, Bugabo, Kyamtwara, Ihangiro, Bukara and Biharamulo ) were diminished when Germans colonized Tanganyika in 1885 and supported the Haya, the ethnic group of Bukoba and Muleba Districts over the other districts.

He supported the party nominee, Grover Cleveland, and was appointed Ambassador to Japan in 1885 after Cleveland won the presidency.

The French defeat at Bang Bo on 24 March 1885 shook the nerve of several French politicians who had earlier supported France's war against China.

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.

* 1881 – 1885: Stefan Drzewiecki of Podolia, Russian Empire finishes his submarine-building project ( which had begun in 1879 ).

The work includes two themes from Mahler's song cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ( 1883 – 1885 ), and the available evidence also seems to indicate that Mahler recycled music from his abandoned opera project Rübezahl.

The project was continued by the Meiji government, and the area was designated a ranch area for breeding cavalry horses by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1885.

In 1885 the city of Ghent bought the castle and started a renovation project.

Richardson had won the selection process in 1885 and nearly finalized the work, but after his death, his aforementioned successors completed the project.

However, Schultze withdrew from the project in 1885.

On December 19, 1906, the Halifax and Southwestern Railway opened between Halifax and Yarmouth, finishing a project that had begun in 1885, and bringing more reliable land transport to the region.

Between 1885 and 1887 the company had built the Maria Pia Bridge over the Douro at Porto, and when it was proposed to construct a railway between Marvejols and Neussargues in the Cantal department the work of constructing a viaduct to cross the River Truyère was given to Eiffel without the usual process of competitive tendering at the recommendation of the engineers of the state Highways Department since the technical problems involved were similar to those of the Maria Pia Bridge ; indeed, it was Eiffel & Cie's success with this project that had led to the proposal for a viaduct at Garabit.

The station was opened in 1885 as part of the Victorian expansion of dormitory suburbs, and was one of the stations included in the Metro-land project in the early 20th century.

He introduced to his denomination the scholarly methods of the new German theology of the day — not alone by his translation with Charles E. Blumenthal of Neander's Life of Christ ( 1847 ), and of Félix Bungener's History of the Council of Trent ( 1855 ), but by his great project, McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature ( 10 vols., 1867 – 1881 ; Supplement, 2 vols., 1885 – 1887 ), in the editing of which he was associated with Dr James Strong ( 1822 – 1894 ), professor of exegetical theology in the Drew Theological Seminary from 1868 to 1893, and the sole editor of the last six volumes of the Cyclopaedia and of the supplement.

Two Acts of the Bermudian Parliament authorised the creation in 1885 of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps and the Bermuda Militia Artillery, and the Princess project was allowed to move forward.

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.

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.

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

The credit for detecting its value belongs to Gaston Paris, although his edition ( 1897 ) was partially anticipated by the editors of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, who published some selections in the twenty-seventh volume of their Scriptores ( 1885 ).

To secure local interest, in 1885, he gave $ 500, 000 to Pittsburgh for a public library, and in 1886, he gave $ 250, 000 to Allegheny City for a music hall and library ; and $ 250, 000 to Edinburgh for a free library.

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.

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.

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.

In the 1885 general election this party won the balance of power in the House of Commons, and demanded Irish Home Rule as the price of support for a continued Gladstone ministry.

* John Parkinson ( 1885 – 1976 ), known for Wolff – Parkinson – White syndrome

In 1885, an investigation by the Allison Commission exonerated Peirce, but led to the dismissal of Superintendent Julius Hilgard and several other Coast Survey employees for misuse of public funds.

Special censuses for Copenhagen were taken in 1885 and 1895.

In the United States, in 1885, the chemist Russell S. Penniman invented " ammonium dynamite ", a form of explosive that used ammonium nitrate as a substitute for the more costly nitroglycerin.

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.

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.

The Ottoman state maintained control over much of the northern coastal areas for nearly three hundred years, leaving their possessions ( the province of Habesh ), to their Egyptian heirs in 1865 before being given to the Italians in 1885.

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.

The divorce was finalized in 1885 after William sued Anna for lack of physical affection.

In 1885, to get rid of habitual criminals and to increase the number of colonists, the French Parliament passed a law that anyone, male or female, who had more than three sentences for theft of more than three months each, would be sent to French Guiana as a " relégué.

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.

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.