Following his successful invention of the telephone and being relatively wealthy, Bell acquired land near Baddeck in 1885, largely due to surroundings reminiscent of his early years in Scotland.

In the early years other teams from Wales, Ireland and Scotland also took part in the competition, with Glasgow side Queen's Park losing the final to Blackburn Rovers in 1884 and 1885 before being barred from entering by the Scottish Football Association.

* September 28 – Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine, which was propelled by an early form of air-independent propulsion ( d. 1885 ).

* Guglielmo Ratcliff ( 16 February 1895 Teatro alla Scala, Milan ), composed between 1885 and the early 1890s-libretto

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( 30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972 ) was an American expatriate poet, critic and a major figure of the early modernist movement.

As early as 1885 – 1890 he published several notable papers on the oxides of nitrogen, developing the skills that he would need for his subsequent work.

* An early Rudyard Kipling story has the title The Phantom Rickshaw ( 1885 ).

Seat belts were invented by George Cayley in the early 19th century, though Edward J. Claghorn of New York, was granted the first patent (, on February 10, 1885 for a safety belt ).

The Battle of Fish Creek National Historic Site, the name has been changed to Tourond's Coulee / Fish Creek National Historic Site to preserve the battlefield of April 24, 1885, at la coulée des Tourond, Madame Tourond ’ s home, early Red River cart Fish Creek Trail and the site of Middleton ’ s camp and graveyard.

Etymologically, according to the OED, the word matriarchy is first attested in 1885, building on an earlier matriarch, formed in analogy to patriarch, already in use in the early 17th century.

The United States WCTU formed a " Department for the Overthrow of the Tobacco Habit " as early as 1885 and frequently published anti-tobacco articles in the 1880s.

It was founded in 1885 and named for Elnora Griffith, wife of an early merchant.

Named after an early settler, Henry Haub, the town was legally platted in 1885 and incorporated in 1913.

The years 1885, ' 86, ' 87, ' 88 and the first half of 1889, were boom times and growing years for early day Ulysses ; The second half of 1889 brought drought, and the boom began to fade.

Morrill Township was organized in 1881 as Oakwood Township but renamed in 1885 after Albert A. Morill, an early settler.

There are reports of a homestead and orchard immediately north of Bigfork as early as 1885.

The Meet, as it is known locally, has grown from the North East Cyclists Meet dating back to 1885 and since the early 1900s the town has staged a carnival and grand procession through the town centre on the bank holiday Monday.

Richburg was served ( 1881 – 1890 and c. 1906-1946 ) by the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad ( PS & N ) and predecessors, and ( 1881 – 1885 ) by the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba Railroad System ( BE & C ) The early PS & N predecessors and the BE & C were 36 " narrow-gauge railroads while the PS & N was a standard-gauge railroad.

* Aaron Stafford ( 1787 – 1885 ), early settler, farmer, state legislator, last surviving American officer of the War of 1812.

As of 1885, Selden was home to 88 residents and a Presbyterian church ( built in 1857 ), and noted for producing melons and early garden vegetables from its farms.

In the early spring of 1885, Mr. Beard entered into an agreement with the promoters of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company, then extending its line from Memphis, Tennessee, to Amarillo, Texas, to build through his farm, and in consideration he gave the railway company one-half his claim of one hundred and sixty acres.

Starting in the early 1920s, the Scranton Button Company ( founded in 1885 and a major maker of shellac buttons ) became one of the primary makers of phonograph records.

A breaker sat on the hill just below the mine as early as 1885.

Organised Australian rules football was first played in Fremantle in the early 1880s with the Fremantle Football Club, a founding member of the West Australian Football Association in 1885.

In the early eighteenth century this fantastic city, then the size of London, started to decline.

His early poems and some of his prose prolusions speak of wanderings in the city and the neighboring country that may be extended to Cambridge and its surrounding countryside.

He flew over Rome one day during the early days of Mussolini and scattered leaflets over the city, denouncing the Fascists.

It will early know why the party won't win back city votes.

If the city council fails to consider appointment of a full-time CD director, Mr. Hawksley said, then he plans to call a meeting early in September so that a civil defense organization will be developed locally.

She lived alone in the older part of the city, in one of those renovated houses whose brick facade some early settler had constructed.

The area's industrial history is reflected in dozens of 19th-and early 20th-century manufacturing sites in the city.

It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.

Ahhiya ( wa ) has been identified with the Achaeans of the Trojan War and the city of Wilusa with the legendary city of Troy ( note the similarity with early Greek Wilion, later Ilion, the name of the acropolis of Troy ).

These influences washed into municipal politics during the early and mid-1970s when three members of the Human Rights Party ( HRP ) won city council seats on the strength of the student vote.

However, the late 1950s and early 1960s saw the onset of a lasting transformation of the city by the tourist industry.

This is the only evidence so far of a Roman city continuous with the early Christian one.

As the chief port of north-west Asia Minor, the place prospered greatly in Roman times, becoming a " free and autonomous city " as early as 188 BC, and the existing remains sufficiently attest its former importance.

The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.

In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago to take advantage of a new opportunity to make money smuggling illegal alcoholic beverages into the city during Prohibition.

St Athanasius seems to have been brought early in life under the immediate supervision of the ecclesiastical authorities of his native city.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

Bursa became the first major capital city of the early Ottoman Empire following its capture from the Byzantines in 1326.

The city has traditionally been a pole of attraction, and was a major center for refugees from various ethnic backgrounds who immigrated to Anatolia from the Balkans during the loss of the Ottoman territories in Europe between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Though associated with the Sassanid Persians and with Mithradates VI Eupator ( who for a time incorporated the city into his empire ), by the late Hellenistic or early Roman period, the star and crescent motif had been associated to some degree with Byzantium.

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

As early as 1930, the city's Planning Board was recommending a raised express highway running north-south through the downtown district in order to draw traffic off the city streets.

The city was conquered by the Visigoths in the early 5th century, becoming for a few years the capital of all Hispania.

In the early 1970s, however, the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau ( now NYC & Company, the official marketing and tourism organization for New York City ), under the leadership of its president, Charles Gillett, began promoting " the Big Apple " for the city.