Competitions were held around tracks of varying lengths — the 1885 match between Axel Paulsen and Remke van der Zee was skated on a track of 6 / 7 mile ( 1400 metres )— but the 400 metre track was standardised by the ISU in 1892, along with the standard distances for world championships, 500 m, 1500 m, 5000 m and 10, 000 m. Skaters started in pairs, each to their own lane, and changed lanes for every lap to ensure that each skater completed the same distance.

( Galileo Ferraris independently reached the same concept in 1885 ).

* 1885 – 1888 – Sir Richard Francis Burton publishes an English translation from several sources ( largely the same as Payne ).

These same dinoflagellates were first defined by Otto Bütschli in 1885 as the flagellate order Dinoflagellida.

This gave socialising a cosmopolitan flavour: ' Russia, Sweden, England, Austria, Germany, France, Australia and the United States were represented at our table, all as one large family, and striving towards the same goal ,' the painter Annie Goater penned in 1885 in an essay on her recent experiences at one French colony.

In March 1885, Riel, Gabriel Dumont, Honoré Jackson ( a. k. a. Will Jackson ), and others set up the Provisional Government of Saskatchewan, believing that they could influence the federal government in the same way as they had in 1869.

A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year.

The Republican-controlled U. S. Congress did not forget this: when Stevenson was nominated for a federal judgeship, he was defeated for confirmation by the same people who never forgot his 1885 purge.

A county constituency of the same name was established by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, electing one MP by the first past the post voting system.

Henry County voters decided in the 1879 and 1885 court house site elections not to locate a court house on the public square, Henry has been Alabama's only county with three court houses at the same time.

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.

The " Voltaire " was at the Academy of 1883 ; it was followed, in 1884, by the " Marriage de convenance ", perhaps the most popular of all Orchardson's pictures ; in 1885, by " The Salon of Madame Récamier "; in 1886, by " After ", the sequel to the " Marriage de convenance ", and " A Tender Chord ", one of his most exquisite productions ; in 1887, by " The First Cloud "; in 1888, by " Her Mother's Voice "; and in 1889, by " The Young Duke ", a canvas on which he returned to much the same pictorial scheme as that of the " Voltaire ".

His subsequent works of the same kind — Uarda ( 1877 ), Homo sum ( 1878 ), Die Schwestern ( 1880 ), Der Kaiser ( 1881 ), of which the scene is laid in Egypt at the time of Hadrian, Serapis ( 1885 ), Die Nilbraut ( 1887 ), and Kleopatra ( 1894 ), were also well received, and did much to make the public familiar with the discoveries of Egyptologists.

He studied at the St. Petersburg art academy between 1883 and 1885, the same school at which Albert Edelfelt had studied.

Bernays has proved at the same time that the text has been confused through wrong pagination, and he has cleverly restored it (" Gesammelte Abhandlungen ," 1885, i. 283-290 ; " Abhandlung der Berliner Akademie ," 1876, Philosophical-Historical Division, pp. 209 – 278 ; ib.

It is true that in the Riksdag of 1882 the commercial treaty with France was renewed, but since 1885 the protectionist party was prepared to begin the combat, and a duty on barley, which had been proposed in the Riksdag of the same year, was rejected by only a slight majority.

The Canadian Post Office refused to accept the name Lethbridge for the community until 1885 because there was another town with the same name in the Dominion of Canada.

The start of Tin Pan Alley is usually dated to about 1885, when a number of music publishers set up shop in the same district of Manhattan.

In 1885 he was made Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under William Ewart Gladstone, but he had to leave office after the electoral defeat the same year.

He had stood against the same candidate at the 1885 general election, in which he was defeated by over 1100 votes.

* In volume iv of his Collection of Old English Plays ( 1885 ), A. H. Bullen printed for the first time a comedy by Heywood, The Captives, or The Lost Recovered ( licensed 1624 ), and in volume ii of the same series, Dicke of Devonshire, which he tentatively assigns to the same hand

In the autumn election of 1885 he contested Birmingham Central against John Bright, and though defeated here, was at the same time returned by a very large majority for South Paddington.

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.

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.

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

In 1885, British claims to a West African sphere of influence received international recognition ; and in the following year, the Royal Niger Company was chartered under the leadership of Sir George Taubman Goldie.

Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.

* August 15 – Edna Ferber, American novelist ( d. 1968 ) other sources give year of her birth as 1885

The general result for an inner product space was obtained by Schwarz in the year 1885.

When his involvement with hypnosis waned as a result of failure to establish professional acceptance, he turned to the study of development spurred on by the birth of his two daughters, Marguerite and Armande ( born in 1885 and 1887, respectively ), calling Armande a subjectivist and Marguerite an objectivist, and developing the concepts of introspection and externospection in an anticipation of Carl Jung's psychological types. Ellenberger, p. 702-3 In the 21 year period following his shift in career interests, Binet " published more than 200 books, articles, and reviews in what now would be called experimental, developmental, educational, social, and differential psychology " ( Siegler, 1992 ).

On 13 May 2010, the official crest for the 125th year anniversary was released: " The black outline and halo feature will now appear in gold, whilst the all important years 1885 and 2010 are scripted either side of the shield, with the figure 125 replacing the ball ".

In January 1885, Collier, Graham, and Heald made a map of Blocks K, L and M of the Elsinore Area, recording the maps with San Diego County in October of that year.

* Madison R. Lay ( 1864 – 1930 ), an Ashland native and the father of the educators Orie Lay and Dovie Lillias Lay Dupree, was among the first class of students enrolled in the Louisiana Normal School, located in Natchitoches, in its inaugural year of 1885.

In the year 1885 the school caught fire, and much refurbishing was done, with the addition of two new wings.

By 1885 he was farming of what later would become eastern Hughes County, and was enumerated in the Choctaw Nation census of that year.

Iaeger was incorporated in 1917 and named for Colonel William G. W. Iaeger, whose son, Dr. William R. Iaeger, had a plat of the present town made about the year 1885.

Mexican newspaper articles mention Cajemé's son fighting along-side his father in the year 1885.

In 1885, Lord Salisbury appointed Balfour as President of the Local Government Board ; the following year he became Secretary for Scotland, with a seat in the cabinet.

In 1885, while in the orchestra of the Grand Theatre, Lincke fell in love with the 16-year-old soubrette Anna Mueller, whom he married a year later.

Parnell choose him unwisely for South Londonderry in 1885, which Ulster seat he only held for a year.

Parliament passed the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act, raising the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen in that year.

Burne-Jones was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1885, and the following year he exhibited ( for the only time ) at the Academy, showing The Depths of the Sea, a painting of a mermaid carrying down with her a youth whom she has unconsciously drowned in the impetuosity of her love.

The following year 1885, saw it taking part in the Nile Expedition and fighting at Kirbekan and Abu Klea.